PRINTER'S NO. 826
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
842
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY ROWE, GLEIM, GROVE, KAUFFMAN, KEEFER, B. MILLER,
MOUL, RYAN AND ZIMMERMAN, MARCH 9, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, MARCH 9, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), entitled
"An act establishing rights in public employes to organize
and bargain collectively through selected representatives;
defining public employes to include employes of nonprofit
organizations and institutions; providing compulsory
mediation and fact-finding, for collective bargaining
impasses; providing arbitration for certain public employes
for collective bargaining impasses; defining the scope of
collective bargaining; establishing unfair employe and
employer practices; prohibiting strikes for certain public
employes; permitting strikes under limited conditions;
providing penalties for violations; and establishing
procedures for implementation," in definitions, further
providing for definitions; and, in employee rights, providing
for notice of right to resign membership.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 301(18) of the act of July 23, 1970
(P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public Employe Relations Act, is
amended to read:
Section 301. As used in this act:
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(18) "Maintenance of membership" means that all employes who
have joined an employe organization or who join the employe
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organization in the future must remain members for the duration
of a collective bargaining agreement so providing with the
proviso that any such employe or employes may resign from such
employe organization during a period of [fifteen] forty-five
days prior to the expiration of any such agreement.
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Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 402. (a) A public employer shall notify, in
writing, all public employes in a collective bargaining unit of
their right to resign their membership in an employe
organization during a period of forty-five days prior to the
expiration of their collective bargaining agreement. Notice
under this subsection shall be provided in January of each year.
(b) An employe organization representing members of a
collective bargaining unit shall notify, in writing, the members
of their right to resign their membership from the employe
organization within a period of ten business days before the
forty-five-day period prior to the expiration of their
collective bargaining agreement.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 30 days.
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