1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to public employment; adding certain 
  1.3             supervisory or confidential employees to the list of 
  1.4             employees who may be represented by the same exclusive 
  1.5             representative that represents employees who are not 
  1.6             supervisory or confidential; amending Minnesota 
  1.7             Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 179A.06, subdivision 
  1.8             2. 
  1.9   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1999 Supplement, section 
  1.11  179A.06, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.12     Subd. 2.  [RIGHT TO ORGANIZE.] Public employees have the 
  1.13  right to form and join labor or employee organizations, and have 
  1.14  the right not to form and join such organizations.  Public 
  1.15  employees in an appropriate unit have the right by secret ballot 
  1.16  to designate an exclusive representative to negotiate grievance 
  1.17  procedures and the terms and conditions of employment with their 
  1.18  employer.  Confidential employees of the state, confidential 
  1.19  court employees, and confidential University of Minnesota 
  1.20  employees are excluded from bargaining.  Supervisory and 
  1.21  managerial court employees are excluded from bargaining.  Other 
  1.22  confidential employees, supervisory employees, principals, and 
  1.23  assistant principals may form their own organizations.  An 
  1.24  employer shall extend exclusive recognition to a representative 
  1.25  of or an organization of supervisory or confidential employees, 
  1.26  or principals and assistant principals, for the purpose of 
  1.27  negotiating terms or conditions of employment, in accordance 
  2.1   with sections 179A.01 to 179A.25, applicable to essential 
  2.2   employees.  
  2.3      Supervisory or confidential employee organizations shall 
  2.4   not participate in any capacity in any negotiations which 
  2.5   involve units of employees other than supervisory or 
  2.6   confidential employees.  Except for organizations which 
  2.7   represent supervisors who are:  (1) firefighters, emergency 
  2.8   medical service employees certified under section 144E.28, 911 
  2.9   system public safety dispatchers, peace officers subject to 
  2.10  licensure under sections 626.84 to 626.863, guards at 
  2.11  correctional facilities, or employees at hospitals other than 
  2.12  state hospitals; and (2) not state or University of Minnesota 
  2.13  employees, a supervisory or confidential employee organization 
  2.14  which is affiliated with another employee organization which is 
  2.15  the exclusive representative of nonsupervisory or 
  2.16  nonconfidential employees of the same public employer shall not 
  2.17  be certified, or act as, an exclusive representative for the 
  2.18  supervisory or confidential employees.  For the purpose of this 
  2.19  subdivision, affiliation means either direct or indirect and 
  2.20  includes affiliation through a federation or joint body of 
  2.21  employee organizations.