What are the three models of collective bargaining, and what happens under each model when there is an impasse?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

There are three models of collective bargaining: binding arbitration, meet and confer, and bargaining not required. Under the binding arbitration model, public employees are given the right to bargain with their employers. If there is an impasse, the matter is submitted to a neutral arbiter, who decides what the terms and conditions of the new collective-bargaining agreement will be.

The meet and confer model is rarely used, and grants very few rights to public employees. Police employees have the right to organize and to select their own bargaining representatives. However, if an impasse is reached, the only legal choices for employees are to accept the employer’s best offer, try to influence the offer through political tactics such as appeals for public support, or take some permissible job action.

States that follow the bargaining-not-required model have statutes that either do not require or do not allow collective bargaining by public employees. In most of these states, laws permitting public employees to engage in collective bargaining have not been passed.