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Practitioner recommends collaborative approach to city collective bargaining; survey finds trust and transparency gaps
Summary
A CPM practicum on the city's collective bargaining process found staff and union negotiators view trust and transparency as major issues and recommends training, trust-building workshops, and use of neutral facilitators; the study used a targeted survey of bargaining participants and did not produce a binding agreement.
A CPM practicum presented by a city staff member identified trust, transparency and negotiator preparedness as the principal obstacles to reaching durable collective bargaining agreements between the city and civil service bargaining units.
The presenter (identified in public remarks as "Mister Rodriguez") said the project began after he joined the city and observed collective bargaining practices at the fire department. He described the prevailing bargaining model as adversarial and argued for a collaborative approach tailored to public-sector constraints in Texas, where public-sector employees do not have a…
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