Annual Collective Bargaining Workshop

Our one-day workshop will again be live, but now you may select to 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:  

• Legal updates to the bargaining law, including Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave law.
• 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.

HIGHLIGHTS FOR PARTICIPANTS:

✓  Learn strategies for success at the bargaining table and tips on how to achieve positive outcomes for public education

✓  Gain knowledge of legal bargaining requirements

✓  Receive practical training in the bargaining process

✓  Attendees will participate in and learn from actual bargaining exercises

✓  Hear our answers to your questions!

Need Help?

Contact Morgan Stickney (mstickney@dwmlaw.com) if you have any questions at all.