About Me

I have over two decades of experience advising public-sector labor negotiators and testifying before interest arbitrators.

I have particular experience in the arcane details of public safety contracts in Massachusetts and mass transit unions.

With a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics, I have the number-crunching expertise for the most delicate statistical analysis.

I have taught economics to undergraduates, tutored mathematics, and spent uncountable hours delivering expert witness testimony.

 

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Services Provided

The depth of my involvement is always tailored to the client’s needs.  For some I have a long-term relationship and I provide all economic analysis for all negotiations, starting with an encyclopedic knowledge of existing, historic and potential contract provisions, and continuing through development and presentation of new contract proposals, response to union proposals, and evaluation of both individual proposals and the contracts as a whole.  I also provide strategic advice on negotiating with multiple unions simultaneously. 

On the other end of the spectrum I have worked for clients on short-term projects with very well-defined goals. 

Between those extremes I can adapt to any client’s needs for economic analysis. 

I provide a complete compensation analysis, covering the comparators, each element of compensation, and a clear summary.

I provide a complete cost analysis of each proposal, identifying the data, the assumptions, and conclude with an summary cost of the contract as a whole.

I provide the appropriate economic context needed to evaluate labor contracts.