AB50,966,7 111.70 (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.

AB50,1834 Section 1834. 111.70 (4) (d) 3. a. and c. of the statutes are consolidated and renumbered 111.70 (4) (d) 3.

AB50,1835 Section 1835. 111.70 (4) (d) 3. b. of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,1836 Section 1836. 111.70 (4) (mb) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,966,15 111.70 (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:

AB50,1837 Section 1837. 111.70 (4) (mbb) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,966,22 111.70 (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.

AB50,1838 Section 1838. 111.70 (4) (mc) (intro.), 6., 7. and 8. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB50,967,7 111.70 (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:

AB50,967,15 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.

AB50,968,2 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.

AB50,968,10 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).

AB50,1839 Section 1839. 111.70 (7m) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,968,19 111.70 (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.

AB50,1840 Section 1840. 111.81 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 111.81 (1s) and amended to read:

AB50,969,10 111.81 (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.

AB50,1841 Section 1841. 111.81 (1b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,969,15 111.81 (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.

AB50,1842 Section 1842. 111.81 (1d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,969,18 111.81 (1d) “Authority” means a body created under subch. II of ch. 114 or ch. 231, 232, 233, 234, 237, 238, or 279.

AB50,1843 Section 1843. 111.81 (7) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,969,20 111.81 (7) (ag) An employee of an authority.

AB50,1844 Section 1844. 111.81 (7) (ar) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,969,24 111.81 (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.

AB50,1845 Section 1845. 111.81 (7) (at) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,970,4 111.81 (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.

AB50,1846 Section 1846. 111.81 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,970,7 111.81 (8) “Employer” means the state of Wisconsin and includes an authority.

AB50,1847 Section 1847. 111.81 (8p) of the statutes is created to read: