This bill also prohibits municipal employers from collectively bargaining with municipal general employees in matters that are not permitted under MERA.

OK so if the ONLY bargaining position that municipal employers (the governments) can discuss is BASE WAGES (you keep leaving out the word base), why would the bill specifically mention that they are prohibited from collectively bargaining in matters that are not permitted under the Municipal Employment Relations Act (MERA)?

I know this is dry, BUT:

SECTION 265. 111.83 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

111.83 (1) Except as provided in subs. sub. (5) and (5m), a representative
chosen for the purposes of collective bargaining by a majority of the employees voting in a collective bargaining unit shall be the exclusive representative of all of the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining. Any individual employee, or any minority group of employees in any collective bargaining unit, may present grievances to the employer in person, or through representatives of their own choosing, and the employer shall confer with said employee or group of employees in relation thereto if the majority representative has been afforded the opportunity to be present at the conference. Any adjustment resulting from such a conference may not be inconsistent with the conditions of employment established by the majority representative and the employer.

There is a lot more of this kind of stuff in the bill, but it would be a huge job to round it all up and present it here.

I just don’t have the time.

Basically this says that an adjustment to the conditions of employment CAN be initiated by employees, or a collective bargaining unit (representatives of their own choosing).

Of course it doesn’t say that it has to be accepted. BUT there is a way to bring issues OTHER THAN BASE WAGES to be part of the conditions of employment.