Title LG, Local Government Code

Sec. 146.005. CERTIFICATION ELECTION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a certification election ordered under Section 146.004(a)(3) to determine whether an employee association represents a majority of the covered employees shall be conducted according to procedures agre…

Sec. 146.006. ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE OPERATING UNDER THIS CHAPTER. (a) The governing body of a municipality that receives a petition for recognition under Section 146.004 may order an election to determine whether a public employer may meet and confer under this chapter. (b) An el…

Sec. 146.007. CHANGE OR MODIFICATION OF RECOGNITION. (a) The municipal employees may modify or change the recognition of the employee association granted under this chapter by filing with the governing body of the municipality a petition signed by a majority of all covered employ…

Sec. 146.008. STRIKES PROHIBITED. (a) A municipal employee may not engage in a strike or organized work stoppage against this state or the municipality. (b) A municipal employee who participates in a strike forfeits any civil service rights, reemployment rights, and other rights,…

Sec. 146.009. RECOGNITION OF EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION. (a) A public employer in a municipality that chooses to meet and confer under this chapter shall recognize an association that is recognized under Section 146.004 or 146.005 as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for the cove…

Sec. 146.010. SELECTION OF BARGAINING AGENT; BARGAINING UNIT. (a) The public employer's chief executive officer or the chief executive officer's designee shall select one or more persons to represent the public employer as its sole and exclusive bargaining agent to meet and confe…

Sec. 146.011. PROTECTED RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES. A meet and confer agreement ratified under this chapter may not interfere with the right of a member of a bargaining unit to pursue allegations of discrimination based on race, creed, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, or disa…

Sec. 146.012. OPEN RECORDS. (a) A proposed meet and confer agreement and a document prepared and used by the municipality, including a public employer, in connection with the proposed agreement are available to the public under Chapter 552, Government Code, only after the agreeme…

Sec. 146.013. OPEN DELIBERATIONS. (a) Deliberations relating to a meet and confer agreement or proposed agreement under this chapter between representatives of the public employer and representatives of the employee association recognized under this chapter as the sole and exclus…

Sec. 146.014. RATIFICATION AND ENFORCEABILITY OF AGREEMENT. (a) An agreement under this chapter is enforceable and binding on the public employer, the recognized employee association, and the employees covered by the meet and confer agreement only if: (1) the governing body of th…

Sec. 146.015. ACTION OR ELECTION TO REPEAL AUTHORIZATION TO OPERATE UNDER THIS CHAPTER. (a) The governing body of a municipality that granted recognition of an employee association under Section 146.004 without conducting an election under Section 146.006 may withdraw recognition…

Sec. 146.016. ELECTION TO REPEAL AGREEMENT. (a) Not later than the 45th day after the date a meet and confer agreement is ratified by the governing body of the municipality and the recognized employee association, a petition calling for the repeal of the agreement signed by at le…

Sec. 146.017. AGREEMENT SUPERSEDES CONFLICTING PROVISIONS. A written meet and confer agreement ratified under this chapter preempts, during the term of the agreement and to the extent of any conflict, all contrary state statutes, local ordinances, executive orders, civil service …