Nearly eight years after Palo Alto voters struck down a long-standing law that required contract disputes between the city and its public-safety unions to be settled via binding arbitration, the ...

In the aftermath of a critical police audit, Palo Alto’s elected leaders are hoping to revisit and revise a provision in police union contracts that creates a binding arbitration process for officers ...

Anne Arundel County voters could get the opportunity to decide whether to expand binding arbitration to all county employees in 2026. The Anne Arundel County Council introduced a charter amendment ...

Maryland’s general collective bargaining process doesn’t feature binding arbitration, and state employees cannot strike if negotiations reach an impasse. Negotiating parties can request a neutral ...

Policy shifts in Connecticut: Lawmakers approved more public school funding and a binding arbitration process for teacher terminations, but failed to pass a statewide cellphone ban. Middletown budget ...