1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to public employment labor relations; 
  1.3             defining radio communications operators as "essential 
  1.4             employees"; creating the radio communications 
  1.5             operators unit; amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, 
  1.6             sections 179A.03, subdivision 7; 179A.10, subdivision 
  1.7             2. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 179A.03, 
  1.10  subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 7.  [ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEE.] "Essential employee" means 
  1.12  firefighters, peace officers subject to licensure under sections 
  1.13  626.84 to 626.863, 911 system and police and fire department 
  1.14  public safety dispatchers, guards at correctional facilities, 
  1.15  confidential employees, supervisory employees, assistant county 
  1.16  attorneys, assistant city attorneys, principals, and assistant 
  1.17  principals.  However, for state employees, "essential employee" 
  1.18  means all employees in law enforcement, health care 
  1.19  professionals, radio communications operators, correctional 
  1.20  guards, professional engineering, and supervisory collective 
  1.21  bargaining units, irrespective of severance, and no other 
  1.22  employees.  For University of Minnesota employees, "essential 
  1.23  employee" means all employees in law enforcement, nursing 
  1.24  professional and supervisory units, irrespective of severance, 
  1.25  and no other employees.  "Firefighters" means salaried employees 
  1.26  of a fire department whose duties include, directly or 
  2.1   indirectly, controlling, extinguishing, preventing, detecting, 
  2.2   or investigating fires.  Employees for whom the state court 
  2.3   administrator is the negotiating employer are not essential 
  2.4   employees. 
  2.5      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 179A.10, 
  2.6   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  2.7      Subd. 2.  [STATE EMPLOYEES.] Unclassified employees, unless 
  2.8   otherwise excluded, are included within the units which include 
  2.9   the classifications to which they are assigned for purposes of 
  2.10  compensation.  Supervisory employees shall only be assigned to 
  2.11  units 13 and 17.  The following are the appropriate units of 
  2.12  executive branch state employees:  
  2.13     (1) law enforcement unit; 
  2.14     (2) craft, maintenance, and labor unit; 
  2.15     (3) service unit; 
  2.16     (4) health care nonprofessional unit; 
  2.17     (5) health care professional unit; 
  2.18     (6) clerical and office unit; 
  2.19     (7) technical unit; 
  2.20     (8) correctional guards unit; 
  2.21     (9) state university instructional unit; 
  2.22     (10) community college instructional unit; 
  2.23     (11) technical college instructional unit; 
  2.24     (12) state university administrative unit; 
  2.25     (13) professional engineering unit; 
  2.26     (14) health treatment unit; 
  2.27     (15) general professional unit; 
  2.28     (16) professional state residential instructional unit; and 
  2.29     (17) supervisory employees unit; and 
  2.30     (18) radio communications operators unit.  
  2.31     Each unit consists of the classifications or positions 
  2.32  assigned to it in the schedule of state employee job 
  2.33  classification and positions maintained by the commissioner.  
  2.34  The commissioner may only make changes in the schedule in 
  2.35  existence on the day prior to August 1, 1984, as required by law 
  2.36  or as provided in subdivision 4.