797, 802 (1987) (discussing right to union representation at predisciplinaiy meeting and recognizing that where civil service laws do not offer specific procedural due process protections in that context, civil service agencies and courts adopt rationale that guarantees public employees same rights as private employees). 17 . See also Baker v. Civil Serv. Comm'n, 161 W.Va. 666, 672, 245 S.E.2d 908, 912 (1978) (observing that "[n]umerous cases in other jurisdictions hold that a legislative' body has the power to make changes in its public employment, including the civil service system, which changes result in either abolishing positions or diminishing the economic rights of civil service employees.”). 18 . See also Sanchez v. City of New Orleans, 538 So.2d 709, 713-14 (La.App.1989) (<HOLDING>). 19 . See Collins, 206 W.Va. at 476, 525
holding that petitioners remedy under title vii of the civil rights act was in addition to remedies available under the collective bargaining agreement in force between his employer and his union holding that union members had standing to bring rico claims for reduced compensation under collective bargaining agreement holding that change in civil service firefighter wage policy was permitted where there was no retroactive impairment or impingement upon collective bargaining contracts between city and firefighters union holding that an employee may sue for breach of a collective bargaining agreement without the union holding that union members suit based on contract that was independent of a collective bargaining agreement was not preempted and not removable