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Public-sector collective bargaining brings its unique problems. Funds for compensation are expressly limited; the taxpayers may not choose to increase taxes, and government allocations are set a year in advance in many cases. In public education, a large portion of general government allocations for education is dedicated to pensions (in Michigan, about 27% of public school funding goes to pension). As an HR manager for a school, what would be your collective bargaining strategy for compensation with the teacher’s union, given that you are likely to have a maximum increase in your state allocation of 2%, and given your knowledge that teacher strikes are illegal?

Any sources used in the analysis should be cited following APA guidelines. Deductions will be taken for grammatical/punctuation/spelling errors. The following rubric will be used to evaluate the student’s case study analysis in the remaining modules.