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This report is intended to be a practical guide for transit managers, supervisors, union leaders, members of labor or management negotiating committees, joint labor-management committees, and anyone else who is involved in labor relations in the transit industry. This guide assumes that the reader has only modest experience with collective bargaining negotiations, or none at all. Readers who are experienced negotiators may wish to skip the section in this report called “Some Negotiating Basics” as well as the section near the end of this guide entitled “Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Terms.” |
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Transit organizations, both public and private, are under great internal and external pressures today to improve their organizational effectiveness. Studies have shown that the collective bargaining relationship between union and management, particularly the collective bargaining agreement, has a direct, measurable effect on organizational effectiveness. Both transit management and transit unions have begun to recognize that it is in their mutual interest to improve organizational effectiveness by turning toward a more cooperative collective bargaining relationship. In particular, they have experimented with a negotiating style called “interest-based bargaining” and with a problem solving approach through joint labor-management committees. There is a great deal of misinformation on both subjects, and it is the purpose of this paper to dispel the myths about interest-based bargaining and give examples of when en this approach has worked. A historical background has been provided about5 transit unions as well as transit strikes, and what should have been learned from those mistakes. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Dr. Oestreich is a Professor Emeritus at the College of Business, San José State University. He has more than 25 years experience teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Human Resource Management, Labor Relations, Labor Law, Conflict Management and Negotiating Skills, Compensation Management, and other topics. He has also been a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the Graduate School of Business in Lima, Peru, visiting professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and professor of industrial management at the University of Connecticut. He is still active as a Research Associate for the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University . In addition he is active as a certified trainer of the National Transit Institute. Before his academic career, Dr. Oestreich worked as a human resource manager in an electronics firm, and an employment manager in an R&D firm.
