REPRESENTING UNIONS & EMPLOYEES SINCE 1936
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Oakland: 510.625.9700 | Sacramento: 916.325.2100

Public Sector Clients

COUNTIES

  • Sacramento County Department of Health & Human Services and AFCSME Local 160. Consultation; facilitation of meetings to improve the employee-management relationship at a mental health treatment center.
  • Yolo County Probation Department. Facilitation of strategic planning and mediation of inter-management conflict.
  • Sacramento County Probation Department and Sacramento County Probation Association. Facilitation of a labor-management committee and off-site management retreats—for 5 years.
  • Sacramento County Health & Welfare Agency and United Public Employees Local 1. Consultation, training and facilitation to develop unit-based labor-management teams to address workload issues.
  • Sacramento County and its various unions. Facilitation of the county-wide labor management partnership.
  • Stanislaus Emergency Dispatchers Association and Stanislaus County. Facilitations of negotiations.
  • Stanislaus County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and Stanislaus County. Facilitations of negotiations. Cities
  • City of Irvine and six independent unions. Facilitation of non-sworn negotiations (for the last 4 cycles), multi-union labor-management committees and inter-departmental committees.
  • City of Sacramento, Sacramento Start. Facilitation to resolve inter-program staff-management conflict.
  • Modesto Fire Fighters Association and the City of Modesto. Facilitations of negotiations.
  • Modesto Police Management Association and the City of Modesto. Facilitations of negotiations.
  • Modesto Police Officers’ Association and the City of Modesto. Facilitations of negotiations.

SPECIAL DISTRICTS

  • Santa Clara Valley Water District and its three unions. Facilitation of multi-union collective bargaining.
  • South Tahoe Public Utility District and IBEW. Facilitation of labor-management committee to restructure the agency.
  • Sacramento Regional Transit District and its three unions. Facilitation of multi-stakeholder negotiations on health care.
  • East Bay Municipal District MUD and IAES Local 21. Facilitation of labor-management committee to reclassify positions and reorganize the M&O Department.
  • Sacramento Municipal Utility District and IBEW 1245. Facilitation of negotiations. Community College Districts
  • Allen Hancock Community College and its unions. Facilitation of collective bargaining for all units.
  • Sierra Community College District and its unions. Facilitation of multi-party collective bargaining; facilitation of board trustee retreats; facilitation of strategic planning council.
  • Southwest Community College District and its unions. Facilitation of vision development and mediation of labor-management conflict.
  • Napa Community College and its unions. Facilitation of board retreat.
  • Los Angeles Community College District and AFT. Facilitation to resolve labor-management conflict. K-12 School Districts
  • California Public Education Labor-Management Committee. Consultation, training, facilitation and staff to a committee composed the 4 largest employer associations and 4 largest unions representing employees in public education in California.  The committee is implementing a state-wide strategy to address the rapidly rising cost of health care and to promote reform.
  • California School Boards Association. Facilitation of conflict within several boards of trustees for large urban districts; co-development of DVD on collective bargaining.
  • Dixie Elementary District & CTA & CSEA. Facilitation of multi-party negotiations and labor-management committee—for 8 years.
  • Orland Unified School District & CTA & CSEA. Facilitation of multi-party negotiations—for 3 years.
  • Lompoc Unified School District. Facilitation of negotiations.
  • Rescue Elementary School District. Facilitation of negotiations.
  • Bonita Unified School District & BUTA. Facilitation of negotiations.
  • San Juan Unified School District & CSEA. Facilitation of negotiations.
  • San Francisco Unified School District. Facilitation of board retreats re: effective governance.
  • San Rafael Elementary School District. Facilitation of negotiations.
  • San Rafael High School District. Facilitation of negotiations.

OTHER PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

  • Sacramento County Housing and Rehabilitation Agency & its unions. Facilitation of negotiations; facilitation of vision development and relationship mending meetings.
  • UC Medical Center & AFSCME. IBPS training and mediation of labor-management conflict within a department.
  • United States Bureau of Reclamation. Mediation of workplace disputes.
  • Sacramento Employment and Training Agency & AFSCME. Facilitation of negotiations.
  • National Park Service, Yosemite Concession Services, Teamsters Local 386 and SEIU Local 535. Facilitation of multi-stakeholder committee and contract negotiations.
  • Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital and CNA. Facilitation of negotiations.