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negotiations or employee-employer relationships in the
public sector, they used the words "collective negotiations."
One of the problems is whether you can make
contracts. Collective bargaining implies reaching an
agreement through contract. Public school systems, for
example, which are large employers but are not independent
a nd they cannot assure certain funds and as the law has
been held, we are not in a position to sign a contract.
Do you have any implications in this statement of the
useof the word "collective bargaining" that contracts
are involved?
DELEGATE BOTHE: The implications are, as I
believe they are defined in the National Labor Relations
Act. You are looking toward an agreement. When you are
speaking of a contract, I do not know whether you are
distinguishing a written contract from an agreement and
thisp-oposal does not purport to make any such distinction.
it is merely a question of the employer and the employee
sitting down .and talking it over in the hope that they
can reach an agreement satisfactory to both.
Whether that agreement involves a written