Public Employee Labor Management Partnerships Saving Money, Time and Jobs

Some of the examples cited include:

• The Federal Aviation Administration and National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) worked together to successfully roll out new technology at 17 of 20 air traffic control centers, saving millions of dollars in software development costs.
• The city of Phoenix worked with a coalition of unions to create an Innovation and Efficiency Task Force, which has saved the city nearly $60 million annually since it began in 2009.
• The Naval Sea Systems Command and AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department implemented a system for improving productivity that proved successful enough at reducing inefficiencies that it was expanded to all four shipyards.
• The state of Michigan and the UAW employed “lean techniques” to reduce lobby wait times, from three hours to 30 minutes, for social services clients.
• The Ohio State University partnered with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) to encourage employee participation in a wellness program, which led to a quadrupling of union member participation.

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This has been reposted from the AFL-CIO.