NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7914

Senate Bill S7914

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires certain public transit authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration

download bill text pdf

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

Please enter your contact information

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

A valid email address is required.

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

View Actions

	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 28, 2020	committed to rules
Mar 18, 2020	advanced to third reading
Mar 11, 2020	2nd report cal.
Mar 10, 2020	1st report cal.598
Mar 02, 2020	referred to civil service and pensions

Votes

- Mar 10, 2020 - Civil Service And Pensions Committee Vote
  S7914
  
  6
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Civil Service And Pensions Committee Vote: Mar 10, 2020
      
      aye (6)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Funke
      
      Gounardes
      
      Jackson
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Savino
      
      nay (1)
      
      Borrello

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9074
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §209, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S3537, A4077

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7914

SPONSOR: KENNEDY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to resolution of
disputes in the course of collective negotiations

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one amends 208(5)(a) of the civil service law by adding the four
upstate transit authorities to the binding arbitration provisions
included in this section.

Section two sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Current law requires any contract disputes between the New York City
Transit Authority (NYCTA) and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)
and its employees to be referred to a public arbitration panel to

resolve impasses in collective negotiations. This bill would expand the
provisions of this law to include the employees of the upstate transit
authorities: the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Roches-
ter-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District
Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transporta-
tion Authority.

Compulsory arbitration allows for a fair bargaining process, while help-
ing to get contract negotiations to a resolution faster. The MTA and
NYCTA area has had binding arbitration since 1989, which has helped lead
to very few service interruptions. Failure to expand this provision to
the upstate transit authorities creates a needless distinction between
transit workers upstate and transit workers downstate. Transit workers
upstate deserve to have the same protections as those downstate.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.5737/A.5342: Vetoed by Governor
S.698/A.6233: Passed Assembly
S.4746/A.5303 of 2015-2016;Referred to Rules
S.7729/A.9419 of 2014; Referred to Civil Service and Pensions

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that the
amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the civil
service law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expira-
tion of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.

2019-S7914 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7914
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 2, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the  civil
 service  law, as added by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a) In the event that the board certifies that a voluntary  resolution
 of the contract negotiations between either (i) the New York city trans-
 it  authority  (hereinafter  referred  to as TA-public employer) and the
 public employee organization certified or recognized  to  represent  the
 majority  of employees of such TA-public employer, or (ii) the metropol-
 itan transportation authority, including its subsidiaries, the New  York
 city  transit  authority,  including  its subsidiary, and the Triborough
 bridge and tunnel authority (all hereinafter referred to  as  MTA-public
 employer)  and a public employee organization certified or recognized to
 represent employees of such  MTA-public  employer  not  subject  to  the
 jurisdiction  of  the  Federal  Railway Labor Act and not subject to the
 provisions of subparagraph (i) [hereof] OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,  which  has
 made an election pursuant to paragraph (f) of this subdivision, OR (III)
 THE  NIAGARA  FRONTIER  TRANSPORTATION  AUTHORITY, THE ROCHESTER-GENESEE
 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, THE CAPITAL  DISTRICT  TRANSPORTATION
 AUTHORITY  AND  THE  CENTRAL  NEW YORK REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
 (ALL HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS  UPSTATE  TA-PUBLIC  EMPLOYER)  AND  THE
 PUBLIC  EMPLOYEE  ORGANIZATION  CERTIFIED OR RECOGNIZED TO REPRESENT THE
 EMPLOYEES OF SUCH UPSTATE TA-PUBLIC EMPLOYER,  cannot  be  effected,  or
 upon  the  joint  request of the TA-public employer [or], the MTA-public
 employer (hereinafter jointly referred to as  public  employer)  OR  THE
 UPSTATE  TA-PUBLIC EMPLOYER and any such affected employee organization,
 such board shall refer  the  dispute  to  a  public  arbitration  panel,
 consisting  of  one  member appointed by the public employer, one member
 appointed by the employee organization and one public  member  appointed
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07047-02-0

 S. 7914                             2
 
 jointly  by  the  public employer and employee organization who shall be
 selected within ten days after receipt by the board of  a  petition  for
 creation  of  the  arbitration panel. If either party fails to designate
 its  member  to  the public arbitration panel, the board shall promptly,
 upon receipt of a request by either party, designate a member associated
 in interest with the public employer or employee organization he  is  to
 represent.  Each  of  the  respective parties is to bear the cost of its
 member appointed or designated to the arbitration panel and each of  the
 respective  parties  is  to share equally the cost of the public member.
 If, within seven days after the mailing date, the parties are unable  to
 agree  upon the one public member, the board shall submit to the parties
 a list of qualified, disinterested persons  for  the  selection  of  the
 public member.  Each party shall alternately strike from the list one of
 the  names  with  the  order  of  striking  determined by lot, until the
 remaining one person shall be designated as public member. This  process
 shall be completed within five days of receipt of this list. The parties
 shall  notify  the  board  of  the  designated public member. The public
 member shall be chosen as chairman.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments  to paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the
 civil service law made by section one of this act shall not  affect  the
 expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.