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VSEA supports S.125 changes on union decertification and judiciary supervisory votes; court administrators oppose removing supervisory exemption
Summary
Steve Howard, executive director of the Vermont State Employees Association, urged the House General and Housing Committee on April 1 to pass S.125 as adopted by the Senate, highlighting two priorities: a mechanism for judiciary supervisors to seek a supervisory bargaining-unit election and raising the signature threshold to trigger decertification elections from 30% to 50% plus one.
Steve Howard, executive director of the Vermont State Employees Association, told the House General and Housing Committee on April 1 that the VSEA supports S.125 as passed by the Senate and urged the House to accept the Senate version without changes.
Howard said two provisions in the Senate bill are particularly important to his members: allowing supervisors in the judiciary the option to petition for a supervisory bargaining unit election, and increasing the signature threshold required to trigger a decertification election from 30% of the bargaining unit to “50% plus 1.” He said the change to the trigger standard would align Vermont with states such as Hawaii, Massachusetts and Ohio that have adopted a higher threshold.
The change Howard proposed on decertification would affect only the signature threshold to start a decertification election; the underlying election rule governing who becomes the exclusive bargaining agent would…
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