Public employees; collective bargaining.

Collective bargaining for public employees.Provides for collective bargaining by public employees. The billcreates the Public Employee Relations Board, which will determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employeesand local government employees. The measure requires public employersand employee organizations that are exclusive bargaining representativesto meet at reasonable times to negotiate in good faith with respectto wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. Themeasure repeals a provision enacted in 2013 that declares that, inany procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorizationof a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individualemployee to vote by secret ballot is a fundamental right that shallbe guaranteed from infringement.