In this essay I will define collective bargaining and outline its various forms that are used within the EU. I will also critically examine the factors that will explain the variations in two or more countries.
According to Dale Yoder, “collective bargaining is the term used to describe a situation in which the essential conditions of employment are determined by bargaining process undertaken by representatives of a group of workers on the one hand and of one or more employers on the other.” Collective bargaining is –‘a relationship in which the representatives of employees and employers negotiate, consult and communicate in order to agree the procedural and substantive terms of employment’ (Dundon & Rollinson,2011)
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In this bargaining it involves zero-sum negotiations, this means that one side will win and the other will lose. For example if there is a dispute over wages within the company for the employees to get the money that they view they should be earning the employer has to lose some of its revenue. For this bargaining to happen management and unions must come together to knowing their offers or demands, target points, resistance points and settlement points. If there is a deal to be reached the management and the unions need their settlement points to overlap. If this doesn’t happen both parties will have to go back and adjust them so they can reach a fair agreement that both sides will be happy …show more content…
In this method of bargaining “labour bargains for wages as usual but goes a step further demanding equity in matters relating to work norms, employment levels, manning standards etc.” (http://www.shareyouressays.com/). This seemed to work in favour of the employees as unions would negotiate standards to ensure that the employee’s workload was not exceeded. For this reason employees try to get unions to be more lenient to using this form of bargaining in their opinion they gain more from it compared to productivity
According to Dale Yoder, “collective bargaining is the term used to describe a situation in which the essential conditions of employment are determined by bargaining process undertaken by representatives of a group of workers on the one hand and of one or more employers on the other.” Collective bargaining is –‘a relationship in which the representatives of employees and employers negotiate, consult and communicate in order to agree the procedural and substantive terms of employment’ (Dundon & Rollinson,2011)
Some of the forms of collective …show more content…
In this bargaining it involves zero-sum negotiations, this means that one side will win and the other will lose. For example if there is a dispute over wages within the company for the employees to get the money that they view they should be earning the employer has to lose some of its revenue. For this bargaining to happen management and unions must come together to knowing their offers or demands, target points, resistance points and settlement points. If there is a deal to be reached the management and the unions need their settlement points to overlap. If this doesn’t happen both parties will have to go back and adjust them so they can reach a fair agreement that both sides will be happy …show more content…
In this method of bargaining “labour bargains for wages as usual but goes a step further demanding equity in matters relating to work norms, employment levels, manning standards etc.” (http://www.shareyouressays.com/). This seemed to work in favour of the employees as unions would negotiate standards to ensure that the employee’s workload was not exceeded. For this reason employees try to get unions to be more lenient to using this form of bargaining in their opinion they gain more from it compared to productivity