OCB Press Release
For immediate release
california
Community colleges better equiPped for collective bargaining
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA (October 25, 2004)
– The Community College League of
California (CCLC) announced today the completion of the Online Collective
Bargaining (OCB) database system project that will help college districts
with employee collective bargaining. Jointly developed with Helm Solutions
Group, Inc. (HSG), this system provides management negotiators at 72
California community college districts with a powerful new tool for
collective bargaining with unions.
OCB enables district managers to easily
share all collective bargaining documents, such as agreements, job
descriptions, and salary schedules, via a fully searchable, secure
Internet-browser solution. California’s database currently contains 4,000+
documents.
OCB improves communications with features
like an online surveys system, discussion forums, personal messaging
facility, a white-pages directory feature, and a time recording and
reporting feature for mandated cost reimbursement.
CCLC set out to solve a long-standing
problem of the college districts – sharing critical documents and
information across a geographically and organizationally diverse group of
people and OCB is the solution.
“During San Joaquin Delta College
negotiations with the faculty, the database was very helpful because we were
able to download copies of the 16 comparable institutions the contract uses
as a benchmark”, reports Francisco M. Arce, Assistant Superintendent,
Vice President of Instruction, San Joaquin Delta College
“I find the online collective bargaining
database extremely useful and a huge time-saving device. Prior to having
this tool, our staff had to make numerous calls to districts in order to ask
relatively simple questions in preparation for negotiations. Now we find
that with a few clicks of the mouse, the information can be retrieved in a
few minutes, using just one HR staff member. Also, it's assuring to know
that the information is current and accurate. We go into negotiations armed
with up-to-date data that helps defend our position(s) and makes the
District team prepared and ready with comparative information from other
Districts”, said Wade A. Frary Vice President, Human Resources,
Mt. San Antonio College
Under HSG’s unique joint development
agreement, CCLC has given the community college districts of California a
powerful tool to facilitate their collective bargaining and CCLC
participates in profit-sharing as OCB is rolled out nationwide. Success
stories of OCB are available at www.helmsolutions.com/cbdatabase.
Interested organizations should contact HSG to learn more about this
exciting offering.
Community College League of
California, Inc. (www.ccleague.org)
is a non-profit organization created by and for the California Community
College Districts. Among the services provided to
the colleges and districts are legislative, shared purchasing, and special
projects such as OCB.
Helm Solutions Group, Inc. (www.helmsolutions.com)
offers enterprise class systems development knowledge and expertise that
enables HSG to provide subject matter experts with “SWAT teams” of talented
developers to facilitate capitalizing
on time sensitive market opportunities.
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Media Contacts:
Community College League of
California
Helm Solutions Group, Inc.
Contact: Ray
Giles
Contact:
Jon Foster
+1-916-444-8641
+1-916-933-2454
raygiles@ccleague.org
press@helmsolutions.com
Helm
Solutions Group
