RCW 41.56.492
Application of uniformed personnel collective bargaining provisions to employees of public passenger transportation systems—Conditions.
In addition to the classes of employees listed in *RCW 41.56.030(7), the provisions of RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.452, 41.56.470, 41.56.480, and 41.56.490 shall also be applicable to the employees of a public passenger transportation system of a metropolitan municipal corporation, county transportation authority, public transportation benefit area, or city public passenger transportation system, subject to the following:
(1) Negotiations between the public employer and the bargaining representative may commence at any time agreed to by the parties. If no agreement has been reached ninety days after commencement of negotiations, either party may demand that the issues in disagreement be submitted to a mediator. The services of the mediator shall be provided by the commission without cost to the parties, but nothing in this section or RCW 41.56.440 shall be construed to prohibit the public employer and the bargaining representative from agreeing to substitute at their own expense some other mediator or mediation procedure; and
(2) If an agreement has not been reached following a reasonable period of negotiations and mediation, and the mediator finds that the parties remain at impasse, either party may demand that the issues in disagreement be submitted to an arbitration panel for a binding and final determination. In making its determination, the arbitration panel shall be mindful of the legislative purpose enumerated in RCW 41.56.430 and as additional standards or guidelines to aid it in reaching a decisions [decision], shall take into consideration the following factors:
(a) The constitutional and statutory authority of the employer;
(b) Stipulations of the parties;
(c) Compensation package comparisons, economic indices, fiscal constraints, and similar factors determined by the arbitration panel to be pertinent to the case; and
(d) Such other factors, not confined to the foregoing, which are normally or traditionally taken into consideration in the determination of wages, hours, and conditions of employment.
[ 1993 c 473 § 1.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 41.56.030 was alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k), changing subsection (7) to subsection (14). RCW 41.56.030 was subsequently amended by 2011 1st sp.s. c 21 § 11, changing subsection (14) to subsection (13). RCW 41.56.030 was subsequently amended by 2020 c 298 § 1, changing subsection (13) to subsection (14).
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.56 - Public Employees' Collective Bargaining.
41.56.010 - Declaration of purpose.
41.56.020 - Application of chapter.
41.56.022 - Application of chapter to University of Washington printing craft employees.
41.56.024 - Application of chapter to classified employees of technical colleges.
41.56.025 - Application of chapter to education providers under chapter 28A.193 RCW.
41.56.0251 - Application of chapter to charter schools.
41.56.026 - Application of chapter to individual providers under chapter 74.39A RCW.
41.56.027 - Application of chapter to passenger-only ferry employees.
41.56.040 - Right of employees to organize and designate representatives without interference.
41.56.060 - Determination of bargaining unit—Bargaining representative.
41.56.070 - Election to ascertain bargaining representative.
41.56.080 - Certification of bargaining representative—Scope of representation.
41.56.090 - Rules and regulations.
41.56.095 - Certification of bargaining representative—Cross-check.
41.56.110 - Employee authorization of membership dues and other payments—Revocation.
41.56.120 - Right to strike not granted.
41.56.122 - Collective bargaining agreements—Binding arbitration.
41.56.123 - Collective bargaining agreements—Effect of termination—Application of section.
41.56.125 - Arbitrators—Selection—Additional method.
41.56.130 - Rules and regulations of Washington state personnel resources board—Mandatory subjects.
41.56.140 - Unfair labor practices for public employer enumerated.
41.56.150 - Unfair labor practices for bargaining representative enumerated.
41.56.165 - Applicability of administrative procedure act to commission action.
41.56.430 - Uniformed personnel—Legislative declaration.
41.56.440 - Uniformed personnel—Negotiations—Declaration of an impasse—Appointment of mediator.
41.56.452 - Interest arbitration panel a state agency.
41.56.465 - Uniformed personnel—Interest arbitration panel—Determinations—Factors to be considered.
41.56.470 - Uniformed personnel—Arbitration panel—Rights of parties.
41.56.490 - Uniformed employees—Strikes prohibited—Violations—Contempt of court.
41.56.496 - Commercial nuclear plants—Application of chapter to certain employees.
41.56.500 - School district collective bargaining agreements.
41.56.513 - Application of chapter to certain postdoctoral and clinical university employees.
41.56.515 - Fish and wildlife officers—Application of chapter.
41.56.516 - Fish and wildlife officers—Application of certain uniformed personnel provisions.
41.56.900 - Short title—Effective date—1967 ex.s. c 108.
41.56.905 - Uniformed personnel—Provisions additional—Liberal construction.
41.56.906 - Construction of chapter—Certain agreements subject to RCW 28A.400.320.
41.56.913 - Conflict with federal requirements—2006 c 54.
41.56.914 - Short title—2006 c 54.
41.56.915 - Effective date—2006 c 54.
41.56.950 - Retroactive date in collective bargaining agreements allowable, when.