Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2010

Bill: 111-s-3991
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2010-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Judicial review and appeals
Labor-management relations
Law enforcement officers
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: 
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2010 - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by states or local governments.
 
Directs the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to determine whether a state substantially provides for 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, supervisory, and confidential 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 FLRA 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 FLRA, 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 arbitrators' awards. Grants a public safety employer, employee, or labor organization the right to seek enforcement of FLRA regulations and orders through appropriate state courts. 
Prohibits public safety employers, employees, and labor organizations from engaging in lockouts, sickouts, work slowdowns, or strikes. Waives federal preemption of state law governing strikes by public safety officers. 
Provides that existing collective bargaining units and agreements shall not be invalidated by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55 - 43. Record Vote Number: 266. (consideration: CR S8626-8627; text: CR S8626)
action_date: 2010-12-08
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S8613-8617, CR S8617)
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S8552)
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S8552; text: CR S8552)
action_date: 2010-12-06
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S8552)
action_date: 2010-12-01
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 662.
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8299-8301)
action_date: 2010-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate