Bargaining Update for LA City Professionals: City Files for Impasse – What’s Next?

Failure to provide financial information: The City has stated that there is $63-million general fund deficit and given an arbitrary figure to your bargaining unit’s obligation to that figure. But they have not supplied us with data to justify both figures.Throughout this negotiation, the City has stalled or refused to comply with our repeated information requests.

Bad-faith bargaining/ Regressive bargaining: On Aug. 25 the City gave a counter proposal with additional concessions. This is
not good faith bargaining and is regressive.

What happens now?
We will file a formal opposition to the CAO’s declaration of impasse and an unfair labor practice of bad faith bargaining by early next week. The ERB must hear those charges and decide whether to declare impasse or whether bargaining can continue. If negotiations move forward in impasse, here are some details on the process:

1. Mediation: An independent third party who helps both parties work toward settlement.

2. Fact finding: A neutral third party who hears the outstanding issues and makes specific
recommendations.

3. Final Steps: The city can only move to unilaterally implement their last, best, and final offer after these steps are exhausted and only with a majority vote of the city council.

Support Bargaining
The bargaining team needs a mass numbers of members to contact the Executive Employee Relations Committee every Wednesday.

Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
213-978-0600
Mayor@lacity.org

Miguel Santana
Chief Adminstrative Officer
213-458-2386
Miguel.Santana@lacity.org

Dennis Zine
Council District 3
(213) 473-7003
councilmember.zine@lacity.org

Bernard Parks
Council District 8
(213) 473-7008
councilmember.parks@lacity.org

Jan Perry
Council District 9
(213) 473-7009
councilmember.perry@lacity.org

Eric Garcetti
Council District 13
(213) 473-7013
councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org