Amendment AA6-ASA2-AB50

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5,10 “Section 14. 20.425 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,5,23 20.425 (1) (i) Fees, collective bargaining training, publications, and appeals. The amounts in the schedule for the performance of fact-finding, mediation, certification, and arbitration functions, for the provision of copies of transcripts, for the cost of operating training programs under ss. 111.09 (3), 111.71 (5m), and 111.94 (3), for the preparation of publications, transcripts, reports, and other copied material, and for costs related to conducting appeals under s. 230.45. All moneys received under ss. 111.09 (1) and (2), 111.70 (4) (d) 3. b., 111.71 (1) and (2), 111.83 (3) (b), 111.94 (1) and (2), and 230.45 (3), all moneys received from arbitrators and arbitration panel members, and individuals who are interested in serving in such positions, and from individuals and organizations who participate in other collective bargaining training programs conducted by the commission, and all moneys received from the sale of publications, transcripts, reports, and other copied material shall be credited to this appropriation account.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,15 Section 15. 20.505 (1) (ks) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,6,8 20.505 (1) (ks) Collective bargaining grievance arbitrations. The amounts in the schedule for the payment of the state’s share of costs related to collective bargaining grievance arbitrations under s. 111.86. All moneys received from state agencies or authorities for the purpose of reimbursing the state’s share of the costs related to grievance arbitrations under s. 111.86 and to reimburse the state’s share of costs for training related to grievance arbitrations shall be credited to this appropriation account.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16 Section 16. 20.921 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,6,12 20.921 (1) (a) 2. If the state employee is a public safety employee under s. 111.81 (15r) or is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker under s. 111.81 (9b), payment of dues to employee organizations.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,17 Section 17. 40.51 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,7,2 40.51 (7) (a) Any employer, other than the state, including an employer that is not a participating employer, may offer to all of its employees a health care coverage plan through a program offered by the group insurance board. Notwithstanding sub. (2) and ss. 40.05 (4) and 40.52 (1), the department may by rule establish different eligibility standards or contribution requirements for such employees and employers. Beginning on January 1, 2012, except as otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement under subch. IV of ch. 111 that covers public safety employees, transit employees, or frontline workers and except as provided in par. (b), an employer may not offer a health care coverage plan to its employees under this subsection if the employer pays more than 88 percent of the average premium cost of plans offered in any tier with the lowest employee premium cost under this subsection.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,18 Section 18. 46.2895 (8) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,7,16 46.2895 (8) (a) 1. If the long-term care district offers employment to any individual who was previously employed by a county, which participated in creating the district and at the time of the offer had not withdrawn or been removed from the district under sub. (14), and who while employed by the county performed duties relating to the same or a substantially similar function for which the individual is offered employment by the district and whose wages were established in who was covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the county under subch. IV of ch. 111 that is in effect on the date that the individual commences employment with the district, with respect to that individual, abide by the terms of the collective bargaining agreement concerning the individual’s wages until the time of the expiration of that collective bargaining agreement or adoption of a collective bargaining agreement with the district under subch. IV of ch. 111 covering the individual as an employee of the district, whichever occurs first.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,19 Section 19. 109.03 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,7,22 109.03 (1) (b) School district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, and private school employees who voluntarily request payment over a 12-month period for personal services performed during the school year, unless, with respect to private school employees, the employees are covered under a valid collective bargaining agreement which precludes this method of payment.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,20 Section 20. 111.70 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,8,16 111.70 (1) (a) “Collective bargaining” means the performance of the mutual obligation of a municipal employer, through its officers and agents, and the representative of its municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit, to meet and confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with the intention of reaching an agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement, with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment for public safety employees or, for transit employees and, or for municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit that contains a frontline worker; with respect to wages for general municipal employees, who are in a collective bargaining unit that does not contain a frontline worker; and with respect to a requirement of the municipal employer for a municipal employee to perform law enforcement and fire fighting services under s. 60.553, 61.66, or 62.13 (2e), except as provided in sub. (4) (mb) and (mc) and s. 40.81 (3) and except that a municipal employer shall not meet and confer with respect to any proposal to diminish or abridge the rights guaranteed to any public safety employees under ch. 164. Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement reached to a written and signed document.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,21 Section 21. 111.70 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,2 111.70 (1) (f) “Fair-share agreement” means an agreement between a municipal employer and a labor organization that represents public safety employees or, transit employees, or a frontline worker under which all or any of the public safety employees or transit employees in the collective bargaining unit or all or any of the employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker are required to pay their proportionate share of the cost of the collective bargaining process and contract administration measured by the amount of dues uniformly required of all members.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,22 Section 22. 111.70 (1) (fd) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,5 111.70 (1) (fd) “Frontline worker” means a municipal employee who is determined to be a frontline worker under sub. (4) (bm) 2.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23 Section 23. 111.70 (1) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,8 111.70 (1) (fm) “General municipal employee” means a municipal employee who is not a public safety employee or, a transit employee, or a frontline worker.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,24 Section 24. 111.70 (1) (n) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,14 111.70 (1) (n) “Referendum” means a proceeding conducted by the commission in which public safety employees or transit employees in a collective bargaining unit or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker may cast a secret ballot on the question of authorizing a labor organization and the employer to continue a fair-share agreement.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,25 Section 25. 111.70 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,17 111.70 (1) (p) “Transit employee” means a municipal employee who is determined to be a transit employee under sub. (4) (bm) 1.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,26 Section 26. 111.70 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (2) (a) and amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,9,23 111.70 (2) (a) Municipal employees have the right of self-organization, and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Municipal employees have the right to refrain from any and all such activities. A general municipal employee may not be covered by a fair-share agreement unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker. Unless the general municipal employee is covered by a fair-share agreement, a general municipal employee has the right to refrain from paying dues while remaining a member of a collective bargaining unit. A public safety employee or, a transit employee, however, or a municipal employee in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker may be covered by a fair-share agreement and be required to pay dues in the manner provided in a the fair-share agreement; a fair- share agreement covering a public safety employee or a transit employee must contain a provision requiring the municipal employer to deduct the amount of dues as certified by the labor organization from the earnings of the employee affected by the fair-share agreement and to pay the amount deducted to the labor organization. A fair-share agreement covering a public safety employee or transit employee is subject to the right of the municipal employer or a labor organization to petition the commission to conduct a referendum. Such petition must be supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the employees in the collective bargaining unit desire that the fair-share agreement be terminated. Upon so finding, the commission shall conduct a referendum. If the continuation of the agreement is not supported by at least the majority of the eligible employees, it shall terminate. The commission shall declare any fair-share agreement suspended upon such conditions and for such time as the commission decides whenever it finds that the labor organization involved has refused on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, creed, or sex to receive as a member any public safety employee or transit eligible municipal employee of the municipal employer in the bargaining unit involved, and such agreement is subject to this duty of the commission. Any of the parties to such agreement or any public safety employee or transit municipal employee covered by the agreement may come before the commission, as provided in s. 111.07, and ask the performance of this duty.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,27 Section 27. 111.70 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,11,15 111.70 (2) (b) General municipal employees who are not in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker have the right to have their municipal employer consult with them, through a representative of their own choosing, with no intention of reaching an agreement, with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment. The right may be exercised either when the municipal employer proposes or implements policy changes affecting wages, hours, or conditions of employment or, if no policy changes are proposed or implemented, at least quarterly.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,28 Section 28. 111.70 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,11,20 111.70 (3) (a) 3. To encourage or discourage a membership in any labor organization by discrimination in regard to hiring, tenure, or other terms or conditions of employment; but the prohibition shall not apply to a fair-share agreement that covers public safety employees or transit employees.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,29 Section 29. 111.70 (3) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12,8 111.70 (3) (a) 5. To violate any collective bargaining agreement previously agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment affecting public safety employees or, transit employees, or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker, including an agreement to arbitrate questions arising as to the meaning or application of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement or to accept the terms of such arbitration award, where previously the parties have agreed to accept such award as final and binding upon them or to violate any collective bargaining agreement affecting a collective bargaining unit containing only general municipal employees, that was previously agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,30 Section 30. 111.70 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12,17 111.70 (3) (a) 6. To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public safety employee or, a transit employee, or a municipal employee who is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker unless the municipal employer has been presented with an individual order therefor, signed by the employee personally, and terminable by at least the end of any year of its life or earlier by the public safety employee or transit municipal employee giving at least 30 days’ written notice of such termination to the municipal employer and to the representative organization, except when a fair-share agreement is in effect.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,31 Section 31. 111.70 (3) (a) 9. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,12,23 111.70 (3) (a) 9. If the collective bargaining unit contains a public safety employee or, transit employee, or frontline worker, after a collective bargaining agreement expires and before another collective bargaining agreement takes effect, to fail to follow any fair-share agreement in the expired collective bargaining agreement.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,32 Section 32. 111.70 (3g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13,5 111.70 (3g) Wage deduction prohibition. A municipal employer may not deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a general municipal employee, unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit that contains a frontline worker, or from the earnings of a supervisor.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,33 Section 33. 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13,7 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) Transit employee or frontline worker determination.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,34 Section 34. 111.70 (4) (bm) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (4) (bm) 1.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,35 Section 35. 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,13,15 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. The commission shall determine that a municipal employee is a frontline worker if the commission finds that the municipal employee has regular job duties that include interacting with members of the public or with large populations of people or that directly involve the maintenance of public works. The commission may not determine that a public safety employee or a transit employee is a frontline worker.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,36 Section 36. 111.70 (4) (cg) (title), 1., 2., 3., 4. and 5. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,14,7 111.70 (4) (cg) (title) Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; transit employees and municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker. 1. ‘Notice of commencement of contract negotiations.’ To advise the commission of the commencement of contract negotiations involving a collective bargaining unit containing transit employees or a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker, whenever either party requests the other to reopen negotiations under a binding collective bargaining agreement, or the parties otherwise commence negotiations if no collective bargaining agreement exists, the party requesting negotiations shall immediately notify the commission in writing. Upon failure of the requesting party to provide notice, the other party may provide notice to the commission. The notice shall specify the expiration date of the existing collective bargaining agreement, if any, and shall provide any additional information the commission may require on a form provided by the commission.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,14,15 2. ‘Presentation of initial proposals; open meetings.’ The meetings between parties to a collective bargaining agreement or proposed collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter that involve a collective bargaining unit containing a transit employee or a frontline worker and that are held to present initial bargaining proposals, along with supporting rationale, are open to the public. Each party shall submit its initial bargaining proposals to the other party in writing. Failure to comply with this subdivision does not invalidate a collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,14,21 3. ‘Mediation.’ The commission or its designee shall function as mediator in labor disputes involving transit employees or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker upon request of one or both of the parties, or upon initiation of the commission. The function of the mediator is to encourage voluntary settlement by the parties. No mediator has the power of compulsion.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,15,4 4. ‘Grievance arbitration.’ Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning or application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a collective bargaining unit containing a transit employee or a frontline worker may agree in writing to have the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as arbitrator or may designate any other competent, impartial, and disinterested person to serve as an arbitrator.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,15,14 5. ‘Voluntary impasse resolution procedures.’ In addition to the other impasse resolution procedures provided in this paragraph, a municipal employer that employs a transit employee or a municipal employee in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker and a labor organization may at any time, as a permissive subject of bargaining, agree in writing to a dispute settlement procedure, including binding interest arbitration, which is acceptable to the parties for resolving an impasse over terms of any collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter. The parties shall file a copy of the agreement with the commission. If the parties agree to any form of binding interest arbitration, the arbitrator shall give weight to the factors enumerated under subds. 7. and 7g.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,37 Section 37. 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16,8 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. a. If, in any collective bargaining unit containing transit employees or a frontline worker, a dispute has not been settled after a reasonable period of negotiation and after mediation by the commission under subd. 3. and other settlement procedures, if any, established by the parties have been exhausted, and the parties are deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them over wages, hours, or conditions of employment to be included in a new collective bargaining agreement, either party, or the parties jointly, may petition the commission, in writing, to initiate compulsory, final, and binding arbitration, as provided in this paragraph. At the time the petition is filed, the petitioning party shall submit in writing to the other party and the commission its preliminary final offer containing its latest proposals on all issues in dispute. Within 14 calendar days after the date of that submission, the other party shall submit in writing its preliminary final offer on all disputed issues to the petitioning party and the commission. If a petition is filed jointly, both parties shall exchange their preliminary final offers in writing and submit copies to the commission when the petition is filed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,38 Section 38. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d., e. and f. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16,14 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d. Comparison of wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the transit municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of other employees performing similar services.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16,18 e. Comparison of the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the transit municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of other employees generally in public employment in the same community and in comparable communities.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,16,22 f. Comparison of the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the transit municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of other employees in private employment in the same community and in comparable communities.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,39 Section 39. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. h. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,17,5 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. h. The overall compensation presently received by the transit municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings, including direct wage compensation, vacation, holidays, and excused time, insurance and pensions, medical and hospitalization benefits, the continuity and stability of employment, and all other benefits received.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,40 Section 40. 111.70 (4) (cg) 8m. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,17,19 111.70 (4) (cg) 8m. ‘Term of agreement; reopening of negotiations.’ Except for the initial collective bargaining agreement between the parties and except as the parties otherwise agree, every collective bargaining agreement covering transit employees or a frontline worker shall be for a term of 2 years, but in no case may a collective bargaining agreement for any collective bargaining unit consisting of transit employees subject to this paragraph be for a term exceeding 3 years. No arbitration award involving transit employees or a frontline worker may contain a provision for reopening of negotiations during the term of a collective bargaining agreement, unless both parties agree to such a provision. The requirement for agreement by both parties does not apply to a provision for reopening of negotiations with respect to any portion of an agreement that is declared invalid by a court or administrative agency or rendered invalid by the enactment of a law or promulgation of a federal regulation.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,41 Section 41. 111.70 (4) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,18,12 111.70 (4) (d) 1. A representative chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by a majority of the public safety employees or transit municipal employees voting in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative of all employees in the unit for the purpose of collective bargaining. A representative chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by at least 51 percent of the general municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative of all employees in the unit for the purpose of collective bargaining. Any individual employee, or any minority group of employees in any collective bargaining unit, shall have the right to present grievances to the municipal employer in person or through representatives of their own choosing, and the municipal employer shall confer with the employee in relation thereto, if the majority representative has been afforded the opportunity to be present at the conferences. Any adjustment resulting from these conferences may not be inconsistent with the conditions of employment established by the majority representative and the municipal employer.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,42 Section 42. 111.70 (4) (d) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,20,6 111.70 (4) (d) 2. a. The commission shall determine the appropriate collective bargaining unit for the purpose of collective bargaining and shall whenever possible avoid fragmentation by maintaining as few collective bargaining units as practicable in keeping with the size of the total municipal workforce. The commission may decide whether, in a particular case, the municipal employees in the same or several departments, divisions, institutions, crafts, professions, or other occupational groupings constitute a collective bargaining unit. Before making its determination, the commission may provide an opportunity for the municipal employees concerned to determine, by secret ballot, whether they desire to be established as a separate collective bargaining unit. The commission may not decide, however, that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both professional employees and nonprofessional employees, unless a majority of the professional employees vote for inclusion in the unit. The commission may not decide that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both school district employees and general municipal employees who are not school district employees. The commission may not decide that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both public safety employees and general municipal employees, if the group includes both transit employees and general municipal employees, or if the group includes both transit employees and public safety employees place public safety employees in a collective bargaining unit with employees who are not public safety employees or place transit employees in a collective bargaining unit with employees who are not transit employees. The commission may place frontline workers in a collective bargaining unit with municipal employees who are not frontline workers if the commission determines it is appropriate; if the commission places in a collective bargaining unit frontline workers and municipal employees who are not frontline workers, the collective bargaining unit is treated as if all employees in the collective bargaining unit are frontline workers. The commission may not decide that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both craft employees and noncraft employees unless a majority of the craft employees vote for inclusion in the unit. The commission shall place the professional employees who are assigned to perform any services at a charter school, as defined in s. 115.001 (1), in a separate collective bargaining unit from a unit that includes any other professional employees whenever at least 30 percent of those professional employees request an election to be held to determine that issue and a majority of the professional employees at the charter school who cast votes in the election decide to be represented in a separate collective bargaining unit.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,43 Section 43. 111.70 (4) (d) 3. a. and c. of the statutes are consolidated and renumbered 111.70 (4) (d) 3.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,44 Section 44. 111.70 (4) (d) 3. b. of the statutes is repealed.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,45 Section 45. 111.70 (4) (mb) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,20,14 111.70 (4) (mb) Prohibited subjects of bargaining; general municipal employees. (intro.) The municipal employer is prohibited from bargaining collectively with a collective bargaining unit containing a only general municipal employee employees with respect to any of the following:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,46 Section 46. 111.70 (4) (mbb) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,20,21 111.70 (4) (mbb) Consumer price index change. For purposes of determining compliance with par. (mb), the commission shall provide, upon request, to a municipal employer or to any representative of a collective bargaining unit containing a only general municipal employee employees, the consumer price index change during any 12-month period. The commission may get the information from the department of revenue.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,47 Section 47. 111.70 (4) (mc) (intro.), 6., 7. and 8. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,21,5 111.70 (4) (mc) Prohibited subjects of bargaining; public safety employees, transit employees, and frontline workers. (intro.) The municipal employer is prohibited from bargaining collectively with a collective bargaining unit containing a public safety employee, transit employee, or frontline worker with respect to any of the following:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,21,13 6. Except for whether or not to provide health care coverage and the employee premium contribution, all costs and payments associated with health care coverage plans and the design and selection of health care coverage plans by the municipal employer for public safety employees, and the impact of such costs and payments and the design and selection of the health care coverage plans on the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the public safety employee. For purposes of this subdivision, “design” does not include the decision as to who is covered by a health care coverage plan selected by the municipal employer.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,21,23 7. In any bargaining unit composed of public safety employees, in a municipality with a retirement system established under chapter 396, laws of 1937, any terms of such a retirement system, including, but not limited to, the contribution rates, pension benefit calculation, or factors used to calculate a pension benefit under the system, with any bargaining unit composed of public safety employees. For such a retirement system, the terms of the system, including, but not limited to, the contribution rates, pension benefit calculation, or factors used to calculate a pension benefit under the system for employees who are part of a bargaining unit composed of public safety employees, shall be the same as those in effect on December 30, 2022.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,22,7 8. In any bargaining unit composed of public safety employees or employees treated as public safety employees under par. (bn), in a municipality with a retirement system established under chapter 201, laws of 1937, any terms of such a retirement system, including, but not limited to, the costs, payments, contribution rates, pension benefit calculation, or design, including all impacts or effects that any changes made to the retirement system might have upon the wages, hours, or conditions of employment, with any bargaining unit composed of public safety employees or any employees treated as public safety employees under par. (bn).

AB50-ASA2-AA6,48 Section 48. 111.70 (7m) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,22,16 111.70 (7m) (c) 1. a. Any labor organization that represents public safety employees or, transit employees, or a frontline worker which violates sub. (4) (L) may not collect any dues under a collective bargaining agreement or under a fair- share agreement from any employee covered by either agreement for a period of one year. At the end of the period of suspension, any such agreement shall be reinstated unless the labor organization is no longer authorized to represent the public safety employees or transit municipal employees covered by the collective bargaining agreement or fair-share agreement or the agreement is no longer in effect.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,49 Section 49. 111.81 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 111.81 (1s) and amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23,7 111.81 (1s) “Collective bargaining” means the performance of the mutual obligation of the state as an employer, by its officers and agents, and the representatives of its employees, to meet and confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with respect to the subjects of bargaining provided in s. 111.91 (1), with respect to for public safety employees, with respect to the subjects of bargaining provided in s. 111.91 (1w) for employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker, and with respect to the subjects of bargaining provided in s. 111.91 (3), with respect to for general employees who are in a collective bargaining unit that does not contain a frontline worker, with the intention of reaching an agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement. The duty to bargain, however, does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require the making of a concession. Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement reached to a written and signed document.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,50 Section 50. 111.81 (1b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23,12 111.81 (1b) “Academic staff” has the meaning given in s. 36.05 (1) but does not include academic staff under s. 36.15 (1) (a) that are supervisors, management employees, and individuals who are privy to confidential matters affecting the employer-employee relationship.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,51 Section 51. 111.81 (1d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23,15 111.81 (1d) “Authority” means a body created under subch. II of ch. 114 or ch. 231, 232, 233, 234, 237, 238, or 279.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,52 Section 52. 111.81 (7) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23,17 111.81 (7) (ag) An employee of an authority.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,53 Section 53. 111.81 (7) (ar) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,23,21 111.81 (7) (ar) Any employee who is employed by the University of Wisconsin System, except an employee who is assigned to the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and except including faculty, and except academic staff under s. 36.15.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,54 Section 54. 111.81 (7) (at) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50-ASA2-AA6,24,2 111.81 (7) (at) Any employee who is employed by the University of Wisconsin System and assigned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison except including faculty and except academic staff under s. 36.15.

AB50-ASA2-AA6,55 Section 55. 111.81 (8) of the statutes is amended to read: