S. 1394: Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

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S. 1394: Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-05-09 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

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Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act This bill addresses the rights of public safety officers or employees to form and join a labor organization and to participate in certain organized job actions. The bill requires the Federal Labor Relations Authority (NLRA) to determine whether a state substantially provides public safety officers or employees the right to form and join a labor organization; recognition by public safety employers of the employees' labor organization, agreement to bargain with the organization, and reduction of any agreements to writing in a contract or memorandum of understanding; the right to bargain over hours, wages, and terms and conditions of employment; and binding interest arbitration to resolve an impasse in collective bargaining negotiations. The bill makes the NLRA responsible for (1) determining the appropriateness of units for labor representation; (2) supervising elections; (3) conducting hearings and resolving complaints of unfair labor practices; and (4) protecting the right of employees to form, join, or assist any labor organization, or to refrain from doing so. An employer, public safety officer, or labor organization may not engage in a lockout, sickout, work slowdown, strike, or any other organized job action that will measurably disrupt the delivery of emergency services and is designed to compel an employer, public safety officer, or labor organization to agree to the terms of a proposed contract.

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Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] · 19 cosponsors

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Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Patty Murray (D-WA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jack Reed (D-RI), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Gary C. Peters (D-MI)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] reported raising $3.5 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

• Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
• Congress.gov
• Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s1394.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>

Record fed-us-cong116-s1394 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116