Budget Preview: Furloughs, Private Partnerships

Source: By Ken Draper, City Watch LA (CA), April 10, 2009

The Mayor's budget is due in 10 days. At a press conference on Monday, he offered a glimpse at some of what he will likely offer in the face of a $530 million City budget deficit: city worker sacrifice and possible public-private partnerships that could produce more than a billion dollars.

....... No detail on what those partnerships might look like, but sources have said that privatization of the City's parking elements ... lots, meters, ticketing ... are an example of what the Mayor had in mind.

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Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente

by Thomas A. Kochan; Adrienne E. Eaton; Robert B. McKersie; Paul S. Adler



Kaiser Permanente is the largest

managed care organization in the

country. It also happens to have

the largest and most complex

labor-management partnership

ever created in the United States.

This book tells the story of that

partnership-how it started, how it

grew, who made it happen, and

the lessons to be learned from its

successes and complications.

With twenty-seven unions and

an organization as complex as

8.6-million-member Kaiser

Permanente, establishing the

partnership was not a simple

task and maintaining it has

proven to be extraordinarily

challenging.





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