N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 3558: Recognition and continuation of existing bargaining agents and units

§ 3558. Recognition and continuation of existing bargaining agents and

units. 1. The employees of the corporation shall, for all purposes of

article fourteen of the civil service law, be deemed to be employees of

the state of New York and shall be employed within the current state of

New York bargaining unit designations of either the professional,

scientific and technical unit, the administration services unit,

operational services unit, institutional services unit or security

services unit. The governor's office of employee relations shall, for

all purposes of article fourteen of the civil service law, act as agent

for the corporation, and shall, with respect to the corporation, have

all the powers and duties provided under sections six hundred fifty

through six hundred fifty-four of the executive law. Those persons who

become employees of the corporation pursuant to subdivision one of this

section or who enter into the service of the corporation following the

effective date of the transfer shall retain their current bargaining

unit designations in either the professional, scientific and technical

services unit, the administrative services unit, the institutional

services unit, the operational services unit, the security services unit

or the security supervisors unit of state employees. The corporation and

the state shall recognize the existing certified or recognized employee

organizations for state employees as the exclusive collective bargaining

representatives for such employees.

Titles within collective bargaining units in existence prior to the

transfer of operations to the corporation shall remain in those units

and will not be altered by the public employment relations board without

the consent of the corporation, the state and the recognized or

certified representatives of the negotiating units involved. New titles

created after the date of the transfer of operations to the corporation

will be placed in the appropriate unit of state employees consistent

with the provisions of article fourteen of the civil service law.

2. The corporation shall be bound by all collective bargaining

agreements between the state of New York and such collective bargaining

representatives, in effect as of the date of transfer of operations to

the corporation and any successor agreements between such parties.

3. Nothing contained in this provision shall be construed to affect:

(a) the rights of employees pursuant to a collective bargaining

agreement;

(b) the bargaining relationship between the executive branch of the

state of New York and an employee organization;

(c) existing law with respect to an application to the public

employment relations board seeking the designation of persons as

managerial or confidential.