Are their consequences for prohibiting collective bargaining?
Two separate articles by public policy analysts have delineated the adverse consequences of not having public sector collective bargaining. Most of these points are taken from their articles: • Manager-Employee Relations • Many manager-employee problems remain unresolved. • Some managers feel they are placed in the conflicting role of representing their employees to management. • Managers are sometimes drawn into small, distracting, time-consuming disputes. • Some managers tend to avoid direct interaction with public employee groups and lose opportunities to foster improved relations. • The Character of Negotiations • Negotiations take place under conditions of unbalanced power relationships. • Negotiations are not eliminated in public agencies. Sometimes negotiations simply proceed outside formal channels but without formal rules. • Failure to negotiate group grievances can result in multiple individual grievances, choking the system of dispute resolution for everyone.
Two separate articles by public policy analysts have delineated the adverse consequences of not having public sector collective bargaining. Most of these points are taken from their articles: • Manager-Employee Relations • Many manager-employee problems remain unresolved. • Some managers feel they are placed in the conflicting role of representing their employees to management. • Managers are sometimes drawn into small, distracting, time-consuming disputes. • Some managers tend to avoid direct interaction with public employee groups and lose opportunities to foster improved relations. • The Character of Negotiations • Negotiations take place under conditions of unbalanced power relationships. • Negotiations are not eliminated in public agencies. Sometimes negotiations simply proceed outside formal channels but without formal rules. • Failure to negotiate group grievances can result in multiple individual grievances, choking the system of dispute resolution for everyone. • Failure to ne
