Management Programs

Union-management partnerships can be an important and effective vehicle for designing and implementing improvements in the workplace and for building relationships with suppliers, customers, and the community. This workshop will help you to assess the potential benefits of labor-management collaboration to your own organization and will provide you with a set of practical tools and processes that you can apply in your work environment. You will also learn:

• A process of initiating or improving your own partnership efforts
• How to get started in the process
• Contemporary review of successful outcomes achieved through collaboration in a variety of industries

Key Topics

• The basics
• Why partner?
• How the labor-management relationship fits into organizational change and survival
• What do basic labor-management partnership activities look like?
• Partnership possibilities
• Vehicle/equipment purchases
• Work redesign
• Supplier-customer relationships
• Health and safety committees
• Training and apprenticeship programs
• School-to-work programs
• Labor relations systems
• Getting started
• Laying the foundation for an effective labor-management relationship
• Planning for the future
• Designing appropriate strategies for labor-management collaboration
• Improving labor-management effectiveness
• What makes partnerships work?
• Why do partnerships fail?
• Assessing your own efforts

Who Will Benefit

Labor relations and human resource professionals, attorneys, and operations managers involved in the administration or negotiation of collective bargaining agreements

Instructors

Sally Klingel, Robert Pearson