Union Organizing And Collective Bargaining

a. There are different roles a supervisor has in labor matters, such as union organizing, negotiations and contract administration, and collective bargaining. A union organizer has the role of an appointed official of the union to basically recruit employees into the system. There are five steps to organizing drives and they are building an organizing committee, adopt an issues program, sign-up majority on union cards, win a union election, and lastly, negotiate a contract for covering wages and how to disputes will be handled.
Another labor matters a supervisor can go through are negotiations with their employees. They construct a financial model so that the negotiators can accurately compute the costs associated with the company's objectives. They anticipate bargaining issues regarding the non-economic terms of the contract and evaluate whether …show more content…
When you negotiated collective bargaining agreements so often you can come across company representatives who make no effort to develop, and sometimes resisted, any relationship, even on a professional level, with the union leader or business agent that represented his/her employees. Perhaps they resented the union's presence or personally disliked the union representatives. No matter the reason, what they failed to realize was that the union was not going away and that the company would only benefit from a professional relationship between the parties.
In conclusion, a supervisor has many different and broad roles when it comes to labor matters. Organizing drives, negotiations, contract administration, and collecting bargaining is just the mere surface when it comes to roles like this. Either way, it’s their responsibility as a supervisor to cover these matters and they are very important