PRINTER'S NO. 318
No. 302 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY O'DONNELL, McGEEHAN, MAIALE, MELIO, NAHILL,
CORRIGAN, DALEY, PESCI AND GIGLIOTTI, FEBRUARY 6, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, FEBRUARY 6, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 22 (Detectives and Private Police) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting strikes by
3 certain railroad or street railway police; and further
4 providing for binding arbitration for collective bargaining
5 impasse for certain railroad or street railway police.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Title 22 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
9 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
10 § 3306. Collective bargaining and strikes.
11 (a) Binding arbitration.--Where representatives of railway
12 or street railway policemen employed by an authority operating
13 under Article III of the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8),
14 known as the Pennsylvania Urban Mass Transportation Law, and
15 including an authority operating under the act of April 6, 1956
16 (1955 P.L.1414, No.465), known as the Second Class County Port
17 Authority Act, have reached an impasse in collective bargaining
18 and mediation as required in Article VIII of the act of July 23,
19 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public Employe Relations
1 Act, the impasse shall be submitted to a panel of arbitrators,
2 whose decision shall be final and binding upon both parties.
3 (b) Selection and cost of arbitration.--Panels of
4 arbitrators shall be selected and the cost of arbitration shall
5 be paid in accordance with the procedures applicable to prison
6 guards and court personnel under Article VIII of the Public
7 Employe Relations Act.
8 (c) Strikes prohibited.--Strikes by units of railway or
9 street railway policemen entitled to binding arbitration under
10 this section are prohibited at any time. If a strike occurs the
11 public employer shall forthwith initiate, in the court of common
12 pleas of the jurisdiction where the strike occurs, an action for
13 appropriate equitable relief, including, but not limited to,
14 injunctions.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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