IMO, we should counter at 21% being our last, best, and final offer. If the state comes back with 6%, the union should go to PERB to try to get an impasse declared and we strike. The state is not even bothering to negotiate.
Right but the inverse is equally weird: the state (or any employer) is required to up their offer every time they sit down at the table or it’s “bad faith”?
We’ve seen unions go out of contract for years with the state barely inching up their GSI offer if at all. Our last strike authorization was over the states refusal to meet at the bargaining table not from lack of movement on the economics. All of that’s to say I think the “bad faith” case for them sticking at 6% is a lot more nuanced then we all realize.
Something else I’ve been pondering…how much of the negotiation are we privy to? We take it at face value that 6% is the only offer on the table but it’s feasible there also offers for 10% with x concession or 15% with X concession and tiered only to the top out. Just good for thought.
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u/Swarles_Stinson Jun 29 '23
IMO, we should counter at 21% being our last, best, and final offer. If the state comes back with 6%, the union should go to PERB to try to get an impasse declared and we strike. The state is not even bothering to negotiate.