Collective Bargaining Training

Public-Sector Supervisors must understand how collective bargaining works in order to effectively manage personnel and to protect and operate the organization. Issues involving collective bargaining can be counterintuitive and nuanced, leading to confusion and potential long-lasting consequences for the employer if handled without careful attention. This comprehensive class will help public-sector supervisors, administration, and human resources professionals understand the following:

• Wisconsin’s collective bargaining law • Strategies for approaching collective bargaining issues • Effectively handling collective bargaining negotiations from preparation to at-the-table strategies, to costing proposals, and to preparing for interest arbitration • Protecting the organization’s management rights through effective contract administration • Methodically processing grievances • Unique issues such as past practices, prohibited practices, and union behaviors. • The importance of leverage, how management might make poor decisions to deleverage itself, and tactics used by unions to gain leverage.

Participants will approach these issues through instruction, scenarios, and through hands-on exercises including grievance processing exercises and collective bargaining exercises.

Instructors: This fast-paced class will be taught by Patrick Glynn from Bold Path Consulting and Attorney Kyle Gulya from von Briesen & Roper. Patrick and Kyle each have more than two decades of Wisconsin public-sector labor[1]management relations experience and have handled collective bargaining negotiations and processed numerous grievance arbitrations and interest arbitration cases.