| Procedure |
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Timeline |
| 1. No
agreement reached |
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After bargaining in good
faith for 150 calendar
days (90 days for interim
issues) |
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Timeline |
| 2. Request
for mediation:
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Three to four weeks |
- Letter of request to
Mediation and
Conciliation Services
(ERB)
- Mediator assigned
- Date set to begin
mediation
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Timeline |
| 3. Mediation
sessions |
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15 days of mediation |
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Timeline |
| 4.
Post-mediation Impasse |
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- Both parties must submit
final offers to mediator
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Within 7 days of impasse |
- Final offer must include
summary of costs
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Within 7 days of impasse |
- Mediator must make final
offers public
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Immediately upon receipt
of written offers |
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Timeline |
| 5. Request
for fact-finding. |
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Within 30 days after
final offers are made
public |
- Both
parties must request
fact-finding
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Timeline |
| 6. ERB
notifies parties
fact-finding initiated |
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One to two weeks after
request |
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Timeline |
| 7. Selection
of factfinder:
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Five days after ERB
notification, fact-finding
is initiated |
- Parties may select
their own factfinder;
or
- ERB submits list of
seven factfinders to
parties
- May be individual or
panel of three
- Parties strike names
to make selection
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Timeline |
| 8.
Notification:
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- Factfinder notified
of selection
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Timeline |
| 9. Date of
hearing:
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- Factfinder sets date
for hearing
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Timeline |
| 10. Prior to
hearing:
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- Statement of issues
sent to the factfinder
and other party
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Seven days prior to
hearing |
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Timeline |
| 11. Hearing |
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Two to three weeks after
factfinder is notified of
selection |
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Timeline |
| 12.
Factfinder’s report
issued |
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Not more than 30 days
from date hearing
concluded |
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Timeline |
| 13. Consider
report:
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- Accept or reject
recommendations and
notify ERB and the
other party
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Not more than five
working days after report
sent to parties |
- If both parties
accept,
recommendations and
any tentative
agreements become the
contract
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- If one or both sides
reject, ERB publicized
the factfinder’s
report
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Five
calendar days after ERB
receives notice one party
does not or both parties
do not accept the findings |
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| 14.
Mediation, negotiations
continue |
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Timeline |
| 15.
Strike/implementation of
final offer |
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No sooner than 30 days
after the mediator
publishes the parties’
final offers (or the
factfinder’s report is
published) the union may
provide 10 days’ prior
written notice of strike
date or the district may
implement its final offer |
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Bargaining
