Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in Public Sector

Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in Public Sector

Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in Public Sector

Collective Bargaining and Impasse Resolution in Public Sector

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Overview

Although much has been written concerning labor relations and collective bargaining in the private sector, negotiators working in public sector employer-employee relations have been handicapped by the paucity of practical information relating to the specific demands of their field. Responding to an evident need, Dilts and Walsh supply detailed guidelines for the practicing negotiator and at the same time enlarge our knowledge of an area that is of increasing significance to academics and professionals alike. They provide in-depth explanations of the principles and practices of fact-finding, interest arbitration, mediation, contract negotiation, and impasse resolution procedures for the public sector, with particular emphasis on labor relations problems confronting state and local governments. The first four chapters outline the basics of public sector collective bargaining. Labor law, contract negotiations, impasse creation, negotiation strategies and tactics, and relevant economic and behavioral issues are discussed. The steps typically found in statutory impasse resolution procedures are examined. The authors next focus on mediation techniques, the situations in which they most often prove successful, and the procedures used in fact-finding and interest arbitration hearings. They explain the differing decisional standards employed by arbitrators and fact-finders in cases involving economic issues and language issues. Other topics covered are factors affecting impasse resolution, the effects of impasse resolution on labor relations, guidelines for utilizing fact-finding reports and interest arbitration awards, and experimental impasse resolution techniques that have been applied in the public sector. The most comprehensive, practitioner-oriented work in its field, this volume will be of value to professionals, e.g., union and management officials and representatives, and academics concerned with public sector labor-management relations, labor law, and human resources management.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780899302478
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/14/1988
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

David A. Dilts is professor of business administration at Indiana University, Purdue-Fort Wayne.

William J. Walsh earned his PhD from Indiana University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to Public Sector Collective Bargining
Introduction to Public Sector Bargining and Impasse Resolution
Labor Law and Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector
Contract Negotiations and the Birth of Impasses
Negotiations Strategies and Tactics
Public Sector Impasse Resolution Procedures
Impasse Procedures
Mediation of Impasses
Preparation Procedures in Fact Finding and Interest Arbitration and Fact Finding
Decisional Standards of Fact Finding and Arbitrators: Economic Issues
Decisional Standards for Fact Finding and Interest Arbitrators: Contract Language Issues
The Effects of Statutory Impasse Procedures
Experimental Impasse Resolution Procedures
Impasse Resolution in the Public Sector: A Summary
Appendix A: A Fact Finder's Report
Appendix B: Arbitrator's Award
Appendix C: Code of Ethics
Index

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