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Public defenders and SEIU urge committee to allow CPCS employees to seek collective bargaining rights
Summary
Legal staff and union representatives from the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) testified in favor of S.1873, which would designate CPCS as an employer for Chapter 150E and give CPCS employees the option to pursue collective bargaining.
SEIU, CPCS attorneys and staff told the Joint Committee on Public Service that employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services should have the same right to decide whether to collectively bargain as other state employees. Maureen Madaris of SEIU Local 888 and several CPCS attorneys testified in favor of S.1873.
Madaris said the bill “simply gives CPCS employees the same…
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