Assembly Bill A9419

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires various 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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2013-A9419 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7729
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5303, S4746
2017-2018: A6233, S698
2019-2020: A5342, S1165, S5737

2013-A9419 (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.

2013-A9419 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  9419

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 29, 2014
                               ___________

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 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
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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