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Report of the Office of Inspector General:
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REVIEW OF THE CITY OF CHICA GO'S EXPIRED AND EXPIRING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING A GREEMENTS
May 2017
S66-IG- TJPUNE (866-448-4754) www.chiccjgoinspectoigciiercil.org
.Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N. Sedgwick StreeL Suite 200 Chicago. Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773) 478-7799 Fax: (773) 478-3949
May 31, 2017
To the Mayor, Members ofthe City Council, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, and the residents of the City of Chicago:
This year, the City and its unionized workforce will negotiate new collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). The terms and conditions of employment for over 90 percent of the more than 30,000 City workers, ranging from salary schedules and vacation policies to staffing rules and disciplinary procedures, will be on the table. Such an opportunity to reassess the existing agreements and to negotiate CBAs that reflect both the immense value of Chicago's unionized public servants and the fiscal realities confronting the City has not presented itself in a long while. Indeed, more than two-thirds of the current CBAs took effect nearly ten years ago, in July 2007. Given the intervening economic upheaval, as well as the technological advances and other operational changes that inevitably transpire across such a long stretch of time, the 2017 CBA negotiations constitute a crucial moment for the parties to address, in a creative and collaborative fashion, the myriad challenges and opportunities facing the City. To be sure, this is a complex and difficult project. Contract negotiations are largely adversarial by nature, with each side seeking the best deal for itself. Here, however, in the public sector, it is incumbent on both management and labor to acknowledge the presence of a third par...
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