St Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri government workers win right to bargain
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that public employees have a constitutional right to engage in collective bargaining with their government employers, overturning a precedent set 60 years ago.
The court voted 5-2 to throw out a 1947 state Supreme Court decision that granted collective bargaining only to workers in the private sector. And it voted unanimously to overturn a 1982 decision that allowed public employers, such as school districts and police departments, to discard written agreements with employees.
Until Tuesday’s ruling, governments were required only to “meet and confer” with certain employee groups, but agreements made in those sessions were not binding.
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