State of Wisconsin-Dec. City of Milwaukee-Dec. Pre-employment contract is not a mandatory subject of bargaining but employer must bargain over the impact of such a contract on employe wages, hours and conditions of employment. Despite pendency of an election proceeding, County violated its duty to bargain by failing to place new professional positions in the existing professional unit and by unilaterally establishing the employes' wages hours and conditions of employment. County ordered to bargain the wages, hours and conditions of employment but the Commission rejects the Union request that the unilaterally created wages hours and conditions of employment be rescinded before bargaining begins.
Comparability allows for the balancing of benefits improvements against benefit reductions.
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