“Let’s Talk About This” An Introduction to Collective Bargaining.

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“Let’s Talk About This” An Introduction to Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining: What Is It?

The Basics of Collective Bargaining CSU has to bargain or “meet and confer” with APC on “all matters within the scope of representation.” The “scope of representation” includes “wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment” but excludes, e.g., the “necessity or organization of any service.” The obligation to meet and confer requires CSU to “endeavor to reach agreement,” but it does not “compel [it] to agree to any proposal.” If bargaining results in “impasse,” then APC can strike and CSU can impose its “last, best, and final offer” once the parties have exhausted the statutory impasse procedure

Decision Bargaining If CSU desires to make a change that directly involves a matter that is within the scope of representation by APC, CSU has to give APC “notice and an opportunity to meet and confer” about the decision to make the change. Failure to do so is an “unfair practice.”

Decision Bargaining cont. “Within the scope of representation”: “Wages,” “Hours or employment,” and “Other terms and conditions of employment”

Decision Bargaining cont. “Other Terms and Conditions of Employment”: (1)“[The subject] involves the employment relationship”; (2)“the subject is of such concern to management and employees that conflict is likely to occur, and the mediatory influence of collective negotiations is the appropriate means of resolving the conflict; and” (3)“the employer's obligation to negotiate would not significantly abridge its freedom to exercise those managerial prerogatives (including matters of fundamental policy) essential to the achievement of the employer's mission.”

Decision Bargaining cont. A Sad and Cautionary Tale About Parking

Decision Bargaining cont. Round 1 “Parking at [CSU campuses] is not a condition of employment. Employees are not required to drive to work. However, in the event they choose to drive, the employees are not limited to the permitted spaces. They may, like students and members of the public, park in "daily use" spaces rather than permitted spaces or, alternatively, park off campus. Ultimately, the evidence is insufficient to establish a relationship between CSU's parking policy and any condition of employment. Accordingly, we believe parking location does not involve the "employment relationship." As such, parking location does not fall within scope under "other terms and conditions of employment."” (Emphasis supplied.)

Decision Bargaining cont. Round 2 “The question here is... whether the terms and conditions on which an employer chooses to provide parking to its employees (like the terms and conditions on which it chooses to provide food) “involve the employment relationship.” The answer to that question is obvious. Just as the terms and conditions on which an employer makes food available for its employees are germane to the working environment, so are the terms and conditions on which an employer makes parking available. Indeed, the availability of parking may have a significant impact on whether an employee can get to work in the first place.... For the foregoing reasons, we find the board’s conclusion that “parking location does not involve the ‘employment relationship’” clearly erroneous.”

Decision Bargaining cont. Round 3, Strike 1 “[T]he Charging Parties' collective bargaining agreements with CSU have never addressed parking access, location, or allocation. Moreover, with the exception of the instant dispute, these parking changes have not been grieved or otherwise challenged in the form of an unfair practice charge. Thus, based on our review of the record, we find that these changes have not typically resulted in conflict between the Charging Parties and CSU at either CSUS or CSUN. Accordingly, we find the Charging Parties failed to demonstrate that the subject is of such concern to management and employees that conflict is likely to occur.”

Decision Bargaining cont. Round 3, Strike 2 “[A]ny resolution of a dispute regarding the location/availability of parking spaces must take into consideration the interests of both the [employees] and the students. However, collective negotiations between the Charging Parties and CSU can only focus on the needs of the [employees], thereby depriving the students of the opportunity to assert and defend their parking interests. Accordingly, even if parking location is a subject of such concern that conflict is likely to occur, we find collective negotiations is not the appropriate means of resolving the conflict between the interested parties.”

Decision Bargaining cont. Round 3, Strike 3 “[T]he decision to restrict parking was aimed at the broader objective to provide adequate parking for the students, [employees], and the general public. The record demonstrates CSU's need for flexibility in parking access in order to accommodate changes in the student population, construction and new challenges facing each campus. [I]mposing an obligation to negotiate such decisions would carry the bargaining process beyond the bargaining unit and into CSU's overall mission and its relationships with third parties. Accordingly, it would significantly abridge CSU's freedom to exercise those managerial prerogatives essential to the efficient operation of its campuses and, thus, the achievement of its mission.”

Exercise According to the European comic book series Asterix, collective bargaining changed the way in which Roman soldiers were called to the mess hall. Compare the panel on the left, from Asterix at the Olympic Games, with the panels on the next slide, from Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods.

Exercise cont. Given the reasoning of PERB and the Court of Appeal in the parking case we just discussed, was this a subject that was “within the scope of representation,” i.e., did the officers have to bargain with the men about the “cookhouse call?

Exercise cont. Answer: No. The question how soldiers are called to the mess hall “”involves the employment relationship,” given that “the terms and conditions on which an employer makes food available for its employees are germane to the working environment.” However, this question will likely be deemed not to be “of such concern to management and employees that conflict is likely to occur,” even if “the mediatory influence of collective negotiations is the appropriate means of resolving [any] conflict” that does occur about it.

Decision Bargaining cont. 1.Layoffs are not within scope but reductions in hours are. 3.Contracting out may be within scope... “where the employer simply replaces its employees with those of a contractor to perform the same services under similar circumstances; or” “where the decision was motivated substantially by potential savings in labor costs.” and so may be transfers of bargaining unit work. where “unit employees ceased to perform work which they had previously performed or” where “nonunit employees began to perform duties previously performed exclusively by unit employees.”

Ben Shahn: “Unemployment” (1938)

Decision Bargaining cont. When does the employer have to give the union “notice or an opportunity to bargain” over a negotiable decision? “Notice must be given sufficiently in advance of a firm decision to make a change to allow the exclusive representative a reasonable amount of time to decide whether to make a demand to negotiate.” To whom in the union does the employer have to give notice? “[N]otice of a proposed change must be given to an official of the union who has the authority to act on behalf of the organization.... The knowledge of one or even several members of the bargaining unit, who lack authority to act in an official capacity, will not be imputed to the organization.”

Decision Bargaining cont. What are the elements of an unlawful “unilateral change”? (1)“[T]he employer breached or altered the parties' written agreement or its own established past practice”; (2)“such action was taken without giving the other party notice or an opportunity to bargain over the change”; (3)“the change was not merely an isolated breach of the contract, but... has a generalized effect or continuing impact upon bargaining unit members' terms and conditions of employment”; and (4)“the change in policy concerns a matter within the scope of representation.”

George Segal: “Collective Bargaining” (1975)

Decision Bargaining cont. When does a charge alleging a unilateral change have to be filed? Within six months of when the union knows or should have known of the employers intent to implement the change and not a single day later!

Effects Bargaining If CSU desires to make a change that does not directly involve a matter within the scope of representation by APC, CSU still has to bargain with APC about the “reasonably foreseeable” effects on matters within the scope of representation by APC, but not the decision to make the change itself. Failure to do so is again an unfair practice.

Effects Bargaining cont. “Whether or not such effects actually materialize is not the issue. So long as [the union] identified a reasonably foreseeable impact on [any matter within the scope of representation such as] workload, [the employer] was obligated to meet and negotiate in good faith those potential impacts prior to implementation.” Trustees of the California State University, PERB Dec. No H (2012)

Effects Bargaining cont. When does the employer have to give the union “notice or an opportunity to bargain” over the effect of a non-negotiable decision? “The employer has a duty to provide reasonable notice and an opportunity to bargain before it implements a decision within its managerial prerogative that has foreseeable effects on negotiable terms and conditions of employment.” County of Santa Clara, PERB Dec. No M (2013)

Effects Bargaining cont. What are the elements of a violation of the duty to bargain in good faith over the effects of a non- negotiable decision? The employer (1)implemented a non-negotiable decision that had reasonably foreseeable effects on terms and conditions of employment; and (2)(a) failed to give notice and an opportunity to bargain over these effects to the union before implementation, or (b) failed to honor a request by the union that identified these effects and requested to bargain over them before implementation.

The campus administration has announced that it will lay off half of the Student Services Professionals (SSPs) in Student Affairs. Write a bargaining request. Exercise

Exercise cont. APC has learned that the campus administration has decided to lay off half of the Student Services Professionals (SSPs) in Student Affairs. APC hereby requests to meet and confer over the negotiable effects of this decision, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) effects on the workload of the remaining SSPSs, (2)....

After Bargaining “When memoranda require legislative action pursuant to this section, if the Legislature or the Governor fails fully to fund the memoranda or to take the requisite curative action, the entire memoranda shall be referred back to the parties for further meeting and conferring; provided, however, that the parties may agree that provisions of the memoranda that are nonbudgetary and do not require funding shall take effect whether or not the funding requests submitted to the Legislature are approved.” Gov’t Code § 35721(b)

California State Budget

CSU State Allocation & Students

Review What does the employer have to bargain about? Decision Bargaining The decision to implement a change regarding a subject that is within the scope of representation Effects Bargaining The effects of a non- negotiable decision to implement a change on any subjects that are within scope

Review cont. When does the employer have to give the union notice and opportunity to bargain? Decision Bargaining Sufficiently in advance of a firm decision to make a change to allow the exclusive representative a reasonable amount of time to decide whether to make a demand to negotiate. Effects Bargaining Sufficiently in advance of the implementation date to allow for meaningful negotiations prior to implementation.

Review cont. What are the elements of an unfair practice charge? Decision Bargaining 1.Employer breached or altered agreement or past practice without giving union notice or opportunity to bargain; 3.The change has a generalized effect or continuing impact upon bargaining unit members' terms and conditions of employment; and 4. The change concerns a matter within the scope of representation. Effects Bargaining 1.Employer implemented non- negotiable decision that had reasonably foreseeable effects on terms and conditions of employment; and 2.Employer a.failed to giving union notice or opportunity to bargain or b.failed to honor union’s request to bargain over identified effects.

Collective Bargaining: Where Is It?

Lawrence, MA: Textile Strike 1912