FORMER PANELS
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California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Panel of Neutrals (Arbitrations & Fact-finding)
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SEIU 1021, City & County of San Francisco CBA Panel
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Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission, Hearing Officer Panel
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Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission (ERCOM), Hearing Officer Panel
CURRENT PANELS
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UFCW, Northern California Employers Joint Pension Fund (Arbitration)
EXPERIENCE
2017 - 2019
Chief Labor Relations Officer
Bay Area Rapid Transit
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Negotiated BART’s Police Officers Association CBA
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Represented BART in numerous negotiations over working conditions, premiums pays and pension and health benefits
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Co-chaired Joint Administrative Committees for two BART Project Labor Agreements
2008 - 2016
Director of Employee Relations
City and County of San Francisco, Department of Human Resources
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Negotiated numerous Police, Fire, Misc. Safety and Craft MOUs
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Directed bargaining program whereby teams of City representatives negotiated over 30 MOUs simultaneously
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Co-negotiated major pension and retiree health Charter reform measures
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Advised City departments on labor contracts and labor laws
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Oversaw numerous grievance and binding interest arbitrations
1997 - 2007
Deputy City Attorney
San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, Labor Team
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Conducted scores of grievance and binding interest arbitrations
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Negotiated Project Labor Agreement for S.F. Unified School Dist.
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Helped negotiate Project Labor Agreement for City’s $6B Water System Improvement Program
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Acted as Chief Negotiator in scores of MOU and meet and confer negotiations
1991 - 1997
Associate Lawyer, Labor Team
Carroll, Burdick and McDonough LLP, San Francisco, CA
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Represented Unions and employees in numerous grievance arbitrations
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Litigated “home rule” and other municipal powers disputes in both trial and appellate courts
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Litigated “duty to bargain” cases in Superior Court
CERTIFICATION
University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law: J.D.
Order of the Coif Editor, Law Review
University of California, San Diego
B.A. History
AFFILIATIONS
Active Member of the California Bar
1990 - 1991
Judicial Clerk
United States District Court, Southern District, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - Present
Principal
Martin Gran, Arbitration and Mediation
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Arbitrated and mediated scores of labor disputes
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Currently focusing exclusively on mediating any and all labor disputes
EDUCATION
Steven Rosenberg Mediation
40-hour mediation training certification