AB687,7,19 40.80 (3) Any action taken under this section shall apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement under subch. V or VI of ch. 111.

AB687,18 Section 18. 40.81 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,7,22 40.81 (3) Any action taken under this section shall apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement under subch. IV or , V, or VI of ch. 111.

AB687,19 Section 19. 111.70 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,8,13 111.70 (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, transit employees, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, and technical college employees, and with respect to wages for general municipal employees, 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.

AB687,20 Section 20 . 111.70 (1) (cn) of the statutes is created to read:

AB687,8,16 111.70 (1) (cn) “Cooperative educational service agency employee” means a municipal employee who is employed by a cooperative educational service agency.

AB687,21 Section 21. 111.70 (1) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,8,20 111.70 (1) (fm) “General municipal employee" means a municipal employee who is not a public safety employee or, a transit employee, a school district employee, a cooperative educational service agency employee, or a technical college employee.

AB687,22 Section 22. 111.70 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,9,3 111.70 (1) (j) “Municipal employer" means any city, county, village, town, metropolitan sewerage district, school district, cooperative educational service agency, district board, as defined in s. 38.01 (6), long-term care district, local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, or any other political subdivision of the state, or instrumentality of one or more political subdivisions of the state, that engages the services of an employee and includes any person acting on behalf of a municipal employer within the scope of the person's authority, express or implied.

AB687,23 Section 23. 111.70 (1) (om) of the statutes is created to read:

AB687,9,6 111.70 (1) (om) “Technical college employee” means a municipal employee who is employed by a district board, as defined in s. 38.01 (6).

AB687,24 Section 24. 111.70 (3) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,9,17 111.70 (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, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, or technical college employees, 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 general municipal employees, that was previously agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages.

AB687,25 Section 25. 111.70 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,9,25 111.70 (3) (a) 6. To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public safety employee or, a transit employee, a school district employee, a cooperative educational service agency employee, or a technical college employee, 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 employee, school district employee, cooperative educational service agency employee, or technical college 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.

AB687,26 Section 26. 111.70 (4) (cg) (title), 1. to 5. and 6. a. of the statutes are amended to read:

AB687,10,19 111.70 (4) (cg) (title) Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; transit employees, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, and technical college employees. 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, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, or technical college employees, 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.

AB687,11,3 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, a school district employee, a cooperative educational service agency employee, or a technical college employee 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.

AB687,11,9 3. `Mediation.' The commission or its designee shall function as mediator in labor disputes involving transit employees, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, or technical college employees 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.

AB687,11,16 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, a school district employee, a cooperative educational service agency employee, or a technical college employee 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.

AB687,12,2 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, a school district employee, a cooperative educational service agency employee, or a technical college employee and 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.

AB687,12,18 6. a. If in any collective bargaining unit containing transit employees , school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, or technical college employees 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.

AB687,27 Section 27. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,12,24 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. d. Comparison of wages, hours and conditions of employment of the transit employees, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, or technical college employees involved in the arbitration proceedings with the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of other employees performing similar services.

AB687,28 Section 28. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. e. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB687,13,6 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. e. Comparison of the wages, hours and conditions of employment of the transit employees, school district employees, cooperative educational service agency employees, or technical college 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.

AB687,29 Section 29. 111.70 (4) (cg) 7r. f. of the statutes is amended to read: