Several localities are headed toward contract negotiations with their employees after a 2020 state law gave them authority to adopt collective bargaining ordinances.
Some public employees in Virginia have begun union contract negotiations over wages, benefits and other working conditions for the first time in more than four decades, the result of aArrowRight
The movement was further weakened in 1977, when the state ruled that collective bargaining agreements that Arlington County had struck with its employees were not enforceable because the General Assembly had not authorized localities to enter into labor contracts with public employees. Under Virginia’sAdvertisement
Local officials have generally been supportive of collective bargaining, despite the potential fiscal impacts. In some cases, the negotiations may grow tense in what has been a sputtering local economy since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, which has left several jurisdictions short-staffed in some departments as employees either retire early or move elsewhere.
Fairfax County Executive Bryan J. Hill said the fire department is working to recruit more firefighters to fill those vacant positions, even as more of those slots become vacant because of early retirements.“If we are able to get our vacancy rate to zero, holdovers won’t be an issue,” Hill said, adding that the county doesn’t yet know what the fiscal impact of collective bargaining will be because official talks have not yet begun.
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