MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The administration typically considers anything discussed at the bargaining table to be confidential. As such, the administration likely would not make available to the Legislature Local 2881 ’s presentation or any other information discussed at the table related to the policy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - What Principles Would Guide the Administration at the Bargaining Table to Seek Concessions From Bargaining Units? How Would the Administration Determine What Terms to Impose on Bargaining Units That Do Not Come to an Agreement?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - As such, whatever is ratified under a Unit 6 agreement will create a precedent that likely will be used as a model for successor agreements with the other six bargaining units expected to come to the table this ye ar.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - At the bargaining table, each page of a tentative agreement is signed by both parties and dated. From our experience reviewing MOUs, we have learned that an agreement often takes a few months —not years —to be finalized.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - The table reflects assumptions assumed by the administration in its estimate of the agreement ’s fiscal effect. b The agreements with Units 12 and 13 provide employees an additional eight hours of PLP 2025 leave effective June 1, 2027 on a one ‑time basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - The table reflects assumptions assumed by the administration in its estimate of the agreement ’s fiscal effect. cThe agreements with Units 12 and 13 provide employees an additional eight hours of PLP 2025 leave effective June 1, 2027 on a one ‑time basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - On April 5, 2024, our office was informed that CalHR and CAPS-UAW agreed to return to the bargaining table to negotiate a successor MOU and that the administration no longer intended to implement its LBFO.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - While we are not at the bargaining table and do not know what issues were discussed, we feel it was a missed opportunity for the parties to not find a solution that simplified the prefunding arrangement while also helping address the current budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - In the past, the state has (1)  imposed furloughs and negotiated PLP at the bargaining table, (2)  established furloughs as mandatory days when employees do not work (state offices would be closed one, two, or three “Furlough Fridays ” each month), and (3)  allowed employees to have “self-directed ” furlough days where employees have discretion to use furlough days as they would vacation or other leave benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

Collective Bargaining: Assessing Proposed Employee Compensation Increases

Mar 20, 2020 - At the bargaining table, the Governor is represented by the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR). Employees are organized into 21 bargaining units that are represented by unions at the bargaining table.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4206