Interest-Based Bargaining: Myths and Misconceptions

Usually described by successful practitioners as a better way to practice collective bargaining and labor relations, the interest-based approach to negotiations suffers from a variety of myths and misconceptions, the most prevalent being that "it doesn't work when it comes to money." The presenters, including a principal architect to the initiative introducing the concept to public education in California and the rest of the nation and a former deputy director of California's Public Employment Relations Board, correct these misconceptions with examples and analysis.