Sentences with phrase «contract bargaining process»

The press conference highlighted the crisis LA public schools face, the causes, and community solutions such as community schools, increasing revenues and per pupil spending, and utilizing the contract bargaining process to win victories for the entire school community.

For generations, they have been able to control policy change by focusing attention on the adults in the schools through the contract bargaining process, through labor laws in the legislature and through a supportive media environment.

Not exact matches

Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government's decision to legislate a contract and put an end to their collective bargaining process.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

The case for reforming the collective bargaining process has become so strong that even some union supporters have sought to persuade union locals to abandon an industrial model of contract negotiations for a more collaborative «new unionism.»

Collective Bargaining: The process by which a district and a union representing teachers arrive at a contract spelling out work hours and conditions, salary, benefits, and processes for handling grievances.

However, in California and 20 other states, teachers unions are allowed to charge nonmembers a fee equivalent to dues to cover the costs of bargaining contracts, processing grievances, and other administrative activities (see Figure 1).

States should improve their teacher licensing processes to ensure that the effectiveness of all teachers is assessed on a regular basis as a condition for the granting and renewal of a state teaching license — regardless of the particular criteria for evaluation and tenure laid out in state tenure laws and collective bargaining contracts

If you missed the contract conventions and survey and are wondering how you can weigh in on what issues matter to you, never fear - the union is hosting an opportunity for community members to discuss the latest bargaining update and advocacy throughout the bargaining process.

School districts and unions frustrated with adversarial bargaining approaches can partner with the CEC to implement Interest - Based Bargaining (IBB)-- a process that typically leads to both contract agreement and stronger working relabargaining approaches can partner with the CEC to implement Interest - Based Bargaining (IBB)-- a process that typically leads to both contract agreement and stronger working relaBargaining (IBB)-- a process that typically leads to both contract agreement and stronger working relationships.

She is a member of the Chandler Education Association and was part of the Super Q Committee which is comprised of administrators, certified and classified personnel as a part of the bargaining process for contracts and benefits.

Designing and implementing strategies to improve contracting and bargaining practices, salary and compensation programs, performance review processes, and incentive programs for strong leaders; and

They may counsel union or management clients on collective bargaining agreements, grievance and arbitration processes, contract administration issues, and strikes and work stoppages.

We stay abreast of changes promulgated by the Department of Education and advise our clients with regard to how it impacts spending, employment contracts, and the collective bargaining process in the educational setting.

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It is the practice of law when the outcome of a process is to produce legal agreements — contracts — enforceable by a court of law and the state's police power, and which in fact will affect an individual's legal rights for years to come (notwithstanding the interests - based win - win versus rights - based positional bargaining structure to get there).