One of the reasons the Colorado public defenders employees want a union is to reduce case loads. “I don’t want anybody else to have that sort of pressure where it’s a choice between your personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of the system.”
The moment that led Matt Haugen to conclude the state public defender’s office needs a labor union came when he was asked, for the third time, to postpone a surgery because he might be needed during a trial.Now, he’s part of a core group within the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender leading the charge to form a union.
Most lawyers, paralegals, investigators, social workers and administrative staff in the state’s 21 regional offices will be included, and 750 to 800 employees would be eligible to join, said Kiyomi Bolick, a co-chair of the organizing effort and a lead deputy public defender in Steamboat Springs. Office managers and supervising attorneys will not be included.
The two biggest issues for Colorado’s public defender employees are increasing pay for the staff that supports the lawyers and lightening the caseloads of those attorneys, Bolick said. The American Bar Association’s recommended standard is 100 cases per attorney in a year. But most public defenders carry 100 or more cases at any given time, Bolick said.
“In our office, there’s just not reprieve because there is an endless number of appellate briefs to write,” Hardy said. “Folks don’t take their PTO. They don’t go on vacation. Because every hour off is an hour not spent on writing briefs.”Hardy, Bolick and Haugen all cited low pay for support staff as an ongoing problem. If someone talented comes to work in the office, it’s hard to retain them because pay is so much better elsewhere, they said.
“I’ve seen countless numbers come and go,” said Cash, who has worked in the public defender’s office for eight years. “It is a really difficult job to do sometimes and to be the most effective.”
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