Minnesota Session Laws - 2000, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 387-S.F.No. 2848 
                  An act relating to public employment; adding certain 
                  supervisory or confidential employees to the list of 
                  employees who may be represented by the same exclusive 
                  representative that represents employees who are not 
                  supervisory or confidential; amending Minnesota 
                  Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 179A.06, subdivision 
                  2. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 
        179A.06, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 2.  [RIGHT TO ORGANIZE.] 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.  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.  
           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:  (1) 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; and (2) not state or University of Minnesota 
        employees, 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. 
           Presented to the governor April 10, 2000 
           Signed by the governor April 13, 2000, 4:49 p.m.