Successful labor negotiations are essential to maintaining a reasonable labor relations program and a high-functioning organization that can effectively deliver public services with limited resources. Moreover, addressing almost all the problems public agencies face requires meeting and conferring with labor. Successful labor negotiations deliver affordable solutions to those problems while maintaining effective working relationships between labor and management.

RPMG can help you tackle all facets of the collective bargaining process and achieve successful, responsible, and affordable labor agreements. Collectively we have decades of experience in all aspects of labor relations. Whether representing public agencies in labor negotiations, mediation, fact finding or interest arbitration, providing subject matter expertise and analytical support to the bargaining process, or handling grievances and unfair labor practice charges we work diligently on behalf of public employers to achieve their goals.

Our team also has deep experience with the more technically complex aspects of labor relations, including pension and retiree medical programs, class and compensation studies, fiscal analysis for bargaining and more. No firm in California can match our experience in helping clients achieve savings in the complicated and evolving areas of retirement and retiree medical benefits. Our firm is at “ground zero” of California’s pension reform efforts and related litigation.

From providing intermittent strategic advice to your bargaining team, to serving as your chief negotiator, to providing full-service assistance with everything necessary for a successful negotiation – including developing a labor negotiation strategy, proposal drafting, costing, comparability studies, benefit and fiscal analysis, notetaking at the table and more – we are well-equipped to provide any level of assistance our clients need.