1. Unions and Management
~What major issues are discussed in labor contract negotiations?
~How do unions and management reach a contract agreement?
~What negotiation tactics do unions and management use?

2. Labor Contract Issues 5 major issues negotiations between labor and management
Wages and Fringe Benefits
Amount of money that workers are paid
Non wage pay (sick days, health and life insurance, and others)
Working Conditions
Safe-work place

3. Job Security Union Security Seniority
Holding the privileges based on the number of years a worker has been employed by a firm
Union Security
Worker won’t have to worry job security when joining a union

4. Grievance Procedures
Both group will flow the correct steps when dealing with a dispute between the two

5. Contract Negotiations
~Collective Bargaining
-union and managements reps. Meet to discuss their goals and offer solutions and compromises.
~Mediation
-negotiators call in a neutral 3rd party, or mediator, to listen to both sides and suggest ways in which an agreement may be reached

6. Arbitration
Calls for assistance of a negotiator to arrive at a contract
Neutral 3rd party

7. Union Tactics Strike Picketing Boycotts Stoppage of work from labors
Informs that a strike is in process
Gain public support
Discourage non strikers
Boycotts
(Primary)- organized effort to stop purchases of a firm’s products
2nd – refusal to buy goods and services of the firm

8. Management Responses Replacement workers Lockouts Injunctions Scabs
(owners) Close company till negotiations are solved
Injunctions
Court order, to prohibit the dispatcher from striking
Taft-Hartley Acts