Tens of thousands of teachers and government workers will be without union contracts for the first time in decades on Wednesday.
That's the day a new state law goes into effect prohibiting virtually all collective bargaining for an estimated 175,000 state, local and school workers.
But major changes in working conditions aren't expected to happen for months, as public administrators write detailed policies on things like overtime, vacations, work schedules and discipline to replace negotiated contracts.
"We will continue to abide by all the labor contracts until there is something that takes their place," state Department of Administration deputy secretary Cynthia Archer said Friday. "That's not required by the bill, but there's no other way to do it."
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