Negotiations Timetable Clause Samples
The Negotiations Timetable clause establishes a clear schedule for the negotiation process between parties. It typically outlines key dates and deadlines for submitting proposals, counteroffers, and finalizing agreements, ensuring that all parties are aware of the expected timeline. By setting these timeframes, the clause helps to keep negotiations on track, prevent unnecessary delays, and provide structure to what can otherwise be an open-ended process.
Negotiations Timetable. Prior to the termination of this CBA, the Union and the City shall exchange written proposals for any changes in negotiable matters pertaining to wages, hours and working conditions sought for the subsequent year(s). Thereafter, negotiations shall be governed by RCW 41.56.
Negotiations Timetable. Negotiations for any changes in this Agreement shall be processed according to the following schedule:
Negotiations Timetable. Per RCW 41.56.492 application of uniformed personnel collective bargaining provisions to employees of public passenger transportation systems - conditions. In addition to the classes of employees listed in RCW 41.56.030(7), the provisions of RCW 41.56.430 through 41.56.452, 41.56.470, 41.56.480, and 41.56.490 shall also be applicable to the employees of a public passenger transportation system of a metropolitan municipal corporation, county transportation authority, public transportation benefit area, or City public passenger transportation system, subject to the following:
A) Negotiations between the public employer and the bargaining representative may commence at any time agreed to by the parties. If no agreement has been reached sixty (60) days after commencement of negotiations, either party may demand that the issues in disagreement be submitted to a mediator. The services of the mediator shall be provided by the commission without cost to the parties, but nothing in this Section or RCW 41.56.440 shall be construed to prohibit the public employer and the bargaining representative from agreeing to substitute at their own expense some other mediator or mediation procedure; and
B) If an Agreement has not been reached following a reasonable period of negotiations and mediation, and the mediator finds that the parties remain at impasse, either party may demand that the issues in disagreement be submitted to an Arbitration panel for a binding and final determination. In making its determination, the Arbitration panel shall mindful of the legislative purpose enumerated in RCW 41.45.430 and as additional standards or guidelines to aid it in reaching a decision(s), shall take into consideration the following factors:
1) The Constitutional and Statutory authority of the Employer.
2) Stipulations of the parties;
3) Compensation package comparisons, economic indices, fiscal constraints, and similar factors determined by the Arbitration panel to be pertinent to the case; and
4) Such other factors, not confined to the foregoing, which are normally or traditionally taken into consideration in the determination of wages, hours, and conditions of employment.
Negotiations Timetable.
A) Prior to the termination of this CBA, the Union and the City shall exchange written proposals for any changes in negotiable matters pertaining to wages, hours and working conditions sought for the subsequent year(s), specifying all sought changes.
B) During the City Manager's preparation of the annual budget while negotiations are occurring for a new CBA, the City Manager or his designee shall consider the Union's proposals and negotiate with the Union's collective bargaining representatives. Any agreement reached in negotiations shall be reduced to writing in a memorandum of agreement which shall be signed by the City Manager and the Union's representative.
C) In the event of disagreement between the collective bargaining committees concerning any Union recommendation and before impasse procedures are invoked the City's representative and the representative of the Union shall each set out in writing, and
D) Nothing herein shall be construed so as to require approval by the Union of any budget, nor any portion thereof, before its submission to and adoption by the City Council.