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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5186
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 1408
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
REP. FISHBEIN, 90th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' SELECTION OF AN
EXCLUSIVE BARGAINING UNIT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That chapter 68 of the general statutes be amended to: (1) Allow 1
public employees to vote, at least every four years, to (A) redesignate 2
their current employee organization as their exclusive bargaining agent, 3
(B) select a different employee organization to represent them, (C) 4
choose to have no employee organization represent them, and (D) 5
organize a new employee organization; (2) require that, if no such 6
election is conducted in such a four-year period or in the manner 7
required, the employee organization shall be undesignated by the State 8
Board of Labor Relations; (3) require that an employee organization 9
receive votes from a majority of all employees who will be represented, 10
regardless of membership, in order to be designated as an exclusive 11
representative; (4) require that voting be by secret ballot and that such 12
voting may be conducted by phone, Internet or other means; (5) require 13
that the cost of such election be the responsibility of the employee 14
organization; and (6) require that, in the event an employee organization 15 Proposed Bill No. 5186
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is no longer designated as the exclusive representative of a collective 16
bargaining unit, a similar or affiliated employee organization shall not 17
reorganize the bargaining unit within one year of the election. 18
Statement of Purpose:
To protect public employees' right to elect a union of their choice to
represent their interests.