Gov. Code, § 3599.51

The Legislature finds and declares that it is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between each employer and its employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving disputes regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment between the employer and public employee organizations. It is also the purpose of this chapter to promote the improvement of personnel management and employer-employee relations within the employer by providing a uniform basis for recognizing the right of its employees to join organizations of their own choosing and be represented by those organizations in their employment relations with their employer. It is further the purpose of this chapter, in order to foster peaceful employer-employee relations, to allow the employees to select one employee organization as the exclusive representative of the employees in an appropriate unit and to permit the exclusive representative to receive financial support from those employees who receive the benefits of this representation.