HF 1400

as introduced - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026) Posted on 02/24/2025 03:26pm

A bill for an act
relating to public unions; modifying circumstances when supervisory employee
organizations can act as exclusive representative; amending Minnesota Statutes
2024, section 179A.06, subdivision 2.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 179A.06, subdivision 2, is amended to read:

Subd. 2.

Right to organize.

(a) Public employees have the right to form and join labor
or employee organizations, and have the right not to form and join such organizations.
Public employees in an appropriate unit have the right by secret ballot to designate an
exclusive representative to negotiate grievance procedures and the terms and conditions of
employment with their employer. Confidential employees of the state, confidential court
employees, and confidential University of Minnesota employees are excluded from
bargaining. Supervisory and managerial court employees are excluded from bargaining.
Supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees of Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc.,
are excluded from bargaining. Other confidential employees, supervisory employees,
principals, and assistant principals may form their own organizations. An employer shall
extend exclusive recognition to a representative of or an organization of supervisory or
confidential employees, or principals and assistant principals, for the purpose of negotiating
terms or conditions of employment, in accordance with sections 179A.01 to 179A.25,
applicable to essential employees.

(b) Supervisory or confidential employee organizations shall not participate in any
capacity in any negotiations which involve units of employees other than supervisory or
confidential employees. Except for organizations which represent supervisors who are deleted text begin : (1) deleted text end
firefighters, emergency medical service employees certified under section 144E.28, 911
system public safety dispatchers, peace officers subject to licensure under sections 626.84
to 626.863, guards at correctional facilities, or employees at hospitals other than state
hospitals deleted text begin ; and (2) not state or University of Minnesota employees deleted text end , a supervisory or
confidential employee organization which is affiliated with another employee organization
which is the exclusive representative of nonsupervisory or nonconfidential employees of
the same public employer shall not be certified, or act as, an exclusive representative for
the supervisory or confidential employees. For the purpose of this subdivision, affiliation
means either direct or indirect and includes affiliation through a federation or joint body of
employee organizations.