Urge your Legislators to Support The Right to Organize
Call your State Legislators today and ask them to support the following legislation
The legislative staff at the Massachusetts State House reached out to IBEW 2222 to discuss the possibility of forming a union. Presently, legislative staff are not included in the list of public employees permitted to unionize under the Massachusetts Labor Relations Act, though employees in the executive and judicial branches are. This is unacceptable!
There is pending legislation, An Act to Collective Bargaining Rights for Legislative Employees, which simply provides the legislative staff the same right as every other worker in the Commonwealth, the right to decide for themselves whether or not they would like to organize.
Legislative Staffer, Emily Kibbe, speaks at the Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day Breakfast.
Please call your State Representative & State Senator and urge them to support:
House Bill H.3069 & Senate Bill S.2014 –An Act Relative to Collective Bargaining Rights for Legislative Employees
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(click on their name for contact information)
Special thanks to our bill sponsors, Senator John Keenan @SenJohnFKeenan and Representative Patrick Kearney @RepKearney, as well as our cosponsors listed below. If your legislators are already supporting our bills, please be sure to thank them for standing up for the rights of workers to organize.
| Name | District / Address |
| Patrick Joseph Kearney | 4th Plymouth - Lead Sponsor |
| Kevin J. Holland, IBEW Local 2222 AFL-CIO | 159 Burgin Parkway, 3rd Floor, Quincy, MA 02169 |
| Rebecca L. Rausch | Norfolk, Worcester and Middlesex |
| Samantha Montaño | 15th Suffolk |
| David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf | 17th Worcester |
| Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida | 7th Plymouth |
| James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester |
| Erika Uyterhoeven | 27th Middlesex |
| Rodney M. Elliott | 16th Middlesex |
| Christopher Richard Flanagan | 1st Barnstable |
| David F. DeCoste | 5th Plymouth |
| James K. Hawkins | 2nd Bristol |
| Marc R. Pacheco | Third Bristol and Plymouth |
| James C. Arena-DeRosa | 8th Middlesex |
| Margaret R. Scarsdale | 1st Middlesex |
| Russell E. Holmes | 6th Suffolk |
| Mike Connolly | 26th Middlesex |
| Peter Capano | 11th Essex |
| Carmine Gentile | 13th Middlesex |
| Ryan Hamilton | 15th Essex |
| Lindsay Sabadosa | 1st Hampshire |
| Carol Doherty | 3rd Bristol |
| Steven Owens | 29th Middlesex |
| Danillo Sena | 37th Middlesex |
| Name | District/Address |
| John F. Keenan | Norfolk and Plymouth - Lead Sponsor |
| Michael D. Brady | Second Plymouth and Norfolk |
| Anne M. Gobi | Worcester and Hampshire |
| Walter F. Timilty | Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol |
| Michael O. Moore | Second Worcester |
| Rebecca L. Rausch | Norfolk, Worcester and Middlesex |
| James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester |
| Paul R. Feeney | Bristol and Norfolk |
| Paul W. Mark | Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin and Hampshire |
| Patrick M. O'Connor | First Plymouth and Norfolk |
| Marc R. Pacheco | Third Bristol and Plymouth |
| Patricia D. Jehlen | Second Middlesex |
| Estela Reyes | 4th Essex |