A brief summary of issues surrounding collective bargaining under Ch. 9 Bankruptcy Protection for municipalities in California.

1. CalPELRA 2009 Annual Conference Labor Negotiations in Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Debora Boutte, City of Vallejo Marc Levinson, Orrick Charles Sakai, Public Law Group

3. Marc Levinson, Orrick

5. Bankruptcy Update

6. Collective Bargaining Under Ch. 9

7. Impact on Employee Relations

10. Binding arbitration in Charter

11. One of the first cities in CA to implement

12. 3% at 50 for public safety employees

13. 2.7% at 55 for miscellaneous employees

14. Very generous employee and retiree health program5

16. Lost arbitration, Cost: $4 million

17. Economy tanked, revenue loss: $4 million

18. Employee flight, pay out cost: $4 million

19. Negotiation

20. Mediation

22. Administrative Rules/Charter/Muni Code

23. MOU’S

25. Bargaining Under Ch. 9

27. 6/17/08 - Motion for Approval to Reject CBA’s

28. 9/05/08 – BK Judge approves eligibility

29. 9/15/08 – RSHS hired

30. 1/22/09 – VPOA deal cut

32. 8/27/09 – Court approves stipulated rejection of IAFF MOU

33. 8/31/09 – IBEW MOU Rejected

34. Parties Currently in Negotiations

35. 1/4/10 – IAFF Mediation

39. Pre-Rejection Bargaining Under Bildisco

41. Mutual Agreement

42. Unilateral Implementation

44. Impact of Bankruptcy No Or Little Communication Employee Morale In Fighting Discipline Industrial Disability Retirements Employee Exodus

45. Importance Of Communication Communication Is Extremely Critical During Bankruptcy/Hard Economic Times Communication Should Be Done On An On-going Basis Communication Can Avoid: Mistrust Employee Exodus In-fighting

46. Importance Of Communication Communication Can Build: Trust Teams Loyalty Plan Of Action Better Survival Rate

47. Questions