Nevada senators work to undo 2015 bargaining law
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Senate committee heard a bill Monday to undo a collective bargaining law that employee groups complained unfairly harms public workers.
Senate Bill 356, sponsored by Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, D-North Las Vegas, and other Democratic legislators, seeks to repeal provisions of a Republican-backed measure signed into law last session.
“In a nutshell, this bill turns back the clock on collective bargaining to the way it was in 2013 before the enactment of Senate Bill 241,” Atkinson told members of the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
A key provision of SB356 reinstates an “evergreen” clause that keeps expired collective bargaining agreements in place while a new contract is negotiated.
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