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Senator Dickey says technical fix to public-sector recertification law would protect workers’ votes
Summary
Senator Dickey urged final passage of Senate File 472, calling it a "pro-worker" technical fix after officials said many required recertification elections were not held between 2020 and 2023; the transcript records a motion to read the bill for the final time but does not show a final passage vote in the provided excerpt.
Senator Dickey, the senator from Jefferson, urged final consideration of Senate File 472, describing it as a technical change intended to protect public employees’ votes. "This is a pro worker bill. This is not a union busting bill. Rather, it's a technical fix to the existing law," Dickey said, adding that from 2020 to 2023 "nearly half of the elections that should have taken place didn't."
The bill, as discussed on the floor, was presented as a response to failures in…
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