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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1996)
Police and firefighter unions seek changes to bargaining law ■ REPEAL: Arbitrators must choose between last and best offers of labor and management By Charles E. Beggs The Associated Press SALEM — In 1995, the Oregon Legisla ture approved an overhaul of collective bar gaining laws in a bid to put more balance in labor dealings between state and local gov ernments and their workers. Now, police and firefighter unions are hoping to persuade Oregon voters to repeal parts of the law that they say are unfair to public safety workers. The key issue is binding arbitration, the final step for settling labor disputes for public employees who cannot legally strike — mainly firefighters, police and correctional officers. The previous law allowed arbitrators to look at each side’s last offers and fashion a compromise settlement package. Under the 1995 law, arbitrators must choose between management’s and labor’s “last, best offers,” but cannot create a set tlement somewhere between the two. “The way we dealt with employers be fore was fairly balanced. A third party crafted the best decision. Now we can’t do that,” said Pat West, a Salem firefighter. But a spokesman for the state’s fire chiefs opposes Measure 43 and said the 1995 law will result in more realistic offers being made. “Under the old system, management typically made a lowball offer, and unions made highball proposals,” said West, who is a sponsor of the repeal proposal, Mea sure 43, on the Nov. 5 ballot. “There should be savings to taxpayers, because the law now forces both manage ment and labor to come to the table with facts to support their position,” West said. Mary Botkin, lobbyist for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said the 1995 law does not en sure better settlements for anyone. 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