Collective bargaining is generally conducted through a trade union. Employees will pay the trade union a relatively small fee each month to be a member. In return, the trade union hires have a negotiating team to bargain on the employees…
When looking at the types of collective bargaining, it is important to distinguish it between a collective agreement. There are also different types of collective agreements, but these refer to the outcome of collective bargaining. For instance, there are single…
Contract Negotiation Process Negotiating a contract requires identifying the subjects to be addressed by the agreement. Then, each party prepares its preferred position on each subject. Then the process of comparing those positions begins. Often, dollars are attached to contract…
Conflict-Resolution Techniques. Some amount of conflict will always be present in the workplace. The fact that it exists is not necessarily an unhealthy thing. When it is resolved quickly and effectively, it can lead to personal and professional growth. In…
Either management or union can initiate retaliatory action in the workplace as a response to the other party’s failure to agree at the bargaining table. Industrial actions are designed to get the attention of the opposite party. Unfair labor practices…
The progressive discipline model is one that has been used in American workplaces for more than a century. It is written into many, if not most, union contracts as a requirement to assure management treats its members appropriately when problems…
NLRB Decision & Order: Graphic Communications Conference/International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 735‒S and Bemis Company, Inc. Case 04‒CB‒215127 (June 5, 2020), 369 NLRB No. 97 “We find that Stasko engaged in protected activity when he participated in the…
Also called the Landrum-Griffin Act, this law outlines procedures for redressing internal union problems, protects the rights of union members from corrupt or discriminatory labor unions, and applies to all labor organizations. Specific requirements include the following: • Unions must…