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.
(Cite as: 33 V.S.A. § 3601)
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§ 3601. Purpose
(a) The General Assembly recognizes the right of all early care and education providers
to bargain collectively with the State over matters within the State’s control and
identified as subjects of bargaining pursuant to subsection 3603(b) of this chapter.
(b) The General Assembly intends to create an opportunity for early care and education
providers to choose to form a union and bargain with the State over matters within
the State’s control and identified as subjects of bargaining pursuant to subsection
3603(b) of this chapter.
(c) Specific terms and conditions of employment, which are the subject of traditional
collective bargaining between employers and employees, are outside the limited scope
of this chapter.
(d) The matters subject to this chapter are those within the control of the State of Vermont
and relevant to all early care and education providers.
(e) Early care and education providers do not forfeit their rights under the National
Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 151-169, or the Vermont State Labor Relations Act, 21 V.S.A. §§ 1501-1624, by becoming members of an organization that represents them in their dealings with
the State. The terms and conditions of employment with individual early care and education
providers, which are the subjects of traditional collective bargaining between employers
and employees and which are governed by federal law, fall outside the limited scope
of bargaining defined in this chapter. (Added 2013, No. 187 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. June 5, 2014.)