(a) 
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe has enacted and implemented this Labor Organizations and Collective Bargaining Law pursuant to its inherent sovereign authority.
(b) 
In providing for procedures, rights, and remedies for employers, employees, and labor organizations under this Law, including those afforded through actions in the Community Court, the Tribal Council has carefully considered (and continues to consider) the values and interests of the Tribe in order to establish fair processes, rights, and remedies for the parties and interests at stake. This has included careful consideration of, amongst other things, (A) the time, costs, and inconvenience of parties and witnesses involved in proceedings to resolve controversies or to establish rights and remedies under this Law; (B) the need to protect the governmental operations of the Tribe from undue burdens from litigation, while according fair treatment to employees within those operations; and (C) methods to resolve disputes through early settlement, including mediation.
(c) 
The integrity of this Law is threatened if parties bypass the procedures, rights, and remedies established herein and seek, instead, to invoke procedures or remedies outside of this Law for controversies that this Law is designed to address and resolve in accordance with the unique public policies of the Tribe. Investigations or proceedings directed at employers, apart from those provided for by this Law, which seek to address controversies or rights covered by this Law, require the expenditure of time and resources to the detriment of those involved and, in many instances, to the governmental operations of the Tribe. Such investigations or proceedings also threaten duplicative witness testimony and production of documents already available, or undertaken, pursuant to the provisions of this Law.
(Res. 11-A-015, 3/8/2011)
The purpose of this Chapter is to protect the integrity of the procedures, rights, and remedies established by this Law as described in the foregoing findings.
(Res. 11-A-015, 3/8/2011)
(a) 
Disclosures only with approval of Tribal Council. Except with the express, written approval of the Tribal Council, public employers are prohibited from giving testimony or witness statements of any kind or producing documents or other information of any kind in response to requests or subpoenas issued by outside authorities, other than those authorities expressly granted powers under this Law, engaged in investigations or proceedings on behalf of current or former public employees or any labor organization, when such employees or labor organizations have failed to exhaust their remedies under this Law.
(b) 
Examples of failure to exhaust remedies. For the purposes of subsection (a), public employees or labor organizations shall be deemed to have “failed to exhaust their remedies under this Law” if they have failed to exhaust the procedures, rights, remedies, and appeals (including opportunities to challenge jurisdiction) available under this Law or the procedures of the Community Court, and have, instead, invoked investigations or proceedings outside of those authorized by this Law to (i) address controversies or rights covered by this Law, such as unfair labor practices governed by sections 27.03.07 and 27.03.08 or (ii) challenge the assertion of jurisdiction under this Law.
(Res. 11-A-015, 3/8/2011)