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CMH&RAC:cjs:jm
2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
November 1, 2013 - Introduced by Senators Carpenter and L. Taylor. Referred to
Committee on Judiciary and Labor.
SB381,1,5 1An Act to repeal 111.70 (4) (jm); to consolidate, renumber and amend 111.70
2(1) (mm) (intro.), 1. and 2.; and to amend 40.05 (1) (b) 2. a., 40.05 (1) (b) 2. c.,
340.51 (7) (b) 1., 63.43 (3), 111.70 (1) (a), 111.70 (8) (a), 111.70 (9), 111.71 (2),
4111.77 (8) (b) and 164.04 of the statutes; relating to: collective bargaining for
5public safety employees employed by a city of the first class.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, municipal public safety employees and transit employees
may bargain collectively over wages, hours, and conditions of employment and
municipal employees who are neither public safety employees nor transit employees
(general employees) may bargain collectively over only an annual percentage wage
increase that does not exceed the annual percentage increase in the consumer price
index. Under this bill, public safety employees who are employed by a city of the first
class (currently only Milwaukee) may bargain collectively over only an annual
percentage wage increase that does not exceed the annual percentage increase in the
consumer price index. This bill also makes these public safety workers subject to
other provisions covering general employees in current law, including an annual
certification election requirement, a limit on the term of a collective bargaining
agreement to one year with no extensions, a prohibition on salary deductions for
labor organization dues, and an ability to refrain from paying dues while remaining
a member of a collective bargaining unit.

For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB381,1 1Section 1. 40.05 (1) (b) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,2,102 40.05 (1) (b) 2. a. A municipal employer shall pay, on behalf of a nonrepresented
3law enforcement or fire fighting managerial employee or a nonrepresented
4managerial employee described in s. 111.70 (1) (mm) 2. who is an emergency medical
5service provider for emergency medical services departments
, who was initially
6employed by the municipal employer before July 1, 2011, the same contributions
7required by par. (a) that are paid by the municipal employer for represented law
8enforcement or, fire fighting, or emergency medical service personnel or personnel
9described in s. 111.70 (1) (mm) 2.
who were initially employed by the municipal
10employer before July 1, 2011.
SB381,2 11Section 2. 40.05 (1) (b) 2. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,3,212 40.05 (1) (b) 2. c. A municipal employer shall pay, on behalf of a represented
13law enforcement or fire fighting employee or employee described in s. 111.70 (1) (mm)
142. who is an emergency medical service provider for emergency medical services
15departments
, who was initially employed by the municipal employer before July 1,
162011, and who on or after July 1, 2011, became employed in a nonrepresented law
17enforcement or, fire fighting, or emergency medical service managerial position or
18nonrepresented managerial position described in s. 111.70 (1) (mm) 2.
with the same
19municipal employer, or a successor municipal employer in the event of a combined
20department that is created on or after July 1, 2011, the same contributions required
21by par. (a) that are paid by the employer for represented law enforcement or, fire

1fighting, or emergency medical service personnel or personnel described in s. 111.70
2(1) (mm) 2.
who were initially employed by a municipal employer before July 1, 2011.
SB381,3 3Section 3. 40.51 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,3,124 40.51 (7) (b) 1. A municipal employer shall pay, on behalf of a nonrepresented
5law enforcement or fire fighting managerial employee or a nonrepresented
6managerial employee described in s. 111.70 (1) (mm) 2. who is an emergency medical
7service provider for emergency medical services departments
, who was initially
8employed by the municipal employer before July 1, 2011, the same percentage under
9par. (a) that is paid by the municipal employer for represented law enforcement or,
10fire fighting, or emergency medical service personnel or personnel described in s.
11111.70 (1) (mm) 2.
who were initially employed by the municipal employer before July
121, 2011.
SB381,4 13Section 4. 63.43 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,3,2014 63.43 (3) If such city and a labor organization representing transit employees
15of, as defined in s. 111.70 (1) (p), employed by the city enter into a collective
16bargaining agreement under subch. IV of ch. 111, the agreement may provide that
17the provisions of that agreement relating to removal, discharge, suspension and
18reduction shall supersede this section with respect to employees covered by the
19agreement while the agreement is in effect. This subsection does not apply to any
20action under sub. (1) to suspend an employee with pay.
SB381,5 21Section 5. 111.70 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,4,1022 111.70 (1) (a) "Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual
23obligation of a municipal employer, through its officers and agents, and the
24representative of its municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit, to meet and
25confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with the intention of reaching an

1agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement, with respect to
2wages, hours, and conditions of employment for public safety employees or transit
3employees and with respect to wages for general municipal employees, and with
4respect to a requirement of the municipal employer for a municipal public safety
5employee to perform law enforcement and fire fighting services under s. 60.553,
661.66, or 62.13 (2e), except as provided in sub. (4) (mb) and (mc) and s. 40.81 (3) and
7except that a municipal employer shall not meet and confer with respect to any
8proposal to diminish or abridge the rights guaranteed to any public safety employees
9under ch. 164. Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement
10reached to a written and signed document.
SB381,6 11Section 6. 111.70 (1) (mm) (intro.), 1. and 2. of the statutes are consolidated,
12renumbered 111.70 (1) (mm) and amended to read:
SB381,4,2013 111.70 (1) (mm) "Public safety employee" means any a municipal employee who
14is employed in a position that, on July 1, 2011, is one of the following: 1. Classified
15classified as a protective occupation participant under any of the following: a.
16Section
s. 40.02 (48) (am) 9., 10., 13., 15., or 22. b. A or under a comparable provision
17that is comparable to a provision under subd. 1. a. that is in a county or city
18retirement system. 2. An or is an emergency medical service provider for emergency
19medical services departments, except that "public safety employee" does not mean
20a municipal employee who is employed by a 1st class city
.
SB381,7 21Section 7. 111.70 (4) (jm) of the statutes is repealed.
SB381,8 22Section 8. 111.70 (8) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,5,223 111.70 (8) (a) This section, except sub. (4) (cg) and (cm), applies to law
24enforcement supervisors employed by a 1st class city.
This section, except sub. (4)
25(cm) and (jm), applies to law enforcement supervisors employed by a county having

1a population of 500,000 or more. For purposes of such application, the terms
2"municipal employee" and "public safety employee" include such a supervisor.
SB381,9 3Section 9. 111.70 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,5,94 111.70 (9) Powers of chief of police. Nothing in s. 62.50 grants the chief of
5police in cities of the 1st class any authority which diminishes or in any other manner
6affects the rights of municipal employees who are members of a police department
7employed by a city of the 1st class under this section or under any collective
8bargaining agreement which is entered into between a city of the 1st class and a labor
9organization representing the members of its police department
.
SB381,10 10Section 10. 111.71 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,6,1911 111.71 (2) The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a
12complaint alleging that a prohibited practice has been committed under s. 111.70 (3).
13The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that the
14commission act as an arbitrator to resolve a dispute involving the interpretation or
15application of a collective bargaining agreement under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 2., (cg) 4., or
16(cm) 4. The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that
17the commission initiate fact-finding under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 3. The commission shall
18assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that the commission act as a
19mediator under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 1., (cg) 3., or (cm) 3. The commission shall assess and
20collect a filing fee for filing a request that the commission initiate compulsory, final
21and binding arbitration under s. 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. or (jm) or 111.77 (3). For the
22performance of commission actions under ss. 111.70 (4) (c) 1., 2. and 3., (cg) 3., 4., and
236., and (cm) 3. and 4., and (jm) and 111.77 (3), the commission shall require that the
24parties to the dispute equally share in the payment of the fee and, for the
25performance of commission actions involving a complaint alleging that a prohibited

1practice has been committed under s. 111.70 (3), the commission shall require that
2the party filing the complaint pay the entire fee. If any party has paid a filing fee
3requesting the commission to act as a mediator for a labor dispute and the parties
4do not enter into a voluntary settlement of the dispute, the commission may not
5subsequently assess or collect a filing fee to initiate fact-finding or arbitration to
6resolve the same labor dispute. If any request for the performance of commission
7actions concerns issues arising as a result of more than one unrelated event or
8occurrence, each such separate event or occurrence shall be treated as a separate
9request. The commission shall promulgate rules establishing a schedule of filing fees
10to be paid under this subsection. Fees required to be paid under this subsection shall
11be paid at the time of filing the complaint or the request for fact-finding, mediation
12or arbitration. A complaint or request for fact-finding, mediation or arbitration is
13not filed until the date such fee or fees are paid, except that the failure of the
14respondent party to pay the filing fee for having the commission initiate compulsory,
15final and binding arbitration under s. 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. or (jm) or 111.77 (3) may not
16prohibit the commission from initiating such arbitration. The commission may
17initiate collection proceedings against the respondent party for the payment of the
18filing fee. Fees collected under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation
19account under s. 20.425 (1) (i).
SB381,11 20Section 11. 111.77 (8) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,6,2321 111.77 (8) (b) This section shall not apply to public safety employees who are
22members of a police department employed by a 1st class city nor to any city, village
23or town having a population of less than 2,500.
SB381,12 24Section 12. 164.04 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB381,7,5
1164.04 Rights not to be diminished. The rights under this chapter shall not
2be diminished or abridged by any ordinance or provision of any collective bargaining
3agreement under ch. 111. These rights may be supplemented and expanded by
4ordinance or collective bargaining agreement in any manner not inconsistent with
5this chapter or with ch. 111.
SB381,13 6Section 13. Initial applicability.
SB381,7,107 (1) This act first applies to employees who are covered by a collective bargaining
8agreement under subchapter IV of chapter 111 of the statutes that contains
9provisions inconsistent with this act on the day on which the agreement expires or
10is terminated, extended, modified, or renewed, whichever occurs first.
SB381,7,1111 (End)
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