describe at least four (4) strategies the employer can take
during the collective bargaining process. Include how to
successfully manage deadlocks during the process. Explain what is
meant by “good faith” in regards to both the employer and the union
during collective agreement negotiations.
(TCO H) If the collective bargaining process is to be
successful, it is important that both sides come prepared to
bargain. This means that both management and labor must make plans
and develop a strategy before they even look across the table at
the other party. It is often this preparation that determines to
what extent one side gets its way more than the other side. It is
impossible to walk into negotiations without knowing the costs that
are potentially...
Collective bargaining is enshrined in ILO conventions that
provides for freedom of association and right to collective
bargaining.Article 4 of ILO Convention 98 states that Measures appropriate
to national conditions shall be taken, where necessary, to
encourage and promote the full development and utilisation of
machinery for voluntary negotiation between employers or employers'
organisations and workers' organisations, with a view to the
regulation of terms and conditions of employment by means of
collective agreements.The Task In your initial or first...
"In a very real sense, freedom of association is the foundation
of the collective bargaining process. There must also be legal
protection of the freedom of person to join a collective bargaining
entity - this is what freedom of association is all about" Do you
agree with the above quotation? Motivate your answer with reference
to the protection of freedom of association of employees.
Even in the absence of collective bargaining, workers do have
some bargaining power that allows them to receive wages higher than
their reservation wage. Each worker’s bargaining power depends both
on the nature of the job and on the economy-wide labor market
conditions.
(a) Compare the job of a delivery person to a computer network
administrator. Which of these jobs does a worker have more
bargaining power? Why?
(b) For any given job, how do labor market conditions (like high...
What is collective bargaining, and why is it valuable to
employees? What is the difference between a monopoly and a
monopsony? Give an example of each.