093_HB2418

 
                                     LRB093 09546 MKM 09783 b

 1        AN ACT concerning labor relations.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Public Labor  Relations  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 8 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 315/8) (from Ch. 48, par. 1608)
 7        Sec.  8.  Grievance Procedure.  The collective bargaining
 8    agreement negotiated between the employer and  the  exclusive
 9    representative shall contain a grievance resolution procedure
10    which shall apply to all employees in the bargaining unit and
11    shall  provide  for final and binding arbitration of disputes
12    concerning  the  administration  or  interpretation  of   the
13    agreement  unless  mutually  agreed otherwise.  Any agreement
14    containing a final and binding  arbitration  provision  shall
15    also contain a provision prohibiting strikes for the duration
16    of  the  agreement.  The grievance and arbitration provisions
17    of any collective bargaining agreement shall  be  subject  to
18    the  Illinois  "Uniform  Arbitration Act".  The costs of such
19    arbitration shall be borne equally by the  employer  and  the
20    employee  organization.   The  submission of all disciplinary
21    matters to the  grievance  and  arbitration  procedure  is  a
22    mandatory subject of bargaining notwithstanding the existence
23    of any other applicable statute.
24    (Source: P.A. 83-1012.)