111.51 Definitions. When used in this subchapter:
(1) “Arbitrators" refers to the arbitrators provided for in this subchapter.
(2) “Collective bargaining" means collective bargaining of or similar to the kind provided for by subch. I.
(3) “Commission" means the employment relations commission.
(4) “Essential service" means furnishing water, light, heat, gas, electric power, public passenger transportation or communication, or any one or more of them, to the public in this state.
(5)
(a) “Public utility employer" means any employer, other than the state or any political subdivision thereof, engaged in the business of furnishing water, light, heat, gas, electric power, public passenger transportation or communication, or any one or more of them, to the public in this state; and shall be considered to include a rural electrification cooperative association engaged in the business of furnishing any one or more of such services or utilities to its members in this state.
(b) Nothing in this subsection shall be interpreted or construed to mean that rural electrification cooperative associations are brought under or made subject to ch. 196 or other laws creating, governing or controlling public utilities, it being the intent of the legislature to specifically exclude rural electrification cooperative associations from the provisions of such laws.
(c) This subchapter does not apply to railroads nor railroad employees.
History: 1983 a. 189; 1995 a. 225.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 111 - Employment relations.
111.05 - Representatives and elections.
111.06 - What are unfair labor practices.
111.07 - Prevention of unfair labor practices.
111.08 - Financial reports to employees.
111.09 - Rules, orders, transcripts, training programs and fees.
111.115 - Notice of certain proposed strikes.
111.12 - Duties of the attorney general and district attorneys.
111.15 - Construction of subchapter I.
111.17 - Conflict of provisions; effect.
111.18 - Limit on payment to health care institutions.
111.19 - Title of subchapter I.
111.31 - Declaration of policy.
111.3205 - Franchisors excluded.
111.321 - Prohibited bases of discrimination.
111.322 - Discriminatory actions prohibited.
111.325 - Unlawful to discriminate.
111.33 - Age; exceptions and special cases.
111.335 - Arrest or conviction record; exceptions and special cases.
111.337 - Creed; exceptions and special cases.
111.34 - Disability; exceptions and special cases.
111.345 - Marital status; exceptions and special cases.
111.35 - Use or nonuse of lawful products; exceptions and special cases.
111.355 - Military service; exceptions and special cases.
111.36 - Sex, sexual orientation; exceptions and special cases.
111.365 - Communication of opinions; exceptions and special cases.
111.37 - Use of honesty testing devices in employment situations.
111.371 - Local ordinance; collective bargaining agreements.
111.372 - Use of genetic testing in employment situations.
111.375 - Department to administer.
111.38 - Investigation and study of discrimination.
111.39 - Powers and duties of department.
111.50 - Declaration of policy.
111.52 - Settlement of labor disputes through collective bargaining and arbitration.
111.53 - Appointment of conciliators and arbitrators.
111.55 - Conciliator unable to effect settlement; appointment of arbitrators.
111.56 - Existing state of affairs to be maintained.
111.57 - Arbitrator to hold hearings.
111.58 - Standards for arbitration.
111.59 - Filing order with clerk of circuit court; period effective; retroactivity.
111.60 - Judicial review of order of arbitrator.
111.61 - Commission to establish rules.
111.62 - Strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts, unlawful; penalty.
111.70 - Municipal employment.
111.77 - Settlement of disputes.
111.825 - Collective bargaining units.
111.83 - Representatives and elections.
111.84 - Unfair labor practices.
111.845 - Wage deduction prohibition.
111.85 - Fair-share and maintenance of membership agreements.
111.86 - Grievance arbitration.
111.91 - Subjects of bargaining.
111.93 - Effect of labor organization; status of existing benefits and rights.
111.935 - Representatives and elections for research assistants.