Clinton Partnerships Show Benefits of Public-Sector Collaboration
In: The public manager: the new bureaucrat, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 36-37
ISSN: 1061-7639
Over the past decade, labor-management relations have taken a sharp turn toward confrontation in several states and localities. Political ideologues have attempted to roll back collective bargaining rights in several states and cut back on public employee wages and benefits to balance budgets thrown into deficit. This has led to heated debates in such states as Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. In the midst of this swirling controversy, which has been part of a wider effort to dismantle the existing order of labor-management relations in America that has prevailed for decades, the public and policymakers have lost sight of the potential and real benefits of labor-management collaboration as a strategic device to improve delivery of goods and services in both the private and public sectors. Several lessons learned from the Clinton partnership program included how to make collaboration work effectively on a sustainable basis. Adapted from the source document.