PSHRA is excited to host Successful Union Bargaining: Putting Yourself in the Best Position
This presentation introduces participants to the fundamentals of collective bargaining through position-based negotiations. The course also explains the rights and responsibilities of management and unions in the State Public Sector collective bargaining process.
Key takeaways:
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- Understand management's role in labor relations issues
- Use the various processes of state collective bargaining
- Understand and be able to use tracking tools and ground rules to stay on task
- Identify/avoid unfair labor practices at the negotiation table
This course is approved for 2.75 SHRM credits. Code to be provided to attendees post-event.
Our Presenters:
Diana Moffat
Diana Moffat is a Labor Relations lawyer. She focuses exclusively on providing services to Oregon’s local governments. Diana has been providing labor relations assistance for over 25 years. Prior to that, she served as a Deputy District Attorney for the first 14 years of her career, specializing in drug offenses and homicide.
Diana is recognized statewide for her expertise at the bargaining table. She has bargained more than 300 Collective Bargaining Agreements, has represented public employers in the mandatory mediation process and has presented their cases to Interest Arbitration. Her labor practice includes drafting collective bargaining proposals, researching comparative wages and benefits, presenting all proposals and justifications at the bargaining table as chief spokesperson and assessing counter proposals.
Diana has assisted public entity employers in countless disciplinary investigations and proceedings, as well as contract interpretation issues and arbitrations.
Diana has presented cases to the Employment Relations Board in the form of Unfair Labor Practices and Unit Clarification matters. She is versed in Oregon labor law, ERB rules and regulations, FMLA, FLSA, OFLA, PECBA and Oregon statutory and case law.
She has appeared at countless statewide conferences to provide labor training to other lawyers, as well as to a wide variety of public sector management individuals.
Anyone who knows Diana, knows that her favorite motto is “preparation comes before success, even in the dictionary.”
In her spare time, you will find Diana on her property, out in the country, tending to her menagerie of rescue horses, llamas, goats, sheep, dogs and cats, not to mention the occasional pig or duck!
Mark Wolf
Mark is Local Government Law Group's newest partner. Mark’s practice focuses on labor and employment matters, including conducting labor and contract arbitrations, writing briefs, and bargaining union contracts. Mark is also well versed in public meetings and records laws, government ethics, and code enforcement.
Mark has defended, and prosecuted, unfair labor practices at the Oregon Employment Relations Board. He has successfully defending clients in termination grievances, including Oregon’s recently adopted arbitration reform for police conduct. Mark is well versed in the FLSA, OFLA/FMLA, and Paid Leave Oregon.
Mark graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2015, where he was a legal writing and research tutor and a managing editor for the Oregon Review of International Law. When not working, Mark, a native Oregonian, enjoys spending time with his wife, Ashley, and son, Drew.
