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This 7 page paper discusses some aspects of the relationship between California police unions and other law enforcement collective bargaining agencies and management. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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exercised by certain groups of people such as law enforcement officers, firefighters or other public servants, particularly when our safety depends on having them available whenever theyre needed. But as
the cost of living has soared, salaries have not kept pace, even in these most vital professions. This paper analyzes the relationship between management (in the form of county or
city managers) and labor (in the form of police or sheriffs unions) in California. It also gives a brief history of the relationships and where it might go over time.
Discussion Union membership and the right to collective bargaining were not available to public employees in California until the late 1960s (Dietrich, 2006). Such membership, as well as the use
of collective bargaining, was expressly forbidden to state and local employees by the National Labor Relations Act (Dietrich, 2006). Then in 1968, California "enacted the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act to govern labor
relations in local government" (Dietrich, 2006). Three other pieces of legislation have been enacted since then, covering "state, school district and higher education employees" (Dietrich, 2006). Collective bargaining by
public employees is fairly new (Dietrich, 2006); and probably stems from the idea that there simply are some jobs that always have to have people available; police, sheriffs and firefighters
seem to fall into this category. That is, we depend on police and fire personnel for our safety, sometimes our very lives, and we dont want to be told that
the police cannot respond because theyre on the picket line. But gradually we began to accept the idea of collective bargaining and union representation in the law enforcement community. In
the "trades and maintenance sections of the public sector" the idea of union representation and collective bargaining was already fairly common; public works construction workers were familiar with the "higher
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