Vermont § 1721 - Purpose This chapter shall be known as the Vermont Municipal Employee Relations Act
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§ 1721. Purpose This chapter shall be known as the Vermont Municipal Employee Relations Act
- . It is
the purpose and policy of this chapter to prescribe the legitimate rights of both
municipal employees and municipal employers in their relations with each other; to
provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either
with the legitimate rights of the other; to protect the rights of individual employees
to self-organization; to allow individuals to form, join, or assist employee organizations
and to bargain collectively; to define and proscribe practices on the part of employee
organizations and municipal employers which are harmful to the general welfare; and
to protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes. (Added 1973, No. 111, § 1.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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