SB 1248 - This act shall be known as the "Missouri Emergency Response Personnel Strike Prevention Act". Certain emergency response personnel are exempted from Section 105.520, RSMo, which requires public bodies to confer with labor organizations when proposals are submitted.

Emergency response personnel may bargain collectively about wages, hours, and other conditions of employment with the appropriate legislative body. The act establishes the method of and rules pertaining to such bargaining.

The act establishes that it is unlawful for any bargaining unit, subject to the provisions of Sections 105.1325 to 105.1352, to strike. If a strike occurs, all employees who participate in the strike shall be automatically terminated and, at the conclusion of the strike, may be rehired at the discretion of the employer. However, any individual who is rehired shall lose all seniority, tenure and pay grade steps derived or acquired by virtue of the employee's past employment. Any party who violates the provisions of Sections 105.1325 to 105.1352 may seek injunctive relief.

Any labor organization which is certified as the exclusive representative of the employees of an appropriate unit and which thereafter is found to have ordered, called for, supported or participated in a strike by the employees in a bargaining unit shall, upon such action, forfeit its status as the exclusive representative of such employees for a period of three years.

The provisions of Sections 105.1325 to 105.1352 may be adopted by any city, town or certain other political subdivision to which Sections 105.1325 to 105.1352 apply.
RICHARD MOORE