2022 Senate Bill 914

Democratic union/labor package – impose binding arbitration mandate on all state agencies

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 24, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Betty Alexander (D-5)

To impose a “binding arbitration” mandate on every state agency, not just the state police. This would invest binding arbitration panels with the power to impose contract terms between state agencies and employees when a collective bargaining “impasse” is claimed. The legislature could only reduce or reject the ordered pay increases with a two-thirds majority vote in both houses. This is tie-barred to Senate Joint Resolution M, meaning it cannot become law unless that is placed before voters and approved first. SJR M would impose a binding arbitration mandate on every state agency in the constitution.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations