Episode 18: What Public Sector Agencies Need to Know to Prepare for Labor Strikes
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Alexander Volberding is a Labor Relations Attorney at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore. He has spent much of his 15+ year career working for and on behalf of public agencies in the State of California. We discuss labor strikes in the public sector and what agencies need to know in order to be prepared.
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