EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; NEGOTIATIONS; INDICIA OF SURFACE OR BAD FAITH BARGAINING; TOTALITY OF CIRCUMSTANCES – Failure to Explain Proposal

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City’s simultaneous demand for ten percent reduction in “total employee compensation,” coupled with its refusal to engage in substantive discussion of “retirement reform,” where retirement benefits was one component of “total employee compensation,” made it impossible for union to determine the full magnitude of concessions being demanded.