SB70-SSA2-SA1,284,3 111.70 (1) (f) “Fair-share agreement" means an agreement between a municipal employer and a labor organization that represents public safety employees or, transit employees , or a frontline worker under which all or any of the public safety employees or transit employees in the collective bargaining unit or all or any of the employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker are required to pay their proportionate share of the cost of the collective bargaining process and contract administration measured by the amount of dues uniformly required of all members.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,579 Section 579. 111.70 (1) (fd) of the statutes is created to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,284,6 111.70 (1) (fd) “Frontline worker” means a municipal employee who is determined to be a frontline worker under sub. (4) (bm) 2.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,580 Section 580. 111.70 (1) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,284,9 111.70 (1) (fm) “General municipal employee" means a municipal employee who is not a public safety employee or, a transit employee, or a frontline worker.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,581 Section 581. 111.70 (1) (n) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,284,15 111.70 (1) (n) “Referendum" means a proceeding conducted by the commission in which public safety employees or transit employees in a collective bargaining unit or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker may cast a secret ballot on the question of authorizing a labor organization and the employer to continue a fair-share agreement.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,582 Section 582. 111.70 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,284,18 111.70 (1) (p) “Transit employee" means a municipal employee who is determined to be a transit employee under sub. (4) (bm) 1.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,583 Section 583. 111.70 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (2) (a) and amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,286,2 111.70 (2) (a) Municipal employees have the right of self-organization, and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Municipal employees have the right to refrain from any and all such activities. A general municipal employee may not be covered by a fair-share agreement unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker. Unless the general municipal employee is covered by a fair-share agreement, a general municipal employee has the right to refrain from paying dues while remaining a member of a collective bargaining unit. A public safety employee or, a transit employee, however, or a municipal employee in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker may be covered by a fair-share agreement and be required to pay dues in the manner provided in a the fair-share agreement; a fair-share agreement covering a public safety employee or a transit employee must contain a provision requiring the municipal employer to deduct the amount of dues as certified by the labor organization from the earnings of the employee affected by the fair-share agreement and to pay the amount deducted to the labor organization. A fair-share agreement covering a public safety employee or transit employee is subject to the right of the municipal employer or a labor organization to petition the commission to conduct a referendum. Such petition must be supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the employees in the collective bargaining unit desire that the fair-share agreement be terminated. Upon so finding, the commission shall conduct a referendum. If the continuation of the agreement is not supported by at least the majority of the eligible employees, it shall terminate. The commission shall declare any fair-share agreement suspended upon such conditions and for such time as the commission decides whenever it finds that the labor organization involved has refused on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, creed, or sex to receive as a member any public safety employee or transit eligible municipal employee of the municipal employer in the bargaining unit involved, and such agreement is subject to this duty of the commission. Any of the parties to such agreement or any public safety employee or transit municipal employee covered by the agreement may come before the commission, as provided in s. 111.07, and ask the performance of this duty.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,584 Section 584. 111.70 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,286,10 111.70 (2) (b) General municipal employees who are not in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker have the right to have their municipal employer consult with them, through a representative of their own choosing, with no intention of reaching an agreement, with respect to wages, hours, and conditions of employment. The right may be exercised either when the municipal employer proposes or implements policy changes affecting wages, hours, or conditions of employment or, if no policy changes are proposed or implemented, at least quarterly.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,585 Section 585. 111.70 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,286,15 111.70 (3) (a) 3. To encourage or discourage a membership in any labor organization by discrimination in regard to hiring, tenure, or other terms or conditions of employment; but the prohibition shall not apply to a fair-share agreement that covers public safety employees or transit employees.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,586 Section 586. 111.70 (3) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,287,2 111.70 (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, or municipal employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker, 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 a collective bargaining unit containing only general municipal employees, that was previously agreed upon by the parties with respect to wages.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,587 Section 587. 111.70 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,287,11 111.70 (3) (a) 6. To deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a public safety employee or, a transit employee, or a municipal employee who is in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker 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 municipal 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.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,588 Section 588. 111.70 (3) (a) 9. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,287,17 111.70 (3) (a) 9. If the collective bargaining unit contains a public safety employee or, transit employee, or frontline worker, after a collective bargaining agreement expires and before another collective bargaining agreement takes effect, to fail to follow any fair-share agreement in the expired collective bargaining agreement.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,589 Section 589. 111.70 (3g) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,287,22 111.70 (3g) Wage deduction prohibition. A municipal employer may not deduct labor organization dues from the earnings of a general municipal employee, unless the general municipal employee is in a collective bargaining unit that contains a frontline worker, or from the earnings of a supervisor.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,590 Section 590. 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,287,24 111.70 (4) (bm) (title) Transit employee or frontline worker determination.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,591 Section 591. 111.70 (4) (bm) of the statutes is renumbered 111.70 (4) (bm) 1.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,592 Section 592. 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

SB70-SSA2-SA1,288,7 111.70 (4) (bm) 2. The commission shall determine that a municipal employee is a frontline worker if the commission finds that the municipal employee has regular job duties that include interacting with members of the public or with large populations of people or that directly involve the maintenance of public works. The commission may not determine that a public safety employee or a transit employee is a frontline worker.

SB70-SSA2-SA1,593 Section 593. 111.70 (4) (cg) (title), 1., 2., 3., 4. and 5. of the statutes are amended to read: