AB68-ASA2-AA6,341av 3Section 341av. 111.70 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,83,114 111.70 (3) (a) 6. To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public
5safety employee or, a transit employee, or a municipal employee who is in a collective
6bargaining unit containing a frontline worker
unless the municipal employer has
7been presented with an individual order therefor, signed by the employee personally,
8and terminable by at least the end of any year of its life or earlier by the public safety
9employee or transit
municipal employee giving at least 30 days' written notice of such
10termination to the municipal employer and to the representative organization,
11except when a fair-share agreement is in effect.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341aw 12Section 341aw. 111.70 (3) (a) 9. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,83,1713 111.70 (3) (a) 9. If the collective bargaining unit contains a public safety
14employee or, transit employee, or frontline worker, after a collective bargaining
15agreement expires and before another collective bargaining agreement takes effect,
16to fail to follow any fair-share agreement in the expired collective bargaining
17agreement.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341ax 18Section 341ax. 111.70 (3g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,83,2219 111.70 (3g) Wage deduction prohibition. A municipal employer may not
20deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a general municipal employee,
21unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit that
22contains a frontline worker,
or from the earnings of a supervisor.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341ay 23Section 341ay. 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,83,2424 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) Transit employee or frontline worker determination.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341az
1Section 341az. 111.70 (4) (bm) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (4) (bm)
21.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341bb 3Section 341bb. 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,84,94 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. The commission shall determine that a municipal employee
5is a frontline worker if the commission finds that the municipal employee has regular
6job duties that include interacting with members of the public or with large
7populations of people or that directly involve the maintenance of public works. The
8commission may not determine that a public safety employee or a transit employee
9is a frontline worker.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341bc 10Section 341bc. 111.70 (4) (cg) (title), 1., 2., 3., 4. and 5. of the statutes are
11amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,84,2412 111.70 (4) (cg) (title) Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; transit
13employees
and municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a
14frontline worker
. 1. `Notice of commencement of contract negotiations.' To advise the
15commission of the commencement of contract negotiations involving a collective
16bargaining unit containing transit employees or a collective bargaining unit
17containing a frontline worker
, whenever either party requests the other to reopen
18negotiations under a binding collective bargaining agreement, or the parties
19otherwise commence negotiations if no collective bargaining agreement exists, the
20party requesting negotiations shall immediately notify the commission in writing.
21Upon failure of the requesting party to provide notice, the other party may provide
22notice to the commission. The notice shall specify the expiration date of the existing
23collective bargaining agreement, if any, and shall provide any additional information
24the commission may require on a form provided by the commission.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,85,8
12. `Presentation of initial proposals; open meetings.' The meetings between
2parties to a collective bargaining agreement or proposed collective bargaining
3agreement under this subchapter that involve a collective bargaining unit
4containing a transit employee or a frontline worker and that are held to present
5initial bargaining proposals, along with supporting rationale, are open to the public.
6Each party shall submit its initial bargaining proposals to the other party in writing.
7Failure to comply with this subdivision does not invalidate a collective bargaining
8agreement under this subchapter.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,85,149 3. `Mediation.' The commission or its designee shall function as mediator in
10labor disputes involving transit employees or municipal employees in a collective
11bargaining unit containing a frontline worker
upon request of one or both of the
12parties, or upon initiation of the commission. The function of the mediator is to
13encourage voluntary settlement by the parties. No mediator has the power of
14compulsion.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,85,2015 4. `Grievance arbitration.' Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning or
16application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a
17collective bargaining unit containing a transit employee or a frontline worker may
18agree in writing to have the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as
19arbitrator or may designate any other competent, impartial, and disinterested
20person to serve as an arbitrator.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,86,521 5. `Voluntary impasse resolution procedures.' In addition to the other impasse
22resolution procedures provided in this paragraph, a municipal employer that
23employs a transit employee or a municipal employee in a collective bargaining unit
24containing a frontline worker
and a labor organization may at any time, as a
25permissive subject of bargaining, agree in writing to a dispute settlement procedure,

1including binding interest arbitration, which is acceptable to the parties for
2resolving an impasse over terms of any collective bargaining agreement under this
3subchapter. The parties shall file a copy of the agreement with the commission. If
4the parties agree to any form of binding interest arbitration, the arbitrator shall give
5weight to the factors enumerated under subds. 7. and 7g.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341bd 6Section 341bd. 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,86,217 111.70 (4) (cg) 6. a. If, in any collective bargaining unit containing transit
8employees or a frontline worker, a dispute has not been settled after a reasonable
9period of negotiation and after mediation by the commission under subd. 3. and other
10settlement procedures, if any, established by the parties have been exhausted, and
11the parties are deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them over wages,
12hours, or conditions of employment to be included in a new collective bargaining
13agreement, either party, or the parties jointly, may petition the commission, in
14writing, to initiate compulsory, final, and binding arbitration, as provided in this
15paragraph. At the time the petition is filed, the petitioning party shall submit in
16writing to the other party and the commission its preliminary final offer containing
17its latest proposals on all issues in dispute. Within 14 calendar days after the date
18of that submission, the other party shall submit in writing its preliminary final offer
19on all disputed issues to the petitioning party and the commission. If a petition is
20filed jointly, both parties shall exchange their preliminary final offers in writing and
21submit copies to the commission when the petition is filed.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341be 22Section 341be. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d., e. and f. of the statutes are amended to
23read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,87,224 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d. Comparison of wages, hours , and conditions of employment
25of the transit municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the

1wages, hours, and conditions of employment of other employees performing similar
2services.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,87,63 e. Comparison of the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the transit
4municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the wages, hours,
5and conditions of employment of other employees generally in public employment in
6the same community and in comparable communities.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,87,107 f. Comparison of the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the transit
8municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the wages, hours,
9and conditions of employment of other employees in private employment in the same
10community and in comparable communities.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341bf 11Section 341bf. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. h. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,87,1612 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. h. The overall compensation presently received by the transit
13municipal employees involved in the arbitration proceedings, including direct wage
14compensation, vacation, holidays, and excused time, insurance and pensions,
15medical and hospitalization benefits, the continuity and stability of employment,
16and all other benefits received.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341bg 17Section 341bg. 111.70 (4) (cg) 8m. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,88,518 111.70 (4) (cg) 8m. `Term of agreement; reopening of negotiations.' Except for
19the initial collective bargaining agreement between the parties and except as the
20parties otherwise agree, every collective bargaining agreement covering transit
21employees or a frontline worker shall be for a term of 2 years, but in no case may a
22collective bargaining agreement for any collective bargaining unit consisting of
23transit employees
subject to this paragraph be for a term exceeding 3 years. No
24arbitration award involving transit employees or a frontline worker may contain a
25provision for reopening of negotiations during the term of a collective bargaining

1agreement, unless both parties agree to such a provision. The requirement for
2agreement by both parties does not apply to a provision for reopening of negotiations
3with respect to any portion of an agreement that is declared invalid by a court or
4administrative agency or rendered invalid by the enactment of a law or promulgation
5of a federal regulation.
AB68-ASA2-AA6,341bh 6Section 341bh. 111.70 (4) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-ASA2-AA6,88,217 111.70 (4) (d) 1. A representative chosen for the purposes of collective
8bargaining by a majority of the public safety employees or transit municipal
9employees voting in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative
10of all employees in the unit for the purpose of collective bargaining. A representative
11chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by at least 51 percent of the general
12municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive
13representative of all employees in the unit for the purpose of collective bargaining.

14Any individual employee, or any minority group of employees in any collective
15bargaining unit, shall have the right to present grievances to the municipal employer
16in person or through representatives of their own choosing, and the municipal
17employer shall confer with the employee in relation thereto, if the majority
18representative has been afforded the opportunity to be present at the conferences.
19Any adjustment resulting from these conferences may not be inconsistent with the
20conditions of employment established by the majority representative and the
21municipal employer.