The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
001
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GENERALLY
(Cite as: 3 V.S.A. § 903)
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§ 903. Employees’ rights and duties; prohibited acts
(a) Employees shall have the right to self-organization; to form, join, or assist employee
organizations; to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choice;
and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or
other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any
or all such activities, except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section,
and to appeal grievances as provided in this chapter.
(b) A State employee may not strike or recognize a picket line of an employee or labor
organization while in the performance of his or her official duties.
(c) An employee who exercises the right not to join the employee organization representing
the employee’s collective bargaining unit shall pay the collective bargaining service
fee to the representative of the bargaining unit in the same manner as employees who
pay membership fees to the representative. The employee organization shall indemnify
and hold the employer harmless from any and all claims stemming from the implementation
or administration of the collective bargaining service fee. Nothing in this section
shall require an employer to discharge an employee who does not pay the collective
bargaining service fee.
(d) All employers, their officers, agents, and employees or representatives shall exert
every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning matters allowable
under section 904 of this title and to settle all disputes, whether arising out of the application of those agreements
or growing out of any dispute between the employer and the employees thereof.
(e) Employees who are members of the employee organization shall have the right to automatic
membership dues deductions. Upon receipt of a signed authorization to commence automatic
membership dues deductions from an employee, the employer shall, as soon as practicable
and in any event, not later than 30 calendar days after receiving the authorization,
commence withholding from the employee’s wages the amount of membership dues certified
by the employee organization. The employer shall transmit the amount withheld to the
employee organization on the same day as the employee is paid. Nothing in this subsection
shall be construed to require a member of an employee organization to participate
in automatic dues deduction. (Added 1969, No. 113, § 1; amended 1971, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; 1993, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 28; 2013, No. 37, § 2; 2019, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)