The Fundamentals of Labor-Management Partnerships (LMPs)

With Jim Pruitt, Vice President, LMP and Labor Relations, Kaiser Permanente

Date and Time

February 26th, 7pm Eastern Time

Webinar Program Description

This program focuses on efforts within the US to foster closer relationships between employers and unions. It looks at some of the early history of this type of approach and its controversies as well as some current examples.

LMP’s have existed in some form since the post-Civil War era both between corporations and unions and in concert with government.  This  program will highlight controversies and successes and will ask the question why LMPs are not more common. It will proffer two interrelated reasons: 1.) There are constituencies in both labor and management who prefer a more traditional adversarial approach to labor-management relations and it is important to note that that approach is not without merit.  2.) LMPs can become overly-complex

Learning Objectives

To understand the basic requirements of an LMP.

To understand reasons why they sometimes fail.

To understand the benefit of LMPs to employers, unions, customers and society.

Location

Zoom link will be provided by email.

Cost

No Cost

Presenter

Presenter Biography

Jim Pruitt has a Masters of Human Resources and Labor Relations from Michigan State University (1974). Mr. Pruitt has worked in labor relations at Kaiser Permanente for fifty years and has negotiated hundreds of labor contracts and helped build a Labor Management Partnership. Mr. Pruitt’s interest is in labor history. Mr. Pruitt has written articles in HR/LR publications and elsewhere on topics as varied as the Card Check process, the Wobblies, and the concept of different generations in the workplace, and other topics.

Mr. Pruitt is also active in the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), serving as the 2024-25 President. As president, Mr. Pruitt’s interests are to build LERA membership and funding.