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Workers urge faster contract funding and collective-bargaining rights for CPCS; unions push to streamline ratification payments
Summary
Labor leaders, CPCS staff and higher-education representatives told the committee that delays in funding ratified contracts cause serious financial harm and urged passage of H.2820 to speed contract payments and S.1873 to extend collective-bargaining rights to CPCS employees.
A broad coalition of union leaders, public-college faculty and staff, and CPCS attorneys and staff urged the Joint Committee on Public Service to act on multiple bills addressing contract funding delays, collective-bargaining rights and retiree COLA reforms.
Witnesses said protracted funding delays have tangible harms: local contracts that were ratified sometimes took months or years to be funded, leaving employees…
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