Getting More Than They Bargain For
Only a year since the last round of negotiations, management and union representatives once again faced their counterparts across the bargaining table in the Los Angeles Unified School District this year, as 100 high school students participated in the Collective Bargaining Institute's annual mock bargaining session. Founded in 1991 by the school district, the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, and numerous local unions, the institute has received funding from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service since 1998 to teach weeklong lessons to economics and social studies classes throughout the district. The most comprehensive labor issues program in America's high schools, the program brings in real union and management representatives to advise the student participants, and the FMCS is seeking to take the program to the national level.
See "Getting More Than They Bargain For", DANIEL HERNANDEZ, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2003