Board vs. Teachers

Most of my career I have been a teacher. During one of my last years as a teacher, I was on the teachers' negotiating team and was trained in interest-based bargaining. I had never been on a negotiating team before, but I liked this process because it felt friendlier, and we needed friendlier after a strike had taken place at the end of the previous contract negotiations. I'm a pretty honest up front person, and it bothered me when the attorney who spoke to us at the last class shared that he had prepared one salary comparison for the teachers and a different comparison for the board. It just doesn't feel quite honest. It's just really hard for me to change my thinking to the administration point of view.