SB 1433 Summary

• Establishes the Public Employee Labor Relations Board to oversee collective bargaining between public employers and employee labor organizations for wages, hours, and employment conditions.

• Grants public employees rights to form unions, engage in collective bargaining through exclusive representatives, and present grievances; prohibits strikes and lockouts by both employees and employers.

• Creates procedures for union certification through secret ballot elections (requiring 30% petition signatures), decertification, appropriate bargaining unit designation based on occupational groups, and grievance arbitration with binding final decisions.

• Mandates good faith negotiation between public employers and certified exclusive representatives, with mediation and arbitration procedures for impasses; allows payroll deduction of union dues as a bargaining subject.

• Establishes the Public Employee Labor Relations Board with three members appointed by the governor and allows political subdivisions to create local boards; board terminates July 1, 2029, with related statutes repealed January 1, 2030.