Thursday, April 23

• Welcome back! • Please submit your timeline activity on the

front table, if you did not do so yesterday. Thank you!

• Bellringer:–Draw a Venn diagram comparing and

contrasting mediation and arbitration. Provide at least five items in your chart.

Labor and management• If collective bargaining doesn’t work, labor may strike• It comes with risks …• … but it is very effective• Compromise can be reached through– Mediation: a settlement technique in which a neutral

mediatory meets with each side to try to find a solution that both sides will accept

– Arbitration: a settlement technique in which a third party reviews the case and imposes a decision that is legally binding for both sides

Mediation vs. arbitration

Mediation Arbitration• A helper, like a counselor• May fail

• Both are methods of settling labor disputes• Both use a neutral third party

• A helper, like a judge• Will end in a decision• Binding: Parties must abide by the decision

Strikes and lockouts

• Strike: an organized work stoppage, initiated by workers, intended to force an employer to address union demands

• Lockout: a temporary withholding or denial of employment during a labor dispute, initiated by management, in order to enforce terms of employment upon a group of employees.

Strikes vs. lockouts

Strikes• Workers are NOT eligible for unemployment benefits• Workers can be replaced with permanent replacements

• Workers ARE eligible for unemployment benefits• Workers can only be replaced with temporary replacements

Both used when labor

and management can’t agree

Lockouts

Labor and management

• Collective bargaining: the process in which union and company representatives meet to negotiate a new labor contract– Benefits for workers– Benefits for owners

• Some topics covered in the contract include:– Wages and benefits– Working conditions– Job security

Labor dispute profiles• As you read the summaries and complete the handout,

consider: – What issues are under dispute? Do you see patterns?– What tactics do management and labor use in each case?

Why are they different?– In what ways did the parties work together?– In what ways did the parties work against each other?– How can disputes between management and labor best be

managed?– Does one side have to lose for the other to win?