***CALL TO ACTION***
Please contact your Senators and Delegates and request that they oppose House Bill 582 and Senate Bill 1022 in their present form.
These bills will not work for constitutional officers for a variety of reasons:
- The local government can’t bargain for the terms and conditions of employment in CO offices because they don’t control them
- The officers themselves can’t bargain for compensation – the state sets CO comp through the Comp Board and the Appropriations Act
- The vast majority of these offices are small – many contain only two or three deputies – and that is not a sensible size for a bargaining unit
- Because each officer is independent, you’d need a bargaining unit for every office – roughly 625 of them, if you wanted to cover every office in the state
Please contact your legislator now and request that they oppose HB 582 and SB 1022 in their present form. An amendment has been prepared for consideration in the Senate.
KEY CONTACTS
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee: Saslaw Chair), Norment, Newman, Obenshain, Lucas, Spruill, Edwards, Deeds, Barker, Marsden, Ebbin, Lewis, Surovell, Mason, Bell
Senate Commerce and Labor Committee – Email entire committee
Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee: Howell (Chair), Saslaw, Norment, Hanger, Lucas, Newman, Ruff, Vogel, Barker, Edwards, Deeds, Locke, Petersen, Marsden, Ebbin, McClellan
Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee – Email entire committee