Meet and Confer, Explained

Meet and Confer, Explained

For over a year, the Durham Association of Educators (DAE) has been pushing for a so-called meet and confer policy, seeking to give workers more of a role in district-wide decisions. The DAE has argued that a lack of worker input on policy contributed to the district’s recent successive pay and transit crises.North Carolina law bans public sector collective bargaining, but the DAE has pitched “meet and confer” as a way for workers to give input.…