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Item 40 - Increase Transparency with City Labor Negotiations
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Human Resources <br />www.santa-ana.org/departments/human-resources/ <br />Item # 40 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />December 20, 2022 <br />TOPIC: Increase Transparency with City Labor Negotiations <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Increase Transparency with City Labor Negotiations <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Accept informational report and provide direction to staff. <br />DISCUSSION <br />On October 4, 2022, the City of Santa Ana City Council (“Council”) directed staff to bring <br />back options in regards to increasing transparency with City labor negotiations, <br />specifically labor negotiations with the Santa Ana Police Officers Association (“SAPOA”). <br />Labor Negotiations between the City of Santa Ana (“City”) and its respective labor unions <br />is governed by California Government Code (“GC”) §3500 (Meyers-Milias Brown Act or <br />“MMBA”). The MMBA of 1968 established collective bargaining for California’s municipal, <br />county, and local special district employers and employees. GC §3505 states in part, <br />“The governing body of a public agency,…, shall meet and confer in good faith regarding <br />wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of such <br />recognized employee organizations, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 3501, and <br />shall consider fully such presentations as are made by the employee organization on <br />behalf of its members prior to arriving at a determination of policy or course of action.” <br />Pursuant to the MMBA, each party must negotiate in good faith and to endeavor to reach <br />an agreement on matters within the scope of representation. Labor negotiations between <br />public municipalities, including the City, and labor unions (“labor,” “unions,” or “labor <br />unions”) generally occur in private; that is, negotiations are closed from the public and the <br />public does not view and/or opine on the City or labor’s proposal(s). At the onset and <br />during the course of labor negotiations (with a respective union), the City’s labor strategy <br />is discussed and determined during Council closed session deliberation and conveyed <br />via the City’s labor representative to a respective labor union at the negotiation table. As <br />a local municipality may be negotiating simultaneously with multiple labor unions, it is
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