ANALYSIS: Labor Negotiators Say 2020 Didn’t Faze Them So Easily

Employers weathered the challenges of 2020 and bargained with unions about as successfully as they thought they would—and sometimes even better, based on results from a Bloomberg Law survey of 72 organizations that negotiated at least one union contract last year.

For the first time in the 35-year history of the Employer Bargaining Objectives survey, labor relations professionals were asked to take stock of collective bargaining sessions that their organizations had completed in the previous year, rather than make predictions about a contract up for renewal in the year ahead.

As it turns out, 2020 was a brutally apt year ...