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Teamsters representative urges council to direct more collaborative bargaining; closed session had no reportable action
Summary
Andrew Coleman, Teamsters business agent, told the council the city's negotiator has been adversarial in ongoing contract talks and urged the council to instruct negotiators to adopt a collaborative, solution‑oriented approach; city attorney reported one closed‑session labor item and no reportable action.
Andrew Coleman, who identified himself as the Teamsters business agent representing Redlands Teamsters, used his public comment time to press the council on ongoing contract negotiations.
Coleman said the union’s members enter bargaining in good faith but that "the city's negotiator thus far has not reflected that same spirit," calling the tone "unnecessarily adversarial, dismissive of reasonable proposals and…
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