Elizabeth Ford

Summary

In New York there are several areas of difference in the treatment of police and non-police collective bargaining. They include the following:

  • Fragmentation. New York City has its own, separate system for regulating collective bargaining, which is not included in this analysis.
  • Impasse Process. When an impasse in bargaining is reached, police have access to binding interest arbitration. Non-police do not.
  • Disciplinary Decisions. New York law provides that decisions on the discipline of police employee are excluded from bargaining. The same is not true for non-police employees.
  • Investigation and Oversight. The process for imposing discipline, and surveillance are more often frequently challenged and found to be mandatory subjects of bargaining in the police context.
  • Subcontracting and Skimming. Reassignment of duties and subcontracting cases are internally inconsistent providing no discernable patterns.
  • Duties. PERB is slightly more likely to find a change of duties to be mandatorily bargainable for police than non-police.

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