Members of public sector unions in New York City can now change or even move to decertify the union representing them after going three years without a contract, according to a settlement reached between city and state labor boards this month. Previously, city workers could only do so within a brief monthlong period prior to the expiration of their contract.
In 2023, the state Public Employment Review Board took the city’s Office of Collective Bargaining to court hoping to change OCB’s 1960s-era “contract bar rule,” which dictates when union members can decertify their unions. Under OCB’s rules, union members could only do so within a 30-day period before a union contract’s expiration.
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