From the archives: A proposal to end collective bargaining, on the ballot May 1, aims to spur police accountability in Texas’ second-largest city.
that with collective bargaining gone, the clause would be null and the contract would fully terminate. That disagreement, says the union, might be litigated in court.
Even if the contract does lapse, though, many of the policies Fix SAPD wants to change would actually remain in effect. Under, cops and firefighters have a baseline of employment protections. The statute specifies little about wages or benefits, but it includes both the third-party arbitration process and the unreformed 180-day rule. As with collective bargaining, the law must be enacted by local voters, which San Antonians did in 1947.
But for Fix SAPD, it’s all part of a plan. For one thing, they hope to eventually gather the roughly 80,000 signatures needed to put the law that creates the baseline protections on the ballot as well, potentially pulling the safety net from under San Antonio’s cops. And, even if that effort never pans out, there’s another path forward.
While collective bargaining mandates that the employer and union get together to hash out a contract, meet-and-confer merelyit. But, in reality, the two processes have worked similarly for Texas cops, with both leading to legally binding agreements. Even
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