We spend a lot of our time fighting for the rights of clients and standing up for them in court. And we need to do the same thing for ourselves.
— Jennifer Coliflores, a public defender in Worcester, Massachusetts, commenting on the latest swipe at the Committee for Public Counsel Services by state lawmakers. For the past six years, CPCS attorneys have been asking that their agency be added to the state’s collective bargaining statute so that they can form union, and their requests have continually been ignored.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
Public Defenders Need A Union, And This State Is Ignoring Them curated from Above the Law
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