Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2007

A bill to provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or their political subdivisions.

10/1/2007--Introduced.
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2007 - Provides collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by states or local governments. Directs the Federal Labor Relations Authority (Authority) to determine whether state law provides specified rights and responsibilities for public safety officers, including:
(1) granting public safety employees the right to form and join a labor organization which excludes management and supervisory employees, and which is, or seeks to be, recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for such employees; and
(2) requiring public safety employers to recognize and agree to bargain with the employees' labor organization. Requires the Authority to issue in accordance with the public safety employee rights and responsibilities regulations establishing collective bargaining procedures for public safety employers and employees in states that do not substantially provide for such rights and responsibilities. Directs the Authority , in such cases, to:
(1) determine the appropriateness of units for labor organization representation;
(2) supervise or conduct elections to determine whether a labor organization has been selected as an exclusive representative by a voting majority of the employees in an appropriate unit;
(3) resolve issues relating to the duty to bargain in good faith;
(4) conduct hearings and resolve complaints of unfair labor practices; and
(5) resolve exceptions to arbitrator's awards. Grants a public safety employer, employee, or labor organization the right to seek enforcement of such Authority regulations and orders through appropriate state courts. Prohibits public safety employers, employees, and labor organizations from engaging in lockouts, sickouts, work slowdowns, or strikes. Provides that existing collective bargaining units and agreements shall not be invalidated by this Act.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH]
• and 36 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Evan Bayh [D, IN]
  • Sen. Joseph Biden [D, DE]
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA]
  • Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Norm Coleman
  • Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
  • Pete Domenici
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT]
  • Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT]
  • Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR]
  • Sen. Mel Martinez [R, FL]
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO]
  • Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK]
  • Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
  • Barack Obama
  • Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
  • Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
  • Gordon Smith
  • Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
  • Sen. Arlen Specter [D, PA]
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
  • Ted Stevens
  • John Sununu
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.2123

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October 01, 2007

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• Introduced on Oct 01, 2007.
• Oct 01, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.980

Related Issue Areas:

• Government employees
• Actions and defenses
• Administrative procedure
• Administrative remedies
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• Appellate courts
• Collective bargaining
• Criminal justice
• Elections
• Emergency management
• Emergency medicine
• Employee rights
• Employee-management relations in government
• Executive departments
• Federal Labor Relations Authority
• Federal preemption
• Fire fighters
• Government employee unions
• Industrial arbitration
• Injunctions
• Judicial review
• Jurisdiction
• Labor
• Labor contracts
• Law
• Law enforcement officers
• Local employees
• Local laws
• Lockouts
• Mediation
• Medical care
• Medical personnel
• Medicine
• Paramedical personnel
• Police
• Public sector strikes
• State and local government
• State courts
• State employees
• State laws
• State-local relations
• Unfair labor practices

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December 05, 2008 Alliance for Worker Freedom

Last Action: H.R. 980 passed House (314-97) (Vote # 633, 7/17/2007); Senate cloture motion withdrawn by unanimous consent (5/15/2008) / S. 2123 referred to Senate committee (10/1/2007). ...

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November 02, 2008 Mandatory Public-Safety Collective Bargaining Could be Made Less ...

As written, S. 2123 would force every state to subject merit promotions and disciplinary standards to collective bargaining, protecting irresponsible workers at the expense of public safety. Congress should exempt merit promotions, ...

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October 24, 2008 North Carolina’s Union Movement » Sen. John McCain Doesn’t Like Unions

McCain Did NOT Co-Sponsor the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act. McCain did not co-sponsor S. 2123, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, legislation to grant fire fighters and police officers minimum ...

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