Bill Text: NY A06175 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York state power authority and its employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [A06175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06175-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6175
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 16, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Employees
       AN  ACT  to  amend the civil service law, in relation to mandatory arbi-
         tration
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the civil
    2  service law, as added by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    (a)  In the event that the board certifies that a voluntary resolution
    5  of the contract negotiations between either (i) the New York city trans-
    6  it authority (hereinafter referred to as  TA-public  employer)  and  the
    7  public  employee  organization  certified or recognized to represent the
    8  majority of employees of such TA-public employer, or (ii) the  metropol-
    9  itan  transportation authority, including its subsidiaries, the New York
   10  city transit authority, including its  subsidiary,  and  the  Triborough
   11  bridge  and  tunnel authority (all hereinafter referred to as MTA-public
   12  employer) and a public employee organization certified or recognized  to
   13  represent  employees  of  such  MTA-public  employer  not subject to the
   14  jurisdiction of the Federal Railway Labor Act and  not  subject  to  the
   15  provisions  of  subparagraph  (i)  [hereof] OF THIS PARAGRAPH, which has
   16  made an election pursuant to paragraph (f) of this subdivision, OR (III)
   17  THE NEW YORK STATE POWER AUTHORITY AND THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE  ORGANIZATION
   18  CERTIFIED OR RECOGNIZED TO REPRESENT THE EMPLOYEES OF SUCH POWER AUTHOR-
   19  ITY,  cannot  be  effected,  or  upon the joint request of the TA-public
   20  employer [or], the MTA-public employer (hereinafter jointly referred  to
   21  as  public employer) OR THE POWER AUTHORITY-PUBLIC EMPLOYER and any such
   22  affected employee organization, such board shall refer the dispute to  a
   23  public  arbitration  panel,  consisting  of  one member appointed by the
   24  public employer, one member appointed by the employee  organization  and
   25  one  public member appointed jointly by the public employer and employee
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 6175                             2
    1  organization who shall be selected within ten days after receipt by  the
    2  board  of  a  petition  for creation of the arbitration panel. If either
    3  party fails to designate its member to the public arbitration panel, the
    4  board  shall promptly, upon receipt of a request by either party, desig-
    5  nate a member associated in interest with the public employer or employ-
    6  ee organization he is to represent. Each of the respective parties is to
    7  bear the cost of its member appointed or designated to  the  arbitration
    8  panel and each of the respective parties is to share equally the cost of
    9  the  public  member.  If,  within seven days after the mailing date, the
   10  parties are unable to agree upon the one public member, the board  shall
   11  submit to the parties a list of qualified, disinterested persons for the
   12  selection  of  the  public member.   Each party shall alternately strike
   13  from the list one of the names with the order of striking determined  by
   14  lot,  until  the  remaining  one  person  shall  be designated as public
   15  member. This process shall be completed within five days of  receipt  of
   16  this  list.  The parties shall notify the board of the designated public
   17  member. The public member shall be chosen as chairman.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
   19  the  amendments made to paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of
   20  the civil service law by section one of this act shall  not  affect  the
   21  expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.