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SENATE
BILL 5105
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Passed
Legislature - 1992 Regular Session
State
of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
Read
first time January 21, 1991. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.Revising collective bargaining provisions for superior court employees.
AN ACT
Relating to collective bargaining for superior court employees; and amending
RCW 41.56.020 and 41.56.030.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
41.56.020 and 1989 c 275 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
This
chapter shall apply to any county or municipal corporation, or any political
subdivision of the state of Washington, including district courts and
superior courts, except as otherwise provided by RCW 54.04.170, 54.04.180,
and chapters 41.59, 47.64, and 53.18 RCW. The Washington state patrol shall be
considered a public employer of state patrol officers appointed under RCW
43.43.020.
Sec.
2. RCW
41.56.030 and 1989 c 275 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
As
used in this chapter:
(1)
"Public employer" means any officer, board, commission, council, or
other person or body acting on behalf of any public body governed by this
chapter as designated by RCW 41.56.020, or any subdivision of such public
body. For the purposes of this section, the public employer of district court or
superior court employees for wage-related matters is the respective county
legislative authority, or person or body acting on behalf of the legislative
authority, and the public employer for nonwage-related matters is the judge or
judge's designee of the respective district court or superior court.
(2)
"Public employee" means any employee of a public employer except any
person (a) elected by popular vote, or (b) appointed to office pursuant to
statute, ordinance or resolution for a specified term of office by the
executive head or body of the public employer, or (c) whose duties as deputy,
administrative assistant or secretary necessarily imply a confidential
relationship to the executive head or body of the applicable bargaining unit,
or any person elected by popular vote or appointed to office pursuant to
statute, ordinance or resolution for a specified term of office by the
executive head or body of the public employer, or (d) who is a personal
assistant to a district court judge, superior court judge, or
court commissioner. For the purpose of (d) of this subsection, no more than
one assistant for each judge or commissioner may be excluded from a bargaining
unit.
(3)
"Bargaining representative" means any lawful organization which has
as one of its primary purposes the representation of employees in their
employment relations with employers.
(4)
"Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual
obligations of the public employer and the exclusive bargaining representative
to meet at reasonable times, to confer and negotiate in good faith, and to
execute a written agreement with respect to grievance procedures and collective
negotiations on personnel matters, including wages, hours and working
conditions, which may be peculiar to an appropriate bargaining unit of such
public employer, except that by such obligation neither party shall be
compelled to agree to a proposal or be required to make a concession unless
otherwise provided in this chapter. In the case of the Washington state
patrol, "collective bargaining" shall not include wages and
wage-related matters.
(5)
"Commission" means the public employment relations commission.
(6)
"Executive director" means the executive director of the commission.
(7)
"Uniformed personnel" means (a) law enforcement officers as defined
in RCW 41.26.030 as now or hereafter amended, of cities with a population of
fifteen thousand or more or law enforcement officers employed by the governing
body of any county of the second class or larger, or (b) fire fighters as that
term is defined in RCW 41.26.030, as now or hereafter amended.
