Massachusetts Question 2 — Collective bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services employees
Ballot measure · November 3, 2026
- What it does
- Do you approve of a law summarized below, on which no vote was taken by the Senate or the House of Representatives before May 6, 2026? This proposed law would specify that employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (“CPCS”) are permitted to engage in collective bargaining with their employer. It would also require CPCS, after executing a collective bargaining agreement, to request the appropriation necessary to fund such agreement from the Governor.
- A YES vote means
- A YES VOTE would specify that Committee for Public Counsel Services employees may form a union to collectively bargain with their employer.
- A NO vote means
- A NO VOTE would make no change to the law governing labor relations for Committee for Public Counsel Service employees.
- Needed to pass
- A simple majority
- Put on the ballot by
- citizen initiative
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