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Public Sector Collective Bargaining Laws

NOTE: These links go to the most current version of the law available on the Web. They may not be the most current law and should be used with caution.

Alaska

• Public Employment Relations Act — Alaska Statutes Title 23, Ch. 40, § 23.40.070 et seq.
• Employees of the Alaska Railroad Corporation — Alaska Statutes Title 42, Ch. 40, § 42.40.720 et seq.

California

• State Employer-Employee Relations (Ralph C. Dills Act) — Government Code §§ 3512-3524
• Excluded Employees Bill of Rights — Government Code §§ 3525 - 3539.5
• Local Public Employee Organizations (Meyers-Milias-Brown Act) — Government Code §§ 3500-3510
• Public Educational Employer-Employee Relations Act — Government Code §§ 3540 - 3549.3
• Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations — Government Code §§ 3560-3599
• Fire Fighters: Right to Bargain Collectively — Labor Code §§ 1960-1964

Connecticut

• Municipal Employee Relations Act — Conn. Gen. Stats., Title 7, § 7-467 et seq.
• State Employee Collective Bargaining Act — Conn. Gen. Stats., Title 5, § 5-270 et seq.
• Teachers' bargaining rights — Conn. Gen. Stats., Title 10, Ch. 166, § 10-153a et seq.

Delaware

• Public Employment Relations Act — Del. Code Ann. Title 19, §§ 1301-1318
• Police Officers' and Firefighters' Employment Relations Act — Del. Code Ann. Title 19, §§ 1601-1618
• Public School Employment Relations Act — Del. Code Ann. Title 14, §§ 4001-4018

District of Columbia

• Public employee bargaining rights — D.C. Code Ann. § 1-617.01 et seq.

Florida

• Public Employees Act — Fla. Stats., Ch. 447, § 447.201 et seq.

Georgia

• Firefighters' bargaining rights — Ga. Code Ann. §§ 45-19-1 to 45-19-5

Hawaii

• Public employee bargaining rights — Hawaii Rev. Stats., Ch. 89, § 89-1 et seq.

Idaho

• Teachers' bargaining rights — Idaho Code §§ 33-1271 to 33-1276
• Firefighters' bargaining rights — Idaho Code §§ 44-1801 to 44-1811

Illinois

• Illinois Public Labor Relations Act — 5 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 315/1 - 315/27
• Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act — 115 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/1 - 5/20

Iowa

• Public Employment Relations Act — Iowa Code §§ 20.1 - 20.26
• Child care providers: Executive Order No. 45 and Executive Order No. 46, 2006

Kansas

• Look up acts in the Kansas Statutes:
• Public Employer-Employee Relations Act — Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 75-4321 to 75-4337
• Teachers' bargaining rights — Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5410 to 72-5437
• Executive Order 07-21 on child care providers

Kentucky

• Firefighters' bargaining rights — Kentucky Rev. Statutes, Ch. 345, § 345.010 et seq.
• County police bargaining rights — Kentucky Rev. Statutes, Ch. 78, § 78.470 et seq.
• Local police bargaining rights — Kentucky Rev. Statutes, Ch. 67, § 67C.400 et seq.
• Urban-county corrections personnel, firefighters, police officers bargaining rights — Kentucky Rev. Statutes, Ch. 67, § 67A.6901 et seq.

Maine

• Judicial Employees Labor Relations Act — Me. Rev. Stat. Ann., Title 26, §§ 1281-1294
• State Employee Labor Relations Act — Me. Rev. Stat. Ann., Title 26, §§ 979-979-Q
• University of Maine System Labor Relations Act — Me. Rev. Stat. Ann., Title 26, §§ 1021-1035
• Municipal Public Employees Labor Relations Law — Me. Rev. Stat. Ann., Title 26, §§ 961-974

Maryland

• State employees collective bargaining law — Md. Code Ann., State Personnel and Pensions § 3-101 et seq.
• Noncertificated public school employees bargaining rights — Md. Code Ann., Educ. §§ 6-501 - 6-510
• Teachers — Md. Code Ann., Educ. §§ 6-401 - 6-411
• Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission employees — Md. Code Ann., art. 28, § 5-114.1
• Executive order on collective bargaining rights for home care providers
• Executive order on collective bargaining rights for child care providers

Massachusetts

• Public employee bargaining rights — Mass. Ann. Laws, Ch. 150E, §§ 1-15

Michigan

• Public Employment Relations Act — Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. §§ 423.201 to 423.216
• Michigan Civil Service Commission Employee Relations Policy — Michigan Department of Civil Service Rules, Chapter 6
• Michigan Const. Art. XI
• Police Troopers and Sergeants — Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. §§ 423.271 to 423.286
• Police and Firefighters — Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 423.231 to 423.246

Minnesota

• Public Employment Labor Relations Act — Minn. Stat. §§ 179A.01 - 179A.25

Missouri

• Public employee bargaining rights — Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 105.500 - 105.530

Montana

• Collective Bargaining for Public Employees — Mont. Code Ann. §§ 39-31-101 to 39-31-409
• Collective Bargaining for Nurses — Mont. Code Ann. §§ 39-32-101 to 39-32-114

Nebraska

• State Employees Collective Bargaining Act — Nebraska Const. Article 13, Ch. 81, § 81-1369 et seq. (must scroll to section)
• Industrial Relations Act — Nebraska Const. Article 8, Ch. 48, § 48-801 et seq. (must scroll to section)

  NOTE: Both laws are also available on the NCIR Web site.

Nevada

• Local Government Employee-Management Relations Act — Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 288.010-288.280

New Hampshire

• Public Employee Labor Relations — N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 273-A.1 to 273-A.17
• Dog and Horse Racing Employees — N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 273-C.1 to 273-C.14

New Jersey

• New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act — N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 34:13A-1 to 34:13A-13
• Police and Fire Public Interest Arbitration Reform Act — N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 34:13A-14 to 34:13A-21

New Mexico

• Public Employee Bargaining Act — New Mexico Statutes Annotated 10-7E-1 to 10-7E-26

New York

• Public Employees' Fair Employment Act (Taylor Act) — N.Y. Civ. Serv. Law §§ 200-214
• New York City Employees — N.Y. City Charter Ch.54; N.Y. Admin. Code, Sec. 1173-1.0 et seq.
• Executive Order No. 12: Representation of Child Care Providers, May 8, 2007

NOTE: The NY City Charter and Administrative Code are available online at http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi. Click on "Laws of New York" then scroll down to "Miscellaneous", under which you will find these codes.

North Dakota

• No public sector bargaining laws. Public employee right to organize granted under the Public Employee Relations Act — N. D. Cent. Code Title 34, Chap. 34-11.1

Ohio

• Public Employees' Collective Bargaining — Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §§ 4117.01-4117.23

Oklahoma

• School employees — Okla. Stat. Ann., Title 70, Ch. 70, §§ 509.1 - 509.10
• Fire and Police Arbitration Law — Okla. Stat. Ann., Title 11, Ch. 256, §§ 51-101 to 51-112
• Oklahoma Municipal Employee Collective Bargaining Act — Okla. Stat. Ann., Title 11, §§ 51-201 to 51-220

Oregon

• Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act — O.R.S. § 243.650 et seq.

Pennsylvania

• Public Employee Relations Act — Pa. Stat. Ann., Title 43, §§ 1101.101 - 1101.2301
• Police and firefighters — Pa. Stat. Ann., Title 43, §§ 217.1-217.10 (not online)

Rhode Island

• Organization of State Employees — R.I. General Laws, § 36-11-1 et seq.
• Arbitration of Labor Controversies — R.I. General Laws, § 28-9-1 et seq.

South Dakota

• Public Employees' Unions — S.D. Codified Laws §§ 3-18-1 to 3-18-17

Tennessee

• Education Professional Negotiations Act — Tenn. Code. Ann. §§ 49-5-601 to 49-5-61

Texas

• Fire and Police Employee Relations — Tex. Loc. Gov't Code Ann. § 174.001 et seq.

Vermont

• State Employees Labor Relations Act — Vt. Stat. Ann., Title 3, Ch. 27, §§ 901-1006
• Vermont Municipal Labor Relations Act — Vt. Stat. Ann., Title 21, Ch. 22, §§ 1721-1735
• Vermont State Labor Relations Act — Vt. Stat. Ann., Title 21, Ch. 19, §§ 1501-1623
• Labor Relations for Teachers Act — Vt. Stat. Ann., Title 16, Ch. 57, §§ 1981-2010

Washington

• State civil service employees' bargaining rights — Was. Rev. Code § 41.06.150 et seq.
• Public Employees' Collective Bargaining — Was. Rev. Code § 41.56.010 et seq.
• Educational Employment Relations Act — Was. Rev. Code § 41.59.010 et seq.
• Collective Bargaining - Academic Personnel in Community Colleges — Was. Rev. Code § 28B.52.010 et seq.
• Marine Employees - Public Employment Relations — Was. Rev. Code § 47.64.011 et seq.
• Port District Employees - Collective bargaining and arbitration — Was. Rev. Code § 53.18.010 et seq.

Wisconsin

• State employees' bargaining rights — Wis. Stat. Ann. §§ 111.80 - 111.97
• Municipal employees' bargaining rights — Wis. Stat. Ann. §§ 111.70 - 111.77

Wyoming

• Collective Bargaining for Fire Fighters — Wyo. Stat. Ann. §§ 27-10-101 to 27-10-109

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