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metropolitan Area management A/locJatlon of the Twin City Area DATE: February 28, 2005 RECEIVED TO: Kim Moore-Sykes, City Administrator City of Centerville 'u :j ~~,~3 FROM: Wally Wysopal, Chainnan, Metropolitan Area Management Association Labor Relations Committee - Conference Leader SUBJECT: LABOR RELATIONS POLICY DECISIONS FOR CITY MANAGERS The basic strategies for labor negotiations at the local level appear to be changing and City Managers need to understand, effectively deal with, and influence such changes. Simple comparisons relative to general wage levels/increases among a group of comparable cities are of increasingly limited usefulness given the unevenness of cutbacks in State aid among cities and the increased propensity by cities and unions to negotiate on the basis of "total compensation levels of wage sf wage equivalents" (wage plus premium pay plus employer contributions for health insurance). The emerging strategies present the following negotiation issues: total compensation v. separate negotiations conceming wage/wage equivalents; the desirability of establishing different benefit levels for different employee jobdasses;the use of ability to pay aiguffients which' include the compensation h:velsof acity',(erectorateima taX capacity per cipita,a'nd the inVolvement of the public in negotiations issues. City managers, particularly those who are not personally engaged in negotiations, need to know and be able to effectively deal with both the emerging negotiations strategies and the viable alternatives to negotiations, to resolve certain operating issues, such as changes to organizational structures, which is a unilateral right provided for cities by law and many labor agreements as long as the "effects" of such changes are negotiated within the stipulations of the provisions of an existing labor agreement.. For information about the emerging policy decisions and strategies with regard to labor negotiations and recent relevant arbitration decisions, you are invited to attend the Metropolitan Area Management Association Labor Relations Committee Policy Decisions for City Managers Conference to be held on April 26, 2005 at the City of St. Louis Park Rec. Center, 3700 Monterey Drive, St. Louis Park, MN. The Conference will start at 8:30 A.M and conclude at 12:30 P.M. - registration to begin at 8:00 A.M. The cost of the conference is eightyaollars ($80.00) per participant to be payable to the City of North St.Paul, 2400 Margaret Street North, North St. Paul, MN 55109 and Included with the detachable advance registration form. . Wally Wysopal, Chairman, Metropolitan Area Management Association Labor Relations Committee - Conference Leader ..