SB917-ASA1,4,415 111.70 (1) (a) “Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual
16obligation of a municipal employer, through its officers and agents, and the
17representative of its municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit, to meet and
18confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with the intention of reaching an
19agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement, with respect to
20wages, hours, and conditions of employment for public safety employees or transit
21employees and with respect to wages for general municipal employees, and with
22respect to a requirement of the municipal employer for a municipal employee to
23perform law enforcement and fire fighting services under s. 60.553, 61.66, or 62.13
24(2e) and for a school district with respect to any matter under sub. (4) (n), except as
25provided in sub. (4) (mb) and (mc) and s. 40.81 (3) and except that a municipal

1employer shall not meet and confer with respect to any proposal to diminish or
2abridge the rights guaranteed to any public safety employees under ch. 164.
3Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement reached to a written
4and signed document.

SB917-ASA1,4,157 111.70 (3) (a) 5. To violate any collective bargaining agreement previously
8agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of
9employment affecting public safety employees or transit municipal employees,
10including an agreement to arbitrate questions arising as to the meaning or
11application of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement or to accept the terms
12of such arbitration award, where previously the parties have agreed to accept such
13award as final and binding upon them or to violate any collective bargaining
14agreement affecting general municipal employees, that was previously agreed upon
15by the parties with respect to wages.

SB917-ASA1,4,1817 111.70 (3) (a) 7. To refuse or otherwise fail to implement an arbitration decision
18lawfully made under sub. (4) (cm).

SB917-ASA1,4,2221 111.70 (3) (b) 6. To refuse or otherwise fail to implement an arbitration decision
22lawfully made under sub. (4) (cm).

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1111.70 (4) (c) (title) Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; public safety
2employees law enforcement and fire fighting personnel.

SB917-ASA1,5,105 111.70 (4) (c) 1m. `Mediation.' The commission may function as a mediator in
6labor disputes involving a collective bargaining unit containing a public safety
7employee. Such mediation may be carried on by a person designated to act by the
8commission upon request of one or both of the parties or upon initiation of the
9commission. The function of the mediator is to encourage voluntary settlement by
10the parties but no mediator has the power of compulsion.

SB917-ASA1,5,1312 111.70 (4) (c) 1g. `Applicability.' This paragraph applies only to municipal
13employees who are engaged in law enforcement or fire fighting functions.

SB917-ASA1,5,1915 111.70 (4) (c) 2. `Arbitration.' Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning
16or application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a
17collective bargaining unit containing a public safety employee may agree in writing
18to have the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as arbitrator or may
19designate any other competent, impartial and disinterested person to so serve.

SB917-ASA1,6,321 111.70 (4) (c) 3. `Fact-finding.' (intro.) Unless s. 111.77 applies, if a dispute
22involving a collective bargaining unit containing a public safety employee has not
23been settled after a reasonable period of negotiation and after the settlement
24procedures, if any, established by the parties have been exhausted, and the parties
25are deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them arising in the collective

1bargaining process, either party, or the parties jointly, may petition the commission,
2in writing, to initiate fact-finding, and to make recommendations to resolve the
3deadlock, as follows: