Well determined forms of wages, hours and benefits commonly found in public employment, typically, trying to create a balance between the employers ability to pay and the conditions within the relevant labor markets and the cost of living. So given all that, weve by the numbers, weve probably we counted it up. We had nearly 400 bargaining sessions. We dealt with almost 2,000 proposals from all of the unions taken together, and through the process from the middle of january through may 15, we were able to resolve all outstanding matters either by agreement or in some instances, by award. We had 26 tables. Seven of them were solved by negotiations, and through agreement, the remaining nine m. O. U. S were set by arbitration award. The generalization increases are covered in the controllers report. Roughly, its 11 over a 3year period. The just by way of explanation, the city and the unions did conduct extensive analysis on the cost of living. We compared public and private wage and benefi
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