Labor Contract Negotiation The United Chemical And...

Labor Contract Negotiation For this project, I was a member on the union team and we were to bargain for a new labor contract for our union, the United Chemical and Plastic Workers (UCPW), with our employer, the Harper Container Corporation (HCC). I participated in Week 9 as our Chief negotiator. In the initial weeks of this course, for both teams, we choose our Chief negotiators for each week as well as establish ground rules for negotiating. The ground rules are rules set in place that keep negotiators from straying from the important matters at hand. Starting in week 5, both teams formed their initial demands. From week 6 to week 10, we took part in discussing our demands, finalizing them and posting them in the Negotiation Room. Each union member participated as a Chief negotiator and performed negotiations with the Chief negotiator from the management team. I have come to realize through the weeks that negotiations are tough, no matter if they are through online or in person, for a mock negotiation project or for a real labor negotiation. There is a lot that goes into the bargaining process and many things that need planning even before the negotiations begin. In the beginning, I feel that we did not have enough direction on what we were supposed to do or how to do it, given our lack of experience with labor relations. However, as the weeks went on and through communication and asking questions and research on our own, I think we all started to learn the process andShow MoreRelatedCapital Mortgage Insurance Corporation (a)31612 Words   |  127 PagesLewicki−Barry−Saunders: Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases, Fifth Edition Cases 1. 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