Advanced Labor Leadership: Collective Bargaining and Labor-Management Relations
Students will learn about the many aspects of collective bargaining including researching employers, costing out the contract, surveying members for contract priorities, preparing contract language and proposals, tools for effective negotiations, interest based bargaining benefits and hazards, recognizing surface bargaining, internal organizing, strike preparation and alternatives to strike, and ratifying the contract. An overview of labor-management relations during and after negotiations will also be covered. In the final weeks, students will participate in a collective bargaining role-play.