Bargaining Impasse Continues, Settlement Offer Rejected
Since December, UHPA’s Collective Bargaining Committee sought to utilize the mediation process, required by Chapter 89, to settle the current bargaining impasse. In an effort to be responsive to the Governor’s request to settle the contract by accepting a contract identical to the current one, the Bargaining Committee sought authorization from the UHPA Board of Directors to make such a proposal. A caveat was added that if any other public employees reached a settlement that increased salary over the next two years UHPA would be allowed to open up salary negotiations.