20.19 - IMPASSE PROCEDURES -- AGREEMENT OF PARTIES. - Iowa Statutes

20.19 IMPASSE PROCEDURES -- AGREEMENT OF PARTIES. As the first step in the performance of their duty to bargain, the public employer and the employee organization shall endeavor to agree upon impasse procedures. Such agreement shall provide for implementation of these impasse procedures not later than one hundred twenty days prior to the certified budget submission date of the public employer. However, if public employees represented by the employee organization are teachers licensed under chapter 272, and the public employer is a school district or area education agency, the agreement shall provide for implementation of impasse procedures not later than one hundred twenty days prior to May 31 of the year when the collective bargaining agreement is to become effective. If the public employer is a community college, the agreement shall provide for implementation of impasse procedures not later than one hundred twenty days prior to May 31 of the year when the collective bargaining agreement is to become effective. If the parties fail to agree upon impasse procedures under the provisions of this section, the impasse procedures provided in sections 20.20 to 20.22 shall apply.          Section History: Early Form [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 20.19]          Section History: Recent Form 91 Acts, ch 174, §4; 92 Acts, ch 1011, § 2; 92 Acts, ch 1227, § 12 Referred to in § 20.17, 20.20