Chapter 14

1. Chapter 14 LABOR MANAGEMENT RELATIONS

2. Management Options in Labor Relations • Solve labor related problems as they occur • Treat employees fairly; and • Let employees find ways to solve their labor-related problems.

3. Why do employees form and join unions? • Collective bargaining with the employer. • Self-preservation and protection • To belong to a group that will help them secure entitlements provided by law; • Protect themselves from human rights abuse of employers.

4. Types of Labor Unions • Craft or trade unions (workers engaged in particular trade) • Industrial union (employed)

5. ORGANIZING A UNION STEPS: • Employee/union contact • Initial organizational meeting • Formation of in-house organizing committee • Election and voting preparation • Contract negotiations

6. ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS OF UNIONS • Local labor union • Independent union • National union

7. LABOR LEGISLATION COVER SPECIFIC CONCERNS • Pre-employment • Human resource development • Condition of employment • Health, safety, social welfare benefits • Labor relations • Post employment

8. LABOR LEGISLATION PROVISIONS • Policy and definitions • NLRC • Bureau of Labor Relations • Labor organization • coverage • Unfair labor practice • Collective bargaining and administration agreement • A grievance machinery and voluntary arbitration • Strikes and lockouts and foreign involvement in trade union • Special provision

9. Collective Bargaining The negotiation, administration, and interpretation of a written agreement between labor and the management that cover a specific time frame PROCESS: 1. Negotiating a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) 2. Administering the CBA

10. NEGOTIATING Part of collective bargaining wherein both sides attempt to make each other agree to certain terms and conditions of employment STEPS: 1. Preparing for collective bargaining. 2. Establishing a bargaining agenda 3. Choosing a bargaining strategy.

11. NEGOTIATING STEPS: • Preparing for collective bargaining. • Collective bargaining experience • Temperament • Sense of humor • Approachability for off-the-record discussion • Honesty and the reliability of his or her word 2. Establishing a bargaining agenda • Wages • Hours of work • Other terms and conditions of employment 3. Choosing a bargaining strategy.

12. TYPES OF BARGAINING STRATEGIES • Distribution bargaining • Adapt confrontational attitudes • Integrative bargaining • Agrees to a solution • No loser in this strategy • Concession bargaining • Freedom in changing work rules

13. PRESSURES USED IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING • Strike • Economic strike • Jurisdictional strike • Wildcat strike • Pickets • Recognition picketing • Informational picketing • Product or consumer picketing • Boycotts • Primary boycott • Secondary boycott

14. PRESSURES USED BY THE EMPLOYER • Lockouts • To force union stop harassing the employer • Accept conditions set by management • Prevent work slowdowns • Prevent damage to property • Prevent violence in the premises • Strikebreakers • People are hired to replace strikers • Employer’s association

15. ALTERNATIVES TO PRESSURE TACTICS • Mediation • Fact-finding • Arbitration What are the Contents of CBA?

16. ADMINISTERING CBA • Information dissemination • Contract implementation • Contract interpretation and grievance resolution • Monitoring

17. Thank You Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.