Week Two Discussion Block 2

Reply to Ken

Week Two Discussion Block 2

Contains unread posts

Ken Gray posted Feb 9, 2022 12:33 PM

Collective bargaining is the process in which the persons working through their unions negotiate agreements with their managers to find out their employment terms, such as profits, pay, job health, leave, safety policies, methods of balancing work, among terms. This process involves two principal parties: the employer and the labor union (Keune, 2021). In these discussions, employees gather together in their Union to negotiate terms in their employment agreements with their employer. A collective bargaining unit represents the labor union (Keune, 2021). The labor union comprises the union officials and the labor union lawyer, who creates a union to protect their rights.

The employer is the management representative; for example, they can be the lawyer of the company or the human resource. Unions and management employ collective bargaining to settle disputes and complaints, safeguard working conditions and jobs, preserve worker rights, and negotiate agreements, wages, and benefits. The employer plays a vital role in the collective bargaining process of answering the notice within a given time and agrees to meet the Union for negotiations (Pedersini, 2019). Together with the employer, the union representatives then meet and discuss the suggestion. The Union hopes to oblige the employer to reasonably comply with their demands (Pedersini, 2019). Thus the organizational lawyer or the human resource takes the lead on the discussions on salaries, hours, working situations, and profits are depending on whether the organization is private or public .

On the other hand, the labor union officials are the official elected members of the Union like National Office personnel and Stewards represent it on specific issues and representative matters. They are organizational employees whose work is to represent and defend the interests of their fellow workers as labor union members and officials. The labor union lawyer is employed by a union to represent it in linking with its lawful matters and is responsible for making advice to leaders of the Union to represent individual union members in proceedings arbitration (Pedersini, 2019). Besides, the labor unions may organize strikes if negotiations do not end in a contract.

The "right person" selection may be beneficial in the collective bargaining process. Choosing the right employee will aid in making intelligent discussions on salaries, hours, working situations, and profits and creating good relationships between them and the workers to generate a strong bond, thus contributing to the successful working of the organization (Chanin, 2021). Selecting the right employer and the labor union will enhance team building and morale between the parties. Things prosper when parties work together toward a common goal or objective. Bringing in robust team players contributes to the organizational culture, like bringing in the wrong person will disturb the problem-solving process (Chanin, 2021). For instance, replacing a wicked hire shortly after they start working with you can make the present participants feel disturbed, leading to lower production. Therefore selecting the right employer and the union representatives will enable them to better determine their employment terms, making the collective bargaining process more successful.

References

Chanin, J. (2021). Civil Rights, Labor Conflict, and Integration: New Orleans Educators' Struggle for Collective Bargaining 1965-1974. Labor Studies Journal, 46(3), 286-317.

Keune, M. (2021). Inequality between capital and labor and among wage-earners: the role of collective bargaining and trade unions. Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 27(1), 29-46.

Pedersini, R. (2019). International organizations and the role of collective bargaining. Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 25(2), 181-203.