R.L.B. employees question outsourcing jobs

Source: By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN, Sun Times (IL), August 22, 2009

 

A debate is brewing over whether or not the village should be outsourcing more work, specifically in the public works department.  The public works employees are members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 31 and they recently passed out a flier questioning the financial sense of privatizing some of their work, saying it jeopardizes high-quality services, offers an opportunity for corruption and leads to a loss of accountability.

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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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