Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session
Relating to: collective bargaining for public safety employees employed by a city of the first class. (FE)
Collective bargaining Medical service Milwaukee — Fire department Milwaukee — Police Sheriff
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan 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.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs