Senate Bill S7914

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires certain public transit authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9074
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S3537, A4077

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7914
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 2, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  resolution  of
   disputes in the course of collective negotiations
 
   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  NIAGARA  FRONTIER  TRANSPORTATION  AUTHORITY, THE ROCHESTER-GENESEE
 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, THE CAPITAL  DISTRICT  TRANSPORTATION
 AUTHORITY  AND  THE  CENTRAL  NEW YORK REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
 (ALL HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS  UPSTATE  TA-PUBLIC  EMPLOYER)  AND  THE
 PUBLIC  EMPLOYEE  ORGANIZATION  CERTIFIED OR RECOGNIZED TO REPRESENT THE
 EMPLOYEES OF SUCH UPSTATE TA-PUBLIC EMPLOYER,  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
 UPSTATE  TA-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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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