Ask our House of Delegates members to vote YES on HB1263.

Update: This bill has passed the House Labor & Commerce Committee and is now in the Appropriations Committee. It may be heard there as early as Mon, Feb 9.

Did you know that Virginia public employees don’t have Collective Bargaining rights?

The General Assembly took it away in 1946, in Jim Crow legislation passed after Black nurses attempted to organize at the UVA hospital. Restoring it will facilitate public employee recruitment and retention, and will help ensure that state employees and the employees of all localities make a living wage and have a voice in their workplaces.

Virginia labor unions support this bill. It passed the General Assembly last year; then Gov. Youngkin vetoed it. Ask our House of Delegates members to vote YES on HB1263, which also establishes a Virginia Home Care Authority as the public employer of individual home care providers.

Read a description of HB1263.