SB660,36 Section 36 . 111.81 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,18,8 111.81 (1) “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 public safety employees and employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t), and to the subjects of bargaining provided in s. 111.91 (3), with respect to general employees, 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.

SB660,37 Section 37. 111.81 (9g) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,18,12 111.81 (9g) “General employee" means an employee who is not a public safety employee or an employee who is represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t).

SB660,38 Section 38. 111.81 (12m) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,18,21 111.81 (12m) “Maintenance of membership agreement" means an agreement between the employer and a labor organization representing public safety employees or a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) which requires that all of the public safety employees whose dues are being deducted from earnings under s. 20.921 (1) or 111.84 (1) (f) at the time the agreement takes effect shall continue to have dues deducted for the duration of the agreement, and that dues shall be deducted from the earnings of all public safety such employees who are hired on or after the effective date of the agreement.

SB660,39 Section 39. 111.81 (16) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,19,6 111.81 (16) “Referendum" means a proceeding conducted by the commission in which public safety employees in a collective bargaining unit may cast a secret ballot on the question of directing the labor organization and the employer to enter into a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement or to terminate such an agreement or a proceeding conducted by the commission in which employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) may cast a secret ballot on the question of directing the labor organization and the employer to enter into a maintenance of membership agreement or to terminate such an agreement.

SB660,40 Section 40. 111.825 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,19,22 111.825 (5) Although supervisors are not considered employees for purposes of this subchapter, the commission may consider a petition for a statewide collective bargaining unit of professional supervisors or a statewide unit of nonprofessional supervisors in the classified service, but the representative of supervisors may not be affiliated with any labor organization representing employees. For purposes of this subsection, affiliation does not include membership in a national, state, county or municipal federation of national or international labor organizations. The certified representative of supervisors who are not public safety employees or employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under sub. (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) may not bargain collectively with respect to any matter other than wages as provided in s. 111.91 (3), and the certified representative of supervisors who are public safety employees or employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under sub. (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) may not bargain collectively with respect to any matter other than wages and fringe benefits as provided in s. 111.91 (1).

SB660,41 Section 41. 111.83 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,20,13 111.83 (1) Except as provided in sub. (5), a representative chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by at least 51 percent of the general employees in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative of all of the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining. A representative chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by a majority of the public safety employees or employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) voting in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative of all of the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining. Any individual employee, or any minority group of employees in any collective bargaining unit, may present grievances to the employer in person, or through representatives of their own choosing, and the employer shall confer with the employee or group of employees in relation thereto if the majority representative has been afforded the opportunity to be present at the conference. Any adjustment resulting from such a conference may not be inconsistent with the conditions of employment established by the majority representative and the employer.

SB660,42 Section 42. 111.83 (5) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,20,21 111.83 (5) (d) If at an election held under par. (b), at least 51 percent a majority of the employees in the collective bargaining unit eligible to vote in the election and voting in the election at all institutions in which the choice to participate in collective bargaining receives at least 51 percent a majority of the eligible votes elect to be represented by a single labor organization, that labor organization shall be the exclusive representative for all employees in that collective bargaining unit, except those excluded under par. (c).

SB660,43 Section 43. 111.83 (5) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,21,4 111.83 (5) (e) If at an election held under par. (b), at least 51 percent a majority of the employees in the collective bargaining unit eligible to vote in the election and voting in the election at all institutions in which the choice to participate in collective bargaining receives at least 51 percent a majority of the eligible votes do not elect to be represented by a single labor organization, the commission may hold one or more runoff elections under sub. (4) until one representative receives at least 51 percent a majority of the eligible votes.

SB660,44 Section 44. 111.83 (5) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,21,16 111.83 (5) (f) Notwithstanding par. (b), if a labor organization is certified to represent the employees within the collective bargaining unit at one or more institutions, and a petition is filed with the commission indicating a showing of interest by the employees at an institution which is not a part of the unit under par. (c) to be represented by a labor organization, the only question which may appear on the ballot shall be whether the employees desire to participate in collective bargaining. A petition under this paragraph may be filed only during June in an even-numbered year. If at least 51 percent a majority of the employees eligible to vote in the election at the institution who are included within the collective bargaining unit vote to participate in collective bargaining, the employees at that institution shall become a part of that collective bargaining unit.

SB660,45 Section 45. 111.84 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,22,4 111.84 (1) (f) To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public safety employee, or an employee who is represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t), unless the employer has been presented with an individual order therefor, signed by the public safety employee personally, and terminable by at least the end of any year of its life or earlier by the public safety employee giving at least 30 but not more than 120 days' written notice of such termination to the employer and to the representative labor organization, except if there is a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement in effect for a public safety employee, or a maintenance of membership agreement in effect for an employee represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t). The employer shall give notice to the labor organization of receipt of such notice of termination.

SB660,46 Section 46. 111.85 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,22,20 111.85 (1) (a) No fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement covering public safety employees may become effective unless authorized by a referendum. No maintenance of membership agreement covering employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) may become effective unless authorized by a referendum. The commission shall order a referendum whenever it receives a petition supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the public safety employees in a collective bargaining unit desire that a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement be entered into between the employer and a labor organization. The commission shall order a referendum whenever it receives a petition supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) desire that a maintenance of membership agreement be entered into between the employer and a labor organization. A petition may specify that a referendum is requested on a maintenance of membership agreement only, in which case the ballot shall be limited to that question.

SB660,47 Section 47. 111.85 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,23,5 111.85 (1) (b) For a fair-share agreement to be authorized, at least two-thirds of the eligible public safety employees voting in a referendum shall vote in favor of the agreement. For a maintenance of membership agreement to be authorized, at least a majority of the eligible public safety employees or employees represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) voting in a referendum shall vote in favor of the agreement. In a referendum on a fair-share agreement, if less than two-thirds but more than one-half of the eligible public safety employees vote in favor of the agreement, a maintenance of membership agreement is authorized.

SB660,48 Section 48. 111.85 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,23,20 111.85 (1) (c) If a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement is authorized in a referendum, the employer shall enter into such an agreement with the labor organization named on the ballot in the referendum. Each fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement shall contain a provision requiring the employer to deduct the amount of dues as certified by the labor organization from the earnings of the public safety employees affected by the agreement and to pay the amount so deducted to the labor organization. Unless the parties agree to an earlier date, the agreement shall take effect 60 days after certification by the commission that the referendum vote authorized the agreement. The employer shall be held harmless against any claims, demands, suits and other forms of liability made by public safety employees or local labor organizations which may arise for actions taken by the employer in compliance with this section. All such lawful claims, demands, suits and other forms of liability are the responsibility of the labor organization entering into the agreement.

SB660,49 Section 49. 111.85 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB660,24,9 111.85 (1) (d) Under each fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement, a public safety employee who has religious convictions against dues payments to a labor organization based on teachings or tenets of a church or religious body of which he or she is a member shall, on request to the labor organization, have his or her dues paid to a charity mutually agreed upon by the public safety employee and the labor organization. Under each maintenance of membership agreement, an employee represented by a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1r) (a) to (ec), (eh), (ei), or (f) or (1t) who has religious convictions against dues payments to a labor organization based on teachings or tenets of a church or religious body of which he or she is a member shall, on request to the labor organization, have his or her dues paid to a charity mutually agreed upon by the employee and the labor organization. Any dispute concerning this paragraph may be submitted to the commission for adjudication.

SB660,50 Section 50. 111.85 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read: