New York S 6214: Requires labor peace agreements in contracts for certain retail or distribution projects involving public agencies

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S06214 Summary:

BILL NOS06214 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10412

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §222-b, Lab L; add §2879-d, Pub Auth L; add §109-e, Gen Muni L

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Requires labor peace agreements as a precondition for contracts for certain retail or distribution projects in which a public agency has a substantial proprietary interest.

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BILL NOS06214 

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03/06/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6214

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 6, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, the public authorities law and the gener-
 al municipal law, in relation to requiring labor peace agreements in
 contracts for certain retail or distribution projects involving public
 agencies

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 222-b to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 222-b. Labor peace agreements; covered retail and distribution
 4 projects. 1. As used in this section:
 5 (a) "Contractor" means any person, firm, partnership, corporation,
 6 association, company, organization or other similar entity, or any
 7 combination thereof, including any subcontractor thereof, that employs
 8 employees to perform work pursuant to an agreement with a public agency
 9 to undertake a covered retail or distribution project as defined in
 10 paragraph (b) of this subdivision, or to serve as the owner or operator
 11 of any facility, including but not limited to a retail establishment or
 12 distribution center that is part of a covered project, or to provide
 13 services integral to the operations of the covered project or the facil-
 14 ities.
 15 (b) "Covered retail or distribution project" or "covered project"
 16 means any project in which a public agency enters into an agreement for
 17 development after the effective date of this section, where: (i) one or
 18 more retail establishments or distribution centers are part of the
 19 project; (ii) the state agency has a substantial proprietary interest in
 20 the project, or in the retail or distribution center; and (iii) the
 21 project includes at least one retail establishment which will have at
 22 least ten employees, or at least one distribution center which will have
 23 more than twenty employees.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07048-01-5

 S. 6214 2

 1 (c) "Distribution center" means a large-scale facility involving proc-
 2 essing, repackaging and/or movement of finished or semi-finished goods
 3 to be redistributed to retailers, wholesalers, or directly to customers,
 4 including but not limited to a warehouse, storage facility, sortation
 5 facility, fulfillment center, or any other similar facility.
 6 (d) "Labor peace agreement" means an agreement between a contractor
 7 and one or more bona fide labor organizations representing workers in
 8 this state that, at a minimum, requires that the labor organization and
 9 its members refrain from engaging in labor activity that will disrupt
 10 the contractor's operations, including strikes, boycotts, work stop-
 11 pages, corporate campaigns, picketing or other economic action against
 12 the covered retail or distribution project for a period of not less than
 13 five years following the commencement of operations under the contract
 14 or agreement for the covered project.
 15 (e) "Proprietary interest" means an economic and non-regulatory inter-
 16 est of a public agency in the economic or financial success of a covered
 17 retail or distribution project that could be adversely affected by
 18 labor-management conflict, including, but not limited to, the interest
 19 of the public agency as a financier, investor, lessee, lessor, operator,
 20 or owner of the project, facility, or property on which th