Reflection for Day Two

It was very interesting to have a trial rule setting session today. Both teams had excellent leaders and seemed very prepared. But the session did generate several questions for me. Do these sessions usually follows the rules of order? Do people other than the leader raise their hands to be recognized prior to speaking? We only had 9 people in our session and I can not imagine a CBA with 20 people. Our teacher team held a caucus to discuss place and food. Do teams hold lots of caucus meetings? How do they ever get things done? The whole stablizer and destablizer concept is very interesting. Our current union president appears to be a destablizer, one of the fist pounding my way or the highway types. I am wondering if the union president always attends the CBA meetings. Or can she be the manager in the other room (car salesman analogy). The main teacher on our team is very conservative and almost a stablizer type person. Would she get walked on without a destablizer? This class really makes me want to see our CBA meeting in person. But I do not want to be on the committee. I tried to take some notes today as the meeting progressed, (I was not the official note-taker), it was very hard to keep up and write everything down. I think that it would be best to tape the sessions. Another question that I have in regards to CBA is the info release. Each year about 1/2 way through the negotations, the union releases a report to all the members that list the following: What has tentatively been agreed upon and those ideas that are still under debate. They will list it in 3 sections: Top is TA, next what the union is trying to get, and the bottom what the board wants to get. This seems like an update type info release. Is this nomal? Or do most districts keep everything confidential until it is settled?
In the final group task today we read a report regarding a contract debate between a police department and a town. This was very interesting. The last line surprised me. The two sides finally agreed, but then the town council rejected the agreement. Was this a true story, or are these stories fiction? It made me wonder if that ever happens in school CBA meetings.