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Assembly Bill A6175

2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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2015-A6175 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3120
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง209, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8365, S6304
2017-2018: A6988, S3377
2019-2020: A9870
2021-2022: A4108
2023-2024: A3762

2015-A6175 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A6175 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6175

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2015
                               ___________

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:

  Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the civil
service law, as added by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended  to
read as follows:
  (a)  In the event that the board certifies that a voluntary resolution
of the contract negotiations between either (i) the New York city trans-
it authority (hereinafter referred to as  TA-public  employer)  and  the
public  employee  organization  certified or recognized to represent the
majority of employees of such TA-public employer, or (ii) the  metropol-
itan  transportation authority, including its subsidiaries, the New York
city transit authority, including its  subsidiary,  and  the  Triborough
bridge  and  tunnel authority (all hereinafter referred to as MTA-public
employer) and a public employee organization certified or recognized  to
represent  employees  of  such  MTA-public  employer  not subject to the
jurisdiction of the Federal Railway Labor Act and  not  subject  to  the
provisions  of  subparagraph  (i)  [hereof] OF THIS PARAGRAPH, which has
made an election pursuant to paragraph (f) of this subdivision, OR (III)
THE NEW YORK STATE POWER AUTHORITY AND THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE  ORGANIZATION
CERTIFIED OR RECOGNIZED TO REPRESENT THE EMPLOYEES OF SUCH POWER AUTHOR-
ITY,  cannot  be  effected,  or  upon the joint request of the TA-public
employer [or], the MTA-public employer (hereinafter jointly referred  to
as  public employer) OR THE POWER AUTHORITY-PUBLIC EMPLOYER and any such
affected employee organization, such board shall refer the dispute to  a
public  arbitration  panel,  consisting  of  one member appointed by the
public employer, one member appointed by the employee  organization  and
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.
                                                           LBD05405-01-5

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