There are 21 bargaining units for the State's rank-and-file employees. The following lists gives a brief description of the classes of employees in each unit.
Bargaining Unit 1, Administrative, Financial, and Staff Services: There are 43,145 employees performing administrative, fiscal, and analytical functions such as accounting, planning, personnel, data processing, research, and analysis.
Bargaining Unit 2, Attorney and Administrative Law Judges: There are 3,583 employees practicing law for the State or exercising quasi-judicial job duties within administrative hearings.
Bargaining Unit 3, Professional Educators and Librarians: There are 2,207 employees providing educational services in departments with institutional work settings.
Bargaining Unit 4, Office and Allied: There are 29,603 employees providing vital support to the primary professional, technical, or administrative objectives of each State department or agency.
Bargaining Unit 5, Highway Patrol: There are 5,931 employees providing safe and lawful vehicular movement over highways.
Bargaining Unit 6, Corrections: There are 29,629 employees providing custody, supervision, and treatment of wards and inmates remanded to State custody.
Bargaining Unit 7, Protective Services and Public Safety: There are 6,734 employees protecting State lands and buildings, furnishing emergency services, issuing licenses or permits, arresting individuals violating penal or administrative laws, and protecting the public from fraudulent practices and schemes.
Bargaining Unit 8, Firefighter: There are 3,555 employees fighting structural and forest fires.
Bargaining Unit 9, Professional Engineer: There are 9,997 employees providing engineering, design, research, and related analytical information regarding structures such as highways, bridges, dams, and water treatment plants.
Bargaining Unit 10, Professional Scientific: There are 2,591 employees engaged in scientific research, testing, design, and analysis in life, earth, and environmental sciences.
Bargaining Unit 11, Engineering and Scientific Technicians: There are 3,915 employees utilizing scientific instruments and technology to gather and record data.
Bargaining Unit 12, Craft and Maintenance: There are 12,023 employees operating and maintaining State equipment, facilities, buildings, grounds, and roads.
Bargaining Unit 13, Stationary Engineer: There are 867 employees maintaining and operating power generation facilities that heat, ventilate, and air condition large office buildings and other State facilities.
Bargaining Unit 14, Printing Trades: There are 611 employees preparing, composing, and printing material for State agencies.
Bargaining Unit 15, Allied Services: There are 4,714 employees providing custodial, food, laundry, and other basic services to maintain a proper physical environment for State facilities.
Bargaining Unit 16, Physician, Dentist and Podiatrist: There are 1,578 employees comprised of medical staff responsible for diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of patients within State institutions.
Bargaining Unit 17, Registered Nurses: There are 3,890 employees involved in educational, preventive and treatment programs associated with State health care.
Bargaining Unit 18, Psychiatric Technicians: There are 7,036 employees providing psychiatric care for mentally ill and developmentally disabled patients in State-operated facilities.
Bargaining Unit 19, Health and Social Services/Professional: There are 4,177 employees providing evaluations and assessment of client counseling and consultation or client follow-up service of a health, social, or employment nature.
Bargaining Unit 20, Medical and Social Services Support: There are 2,736 employees providing direct and indirect health care and social service support to inmates and other recipients of State social service programs.
Bargaining Unit 21, Education, Consultants, and Librarians: There are 725 employees in departments with non-institutional work settings providing education, consulting, and library services.