...Research Paper Trade union negotiating officials’ use and non-use of e no use on-u Acas conciliation in industrial disputes s Ref: 07/10 2010 Clare Ruhemann (Labour Research Department) For any further information on this study, or other aspects of the Acas Research and Evaluation programme, please telephone 020 7210 3673 or email research@acas.org.uk Acas research publications can be found at www.acas.org.uk/researchpapers ISBN 978-0-9565931-4-6 Trade union negotiating officials’ use and non-use of Acas conciliation in industrial disputes October 2010 Labour Research Department Disclaimer The views in this report are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Acas Council. Any errors or inaccuracies are the responsibility of the author alone. 2 Table of contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.................................................................................. 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................. 5 1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................... 7 1.1 Background..................................................................................7 1.2 Method........................................................................................7 Building a sample-frame of officials...........................................7 1.2.1 1.2.2 Development of hypotheses .......................................................
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...AKRAB BERSAMA SANDI MATEMATIKA Oleh : Fithri Angelia Permana, S.Si (WI LPMP NAD) Apakah matematika ilmu yang 'sulit'? Secara umum, semakin kompleks suatu fenomena, semakin kompleks pula alat (dalam hal ini jenis matematika) yang melalui berbagai perumusan (model matematikanya) diharapkan mampu untuk mendapatkan atau sekedar mendekati solusi eksak seakurat-akuratnya.Jadi tingkat kesulitan suatu jenis atau cabang matematika bukan disebabkan oleh jenis atau cabang matematika itu sendiri, tetapi disebabkan oleh sulit dan kompleksnya fenomena yang solusinya diusahakan dicari atau didekati oleh perumusan (model matematikanya) dengan menggunakan jenis atau cabang matematika tersebut. Sebaliknya berbagai fenomena fisik yg mudah di amati, misalnya jumlah penduduk di seluruh Indonesia, tak memerlukan jenis atau cabang matematika yang canggih. Kemampuan aritmatika sudah cukup untuk mencari solusi (jumlah penduduk) dengan keakuratan yang cukup tinggi.Dalam matematika sering digunakan simbol-simbol yang umum dikenal oleh matematikawan. Sering kali pengertian simbol ini tidak dijelaskan, karena dianggap maknanya telah diketahui. Hal ini kadang menyulitkan bagi mereka yang awam. Daftar berikut ini berisi banyak simbol beserta artinya. Matematika sebagai bahasa Di manakah letak semua konsep-konsep matematika, misalnya letak bilangan 1? Banyak para pakar matematika, misalnya para pakar Teori Model (lihat model matematika) yg juga mendalami filosofi di balik konsep-konsep matematika bersepakat...
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...Introduction This assignment is designed to quickly familiarize with the world of labour relations negotiations and labour relations in general by having you analyze what is going on in an actual labour relations negotiation. Your Mission You will watch and read the transcript of the film “Final Offer” and answer questions related to the film and labour relations. Resources you can use to carry out this assignment are as follows: 1. The video of “Final Offer” in the Final Offer Module. Please watch it and try to follow the action. You will have to know the names of the characters, their roles in the union or General Motors, and their points of view. You will be watching a labour negotiation take place before your eyes and this particular negotiation had great historical significance. You will be asked to follow the political moves being made inside the union and General Motors. NOTE: Profanity is liberally used throughout the film because the film is a documentary and this what they actually said. You will be watching a labour negotiation take place before your eyes and this particular negotiation had great historical significance. 2. Your textbook is a critical resource because you can use it to look up key terms and concepts. 3. A glossary of labour relations vocabulary has been provided on blackboard to help you understand what...
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...HRM 323 Entire Course (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com HRM 323 Week 1 Individual Assignment Human Resource Professional in Employee Relations HRM 323 Week 1 DQ 1 HRM 323 Week 1 DQ 2 HRM 323 Week 2 DQ 1 HRM 323 Week 2 DQ 2 HRM 323 Week 3 Team Assignment Management Negotiation HRM 323 Week 3 DQ 1 HRM 323 Week 3 DQ 2 HRM 323 Week 4 Individual Assignment Disciplinary Process HRM 323 Week 4 Team Assignment Union and Management HRM 323 Week 4 DQ 1 HRM 323 Week 4 DQ 2 HRM 323 Week 5 Individual Assignment Research and Reflect HRM 323 Week 5 Team Assignment Reflection of Experiences HRM 323 Final Exam Guide ------------------------------------------------------------ HRM 323 Final Exam Guide (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com HRM 323 Final Exam Instructions: Complete the answer key in MS Excel and upload to the course materials forum. Failure to use the MS Excel Answer Sheet will result in a Zero for the assignment. This exam is open book and there are no time constraints. Do not share this exam with others or work together. This is an individual assignment. 1. The five levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, in order from lowest to highest, are: a. Psychological, safety and security, acceptance, esteem, and self-actualization b. Physiological, safety and security, self-esteem, acceptance, and actualization c. Safety and security, psychological, acceptance, esteem, and...
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...Conflict Assessment Report BC 465: Negotiation and Conflict Management Xxxxxx xxxxxxx Jones International University March 30, 2010 Abstract This paper is an assessment of a conflict that took place between The Boeing Company and one of its unions, The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers in 2008. Conflict Assessment Report Profile The Boeing Company is the world's top aerospace company and the biggest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft. The company designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launching vehicles and advancing information and communication systems, and providing military and commercial airline support services (Boeing, 2010). Boeing has been a leader in the aerospace industry for over 100 years (Boeing, 2010). The business manufactures products such as the 737, 747, and 777 airplanes that are used in commercial airline travel. Boeing is a major service provider to commercial airlines, NASA, operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, and the United States government and its defense agencies. Boeing is organized into two divisions. The first division is Boeing Commercial Airplanes, which is comprised of commercial jetliners that service the globe. Boeing Commercial Airplanes is approximately 75 percent of the world fleet currently in service (Boeing, 2010). The second division is Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. The division...
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...point beyond which that party would prefer no settlement to settlement on unacceptable terms. 3. In labor negotiations, it is possible for both union and management negotiators to perceive they have been successful after completing contract negotiations. 4. Management would probably prefer centralized bargaining if it had three separate manufacturing facilities (bargaining units), each making the same product. 5. The proportion of an employer's total operating costs comprised of labor costs is termed the degree of labor intensiveness. 6. Bargaining power is more likely to be an important determinant of negotiated outcomes when the parties use a distributive bargaining approach or strategy. 7. Auto industry contract negotiations in 2007 represent an example of pattern bargaining. 8. Generally, high unemployment reduces the union's cost of disagreeing with management. 9. Smaller-sized (less than 10 individuals) bargaining teams are generally preferable to larger bargaining teams to enhance bargaining effectiveness. 10. "Voluntary" (also called permissive or non-mandatory) issues must be bargained over but agreement does not have to be reached. 11. Any failure to reach an agreement on contract language concerning a mandatory bargaining subject represents a violation of the duty to bargain in good faith. 12. Unions do not place upper limits on their bargaining ranges because they maintain, "nothing ventured,...
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...point beyond which that party would prefer no settlement to settlement on unacceptable terms. 3. In labor negotiations, it is possible for both union and management negotiators to perceive they have been successful after completing contract negotiations. 4. Management would probably prefer centralized bargaining if it had three separate manufacturing facilities (bargaining units), each making the same product. 5. The proportion of an employer's total operating costs comprised of labor costs is termed the degree of labor intensiveness. 6. Bargaining power is more likely to be an important determinant of negotiated outcomes when the parties use a distributive bargaining approach or strategy. 7. Auto industry contract negotiations in 2007 represent an example of pattern bargaining. 8. Generally, high unemployment reduces the union's cost of disagreeing with management. 9. Smaller-sized (less than 10 individuals) bargaining teams are generally preferable to larger bargaining teams to enhance bargaining effectiveness. 10. "Voluntary" (also called permissive or non-mandatory) issues must be bargained over but agreement does not have to be reached. 11. Any failure to reach an agreement on contract language concerning a mandatory bargaining subject represents a violation of the duty to bargain in good faith. 12. Unions do not place upper limits on their bargaining ranges because they maintain, "nothing ventured,...
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...mid October, 2009, between the managers of the Multinational Corporation (MNC) Kraft Foods (KFT) subsidiary in Argentina -Kraft Foods Argentina (KFTA)- and the Workers Internal Commission (WIC) of the firm s most important industrial plant in the country. The Argentinean Ministry of Labor (MLAB) convened the MC negotiation to settle an organizational conflict, regarding of opposing views about what preventive measures were adequate to cope the risks posed over the workers health by the 2009 global epidemic outbreak of swine influenza A(H1N1), that escalated out of the parties control. The contribution of our case study, on such specific type of labormanagement negotiation, is that it allows to gain a better understanding on how negotiators, confront the complexity of contextual circumstances and manage the process and, in addition, that it explores through the theoretical lens of the Turning Points (TP) framework -precipitants, departures and consequences- how they retrospectively judge that those essential elements interplayed along it. We consider that the KFTA case corroborates the aptitude of the TP framework for such kind of examination and that it allows to extract practical implications on how labor-management negotiations, although different from the international, can be managed in ways that may lead...
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...States and the Soviet Union. The discussions and negotiations on the various issues that directly or indirectly affected the crisis will be evaluated in detail in the discussion section; but it should primarily be said that the crisis period was very dense and it longed only 13 days. The negotiating styles, interests and communication efficiency of the parties that are concerned, were well enough to reach a wise agreement in a very short time relative to the conflict. All the parties’ interests, even the ones which demanded by the indirectly affected parties; such as Turkey, were taken into consideration; and a resolution that pleased almost every sides of the crisis. Avoiding a world war, which would possibly include nuclear weapons, is a fact that will show the succession of the negotiations during the crisis. Discussion There are several parties that concerned by the Cuban Missile Crisis directly or indirectly. The significant ones are the United States and the Soviet Union which were directly involved in the crisis and actively participated in the negotiations. Additionally, Cuba and Turkey concerned by the crisis because of their role of holding the missiles of the Soviet Union and the United States in their own soil; and Germany was indirectly concerned because of the possible attack of the USSR to Berlin (1). At the outbreak of the crisis, the most important and deterministic positions were the United States’ and the Soviet Union’s ones. The Soviet Union decided to start...
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...Labor Union at Lifeng Factory The employees at Lifeng factory would benefit immensely from joining a labor union because it would provide increased wages, benefits and job protection. Arthur describes labor unions as “organizations in which employees bond together to create a collective voice for negotiations with employers” (Arthur, n.d). A union serves as the negotiator between employees and employers which allows for a more speedy and efficient negotiation. A labor union would provide some amount of job security to the employees of the factory. These workers were not afforded sick days or vacation and feared taking a day off as this could result in termination. The workers at Lifeng were subjected to unpaid overtime, low wages, poor working conditions and zero benefits. A union would serve as a voice, therefore reducing the level of exploitation that they were experiencing. Employing the concept of collective bargaining in the Lifeng factory would be beneficial to both the employees and the employer. Collective bargaining refers to the method through which employees and employers negotiate in an effort to reach an amicable agreement to standardize working conditions. If collective bargaining was practiced within the Lifeng factory, the employees and Mr. Lam would have taken proactive measures to prevent the strike. However, Mr. Lam was not sensitive to his employees’ well-being and was more focused on meeting deadlines. He felt that he was treating them fairly which...
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...DEFINITION Trade unions are independent organisations that represent workers to their employers. If you join a trade union, you are joining a group that will negotiate workplace issues such as salary, hours of work, and other conditions, on your behalf. HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONS Trade unions began in the 1880s and were legally reserved for whites only in South Africa. Organizations such as the South African Confederation of Labour (SACoL) supported employment policies that favoured white workers. In 1917 the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) was the first trade union established to uplift black workers. In 1919 IWA merged with the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa (ICU), formed in 1919, in 1920. By the 1930s the South African...
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...com/BUS-405-WK-10-Quiz-9-Chapter-13-All-Possible-Questions-BUS4059.htm BUS 405 WK 10 Quiz 9 Chapter 13 - All Possible Questions TRUE/FALSE 1. A majority of teachers, firefighters, and police are represented by public-sector unions. 2. Favorable public-sector labor laws appear to be a significant factor encouraging growth in public-sector labor relations. 3. A major advantage of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) was that it established the framework for labor relations in the federal government by legislation, instead of by Executive Order. 4. If a governmental unit privatizes a government service to a private business, the private employer is likely to be covered under the Labor Management Relations Act. 5. If a subject of collective bargaining is permissible, both parties are required to negotiate in good faith, even though an agreement may not be reached. 6. The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) makes it an unfair labor practice for a party to refuse or fail to cooperate in impasse procedures. 7. Like in the private sector, the market economic system controls the price, quality, and availability of most services in the public sector. 8. Supervisors and managers have been granted the right to engage in collective bargaining in some states. 9. Union negotiators have more difficulty determining "who speaks for management" in public-sector bargaining as compared to private-sector negotiations. 10. The threat of a strike seems to encourage voluntary settlement...
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...com/BUS-405-WK-10-Quiz-9-Chapter-13-All-Possible-Questions-BUS4059.htm BUS 405 WK 10 Quiz 9 Chapter 13 - All Possible Questions TRUE/FALSE 1. A majority of teachers, firefighters, and police are represented by public-sector unions. 2. Favorable public-sector labor laws appear to be a significant factor encouraging growth in public-sector labor relations. 3. A major advantage of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) was that it established the framework for labor relations in the federal government by legislation, instead of by Executive Order. 4. If a governmental unit privatizes a government service to a private business, the private employer is likely to be covered under the Labor Management Relations Act. 5. If a subject of collective bargaining is permissible, both parties are required to negotiate in good faith, even though an agreement may not be reached. 6. The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) makes it an unfair labor practice for a party to refuse or fail to cooperate in impasse procedures. 7. Like in the private sector, the market economic system controls the price, quality, and availability of most services in the public sector. 8. Supervisors and managers have been granted the right to engage in collective bargaining in some states. 9. Union negotiators have more difficulty determining "who speaks for management" in public-sector bargaining as compared to private-sector negotiations. 10. The threat of a strike seems to encourage voluntary settlement...
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...Caribbean Dialogue July/August 1994 The Importance of Negotiation Preparedness: Reflections on the Caribbean Experience _________________________ Alister McIntyre Over the past three decades, the CARICOM countries have both individually, and as a group, accumulated considerable experience in regional and international negotiations. Within the region, the development of CARICOM and related institutions and arrangements have taken up a considerable amount of time of governments. Associated with that have been trade and economic agreements with major trading partners – European Union (EU), Canada and, more recently, the United States. Governments have also been involved in almost unending negotiations with the international financial institutions over their stabilisation and adjustment programmes. At different periods substantial attention has also been paid to global negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, such as GATT. Furthermore, some governments have been intensely involved in negotiations with international companies in the fields such as natural resources telecommunications. It is not possible in a single presentation to distill and synthesise this wide variety of experiences into a set of reflections. What I shall do is to concentrate on the governmental trade and economic negotiations with overseas countries and groups of countries, partly because we are on the threshold of new negotiations for entry in to NAFTA, and...
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...European Union and Turkey Introduction to European Union In this globalization era, the world seems to be borderless, especially in Europe. This further confirmed by the formation of the European Union, which serves as a binding substance between the countries contained in the European continent. European Union is a political and economic based union, established in 1993 after the ratification of Maastricht Treaty. The international organizations are working together to create economic and political stability among member states. During its development, the European Union may not run smoothly. The emergence of the economic problems that rocked the euro zone, then Spain and Cyprus emerged as a "burden" in these economic problems. Another emerging issue is productivity, border policy, and the exchange rate that makes this organization stability unsteady. Another issue that emerged is the exclusivity of the organization. Another issues arising from the exclusivity of membership expansion problem. Preceded by the six founding countries, EU has 28 members now, as Croatia joined on 1st July 2013. The membership number is certain to grow rapidly with the number of countries that volunteered to become a member. Regardless of all the problems it faces today, the EU is still believed to be an organization that brings positive impact to its members. States' desire to be able to join the candidate can not be separated from the success tale of the European Union, particularly in the fields...
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