Amendment SE5 AA13-ASA1-AB1

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September 1995 Special Session

1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 13, To ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, To ASSEMBLY BILL 1

September 27, 1995 - Offered by Representative Carpenter.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the substitute amendment as follows:

AB1-ASA1-AA13,1,2 1. Page 30, line 9: after that line insert:

AB1-ASA1-AA13,1,3 "229.683 Strikebreakers, replacement players. (1) In this section:

AB1-ASA1-AA13,1,10 (a) "Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual obligation of an employer, by that employer's officers and agents, and the representatives of that employer's employes to meet and confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with the intention of reaching an agreement, or of resolving questions arising under an agreement, with respect to wages, hours and conditions of employment, or concerning the representation of employes in negotiating, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange wages, hours and conditions of employment.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,1,11 (b) "Employe" means a major league professional baseball player.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,1,13 (c) "Employer" means a major league professional baseball team franchise that engages the services of an employe.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,2 (d) "Labor dispute" means a strike or a lockout arising out of a controversy concerning wages, hours or conditions of employment, or concerning the representation of persons in negotiating, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange wages, hours or conditions of employment.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,6 (e) "Labor organization" means any employe organization in which employes participate that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of engaging in collective bargaining with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes and wages, hours and conditions of employment.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,8 (f) "Lockout" means the barring of one or more employes belonging to a labor organization from their employment by an employer as a part of a labor dispute.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,13 (g) "Strike" means a concerted work stoppage by employes, a concerted slowdown or other concerted interruption of operations or services by employes, or a concerted refusal by employes to perform their usual duties as employes, authorized or condoned by a labor organization for the purpose of enforcing demands upon an employer.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,16 (h) "Strikebreaker" means any person who at least twice during the previous 12-month period has accepted employment for the duration of a strike or a lockout in place of employes who are involved in a strike or lockout of a specific employer.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,18 (2) Notwithstanding any contracts or other agreements entered into between a district and an employer under s. 229.68:

AB1-ASA1-AA13,2,21 (a) No employer may use a baseball park facility if the employer offers, or grants, the status of permanent employe to a person who during a strike or a lockout performed for the employer the duties of an employe in place of that employe.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,3,2 (b) No employer may use a baseball park facility if the employer offers, or grants, any employment preference to any person who during a strike or a lockout was employed by the employer, or who during a strike or a lockout indicated a willingness to be employed by the employer, over a person to whom all of the following apply:

AB1-ASA1-AA13,3,4 1. That person was an employe of the employer when the strike or lockout began.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,3,6 2. That person has exercised through the labor organization that was involved in the strike or lockout any right guaranteed under s. 111.04, 111.70 (2) or 111.82.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,3,8 3. That person is working for, or has unconditionally offered to return to work for, the employer.

AB1-ASA1-AA13,3,12 (3) Notwithstanding any contracts or other agreements entered into between a district and an employer under s. 229.68, the provisions of s. 103.545 (2) to (6), as they apply to a strikebreaker and an employer under that section, apply to an employer and a strikebreaker under this section.".

AB1-ASA1-AA13,3,14 (End)