Why do administrators refuse to meet with any employee representatives?
Probably because their attorneys have provided incorrect legal interpretations, or perhaps because they prefer not to deal with employee concerns or resolve workplace conflict. Again from Okun’s article (see Question #3): “In 1969 the Attorney General advised the Guilford County School System that under the state law the school board had ‘no authority to recognize professional organizations or their representatives as bargaining agents for group or collective contracts,’ but that this did not preclude meetings and discussion.” (p. 226) The article notes other cases where courts have ruled “meet and confer” arrangements different in principle from collective bargaining. Return to the top.
Probably because their attorneys have provided incorrect legal interpretations, or perhaps because they prefer not to deal with employee concerns or resolve workplace conflict. Again from Okun’s article (see Question #3): “In 1969 the Attorney General advised the Guilford County School System that under the state law the school board had ‘no authority to recognize professional organizations or their representatives as bargaining agents for group or collective contracts,’ but that this did not preclude meetings and discussion.” (p. 226) The article notes other cases where courts have ruled “meet and confer” arrangements different in principle from collective bargaining. Return to the top.
