Annual Collective Bargaining Workshop
Live Event
Date: 01 / 10 / 2025
Time: 8:30am to 2:30pm
Description
Our one-day workshop will again be live, and you may participate either in-person, or virtually via Zoom, based on your preference. Superintendents, business managers and school board negotiators will want to attend to be prepared for the bargaining table!
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:
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- Legal updates to the bargaining law, including Maine Paid Family Medical Leave and minimum wages for support staff
- Practical guidance for bargaining in good faith and preparing for success at the table
- Legal framework of collective bargaining in schools and knowing what issues you can (and cannot) be required to negotiate
- Assessing language proposals and costing out economic proposals
- Traditional and problem-solving approaches to negotiations and identifying which might be right for you
- Current bargaining trends around Maine