Bill Text: NY S02264 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires subsidiaries of certain authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S02264 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02264-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2264

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the  civil
     2  service  law,  as amended by chapter 814 of the laws of 2021, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) In the event that the board certifies that a voluntary  resolution
     5  of the contract negotiations between either (i) the New York city trans-
     6  it  authority  (hereinafter  referred  to as TA-public employer) and the
     7  public employee organization certified or recognized  to  represent  the
     8  majority  of employees of such TA-public employer, or (ii) the metropol-
     9  itan transportation authority, including its subsidiaries, the New  York
    10  city  transit  authority,  including  its subsidiary, and the Triborough
    11  bridge and tunnel authority (all hereinafter referred to  as  MTA-public
    12  employer)  and a public employee organization certified or recognized to
    13  represent employees of such  MTA-public  employer  not  subject  to  the
    14  jurisdiction  of  the  Federal  Railway Labor Act and not subject to the
    15  provisions of subparagraph (i) of this  paragraph,  which  has  made  an
    16  election  pursuant  to  paragraph  (f) of this subdivision, or (iii) the
    17  Niagara Frontier transportation authority, including  its  subsidiaries,
    18  the  Rochester-Genesee regional transportation authority, including  its
    19  subsidiaries, the capital district transportation  authority,  including
    20  its    subsidiaries,  and  the  central New York regional transportation
    21  authority, including  its  subsidiaries, (all hereinafter referred to as
    22  upstate TA-public employer) and the public employee organization  certi-
    23  fied  or recognized to represent the employees of such upstate TA-public
    24  employer, cannot be effected, or upon the joint request of the TA-public
    25  employer, the MTA-public employer (hereinafter jointly  referred  to  as

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03569-01-5
        S. 2264                             2

     1  public employer) or the upstate TA-public employer and any such affected
     2  employee  organization,  such  board shall refer the dispute to a public
     3  arbitration panel, consisting of one  member  appointed  by  the  public
     4  employer,  one  member  appointed  by  the employee organization and one
     5  public member appointed jointly by  the  public  employer  and  employee
     6  organization  who shall be selected within ten days after receipt by the
     7  board of a petition for creation of the  arbitration  panel.  If  either
     8  party fails to designate its member to the public arbitration panel, the
     9  board  shall promptly, upon receipt of a request by either party, desig-
    10  nate a member associated in interest with the public employer or employ-
    11  ee organization [he] such member is to represent. Each of the respective
    12  parties is to bear the cost of its member appointed or designated to the
    13  arbitration panel and each of the respective parties is to share equally
    14  the cost of the public member. If, within seven days after  the  mailing
    15  date,  the  parties  are unable to agree upon the one public member, the
    16  board shall submit to the parties a  list  of  qualified,  disinterested
    17  persons  for the selection of the public member. Each party shall alter-
    18  nately strike from the list one of the names with the order of  striking
    19  determined by lot, until the remaining one person shall be designated as
    20  public  member.  This  process  shall  be  completed within five days of
    21  receipt of this list. The parties shall notify the board of  the  desig-
    22  nated  public  member.  The  public member shall be chosen as [chairman]
    23  chair.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    25  the  amendments  to paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the
    26  civil service law made by section one of this act shall not  affect  the
    27  expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.