Bargaining 

What is Bargaining?

Ann-Marie Sierra

UTSC Bargaining Chair

     Collective bargaining is the process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine their terms of employment, including pay, benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work and family, and more. Collective bargaining is a way to solve workplace problems. It is also the best means for raising wages in America. Indeed, through collective bargaining, working people in unions have higher wages, better benefits and safer workplaces. Click the link below for to read the answers to frequently asked questions.


Email Ann-Marie with any additional questions you may have at bargainingchair@unitedteacherssc.org.