{"id":1083,"date":"2026-05-15T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:39:38","slug":"labor-leaders-call-veto-of-collective-bargaining-bill-a-betrayal-by-virginia-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Labor leaders call veto of collective bargaining bill a \u2018betrayal\u2019 by Virginia governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union leaders say veto from Democrat Abigail Spanberger is an about-face from promises she made on campaign trail<\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s Democratic governor Abigail Spanberger vetoed a bill Thursday that would have restored collective bargaining rights for 50,000 public sector workers in the state. Union leaders say the veto is a \u201cbetrayal\u201d and \u201cslap in the face\u201d after the governor campaigned last year on promises to restore collective bargaining rights.<\/p>\n<p>Though majorities in both chambers of Virginia\u2019s general assembly <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.blob.core.windows.net\/files\/1214349.PDF\">passed<\/a> legislation that would restore bargaining rights to most public sector workers, Spanberger <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.blob.core.windows.net\/files\/1219772.PDF\">introduced<\/a> an amended version of the bill last month that was eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/bill-details\/20261\/HB1263\/text\/HB1263VG\">rejected<\/a> by the assembly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/collective-bargaining-bill-veto-virginia-governor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union leaders say veto from Democrat Abigail Spanberger is an about-face from promises she made on campaign trail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}