(70 ILCS 3615/2.18) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 702.18)
Sec. 2.18.
Labor Contracts.
(a) The Authority shall deal with and enter into written contracts with
employees of the Authority, through accredited representatives of such
employees authorized to act for such employees concerning wages, salaries,
hours, working conditions, and pension or retirement provisions. Nothing in
this Act shall be construed, however, to permit hours of labor in excess of
those prohibited by law or to permit working conditions prohibited by law.
(b) Whenever the Authority acquires the public transportation facilities
of a transportation agency, either in proceeding by eminent domain or
otherwise, and operates such facilities, all employees actively engaged in
the operation thereof shall be transferred to and appointed as employees of
the Authority, subject to all the rights and benefits of Sections 2.15
through 2.19, and the Authority shall assume and observe all applicable
labor contracts and pension obligations. These employees shall be given
seniority credit and sick leave, vacation, insurance, and pension credits
in accordance with the records or labor agreements from the acquired
transportation system. Members and beneficiaries of any pension or
retirement system or other benefits established by the acquired
transportation system shall continue to have rights, privileges, benefits,
obligations and status with respect to such established system. The
Authority shall assume the obligations of any transportation system
acquired by it with regard to wages, salaries, hours, working conditions,
sick leave, health and welfare and pension or retirement provisions for
these employees. The Authority and the employees, through their
representatives for collective bargaining purposes, shall take whatever
action may be necessary to have pension trust funds presently under the
joint control of such Transportation Agency and the participating employees
through their representatives transferred to the trust funds to be
established, maintained, and administered jointly by the Authority and the
participating employees through their representatives.
(c) Whenever the Authority shall take any of the actions specified in
Section 2.16 (c), it shall do so only after meeting the requirements of
Section 2.16, and in addition, whenever the Authority shall acquire and
operate the public transportation facilities of a transportation agency
engaged in the transportation of persons by railroad, it shall do so only
in such manner as to insure the continued applicability to the railroad
employees affected thereby of the provisions of all federal statutes then
applicable to them and a continuation of their existing collective
bargaining agreements until the provisions of said agreements can be
re-negotiated by representatives of the Authority and the representatives
of said employees duly designated as such pursuant to the terms and
provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.);
provided, however, that nothing in this subsection shall prevent the
abandonment of such facilities, or the discontinuance of such operations
pursuant to applicable law, or the substitution of other operations or
facilities for such operations or facilities, whether by merger,
consolidation, coordination or otherwise. In the event new or supplemental
operations or facilities are substituted therefor, the provisions of
Section 2.19 shall be applicable, and all questions concerning the
selection of forces to perform the work of such new or supplemental
facilities or operations, and whether the Authority shall be required to
insure the continued applicability of the federal statutes applicable to
such employees shall be negotiated and, if necessary, arbitrated, in
accordance with the procedures set forth in subsection 2.19 (a).
(Source: P.A. 78-3rd S.S.-5.)
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