Imposing California-Style Public Sector Collective Bargaining

Description

This bill repeals Virginia's long-standing ban on public employee collective bargaining, creates a powerful Public Employee Relations Board, and mandates good-faith negotiations over wages and working conditions while stripping away explicit protection for secret-ballot elections. It hands unions new leverage over taxpayers and local governments, threatening higher costs, more strikes, and entrenched union power inside government itself. CPAC opposes public sector unionization that drives up taxes and weakens accountability and opposed this bill. The House passed this bill on 2025-02-22 by a vote of 51-45. The Governor vetoed this bill.