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	Collective bargaining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collective bargaining is the process of negotiation between representatives of a union and employers (represented by management) in respect of the terms and conditions of employment of employees, such as wages, hours of work, working conditions and grievance procedures, and about the rights and responsibilities of trade unions.
		Other writers have emphasised the conflict resolution aspects of collective bargaining, but in Britain the most important refinement was that made by Allan Flanders, who defined it as a process of rule-making, leading to joint regulation in industry.
		In Britain collective bargaining has been, and has been endorsed as, the dominant and most appropriate means of regulating workers' terms and conditions of employment, in line with ILO Convention No. 84 for many years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective_bargaining (512 words)

	Collective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collectives are also characterised by attempts to share and exercise political and social power and to make decisions on a consensus-driven and egalitarian basis.
		Collectives differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving (but can be that as well).
		Collective consciousness is a term created by French social theorist Émile Durkheim that describes how an entire community comes together to share similar values.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective (238 words)

	COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Collective bargaining is specifically an industrial relations mechanism or tool, and is an aspect of negotiation, applicapble to the employment relationship.
		While collective bargaining may take the form of haggling, ideally it should involve adjusting the respective positions of the parties in a way that is satisfactory to all, for reasons explained in the Paper entitled "Principles of Negotiation".
		Collective bargaining could also be defined as negotiations relating to terms of employment and conditions of work between an employer, a group of employers or an employers' organization on the one hand, and representative workers' organizations on the other, with a view to reaching agreement.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/actemp/papers/1998/srscbarg.htm (6191 words)

	Collective Bargaining
		Collective Bargaining is the process by which workers collectively negotiate agreements with their employers.
		Collective Bargaining takes place where workers are collectively organised in a trade union which negotiates on their behalf with a management which recognises the union's right to represent their menbers.
		Collective Bargaining in Ireland is conducted on a voluntary basis in that no side is obliged by law to enter into negotiations.
	www.ictu.ie /html/services/collbar.html (1218 words)

	AAUP-Statement on Collective Bargaining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		On the contrary, collective bargaining can be used to increase the effectiveness of those institutions by extending their areas of competence, defining their authority, and strengthening their voice in areas of shared authority and responsibility.
		Trustees and administrators are of course free publicly to question the desirability of collective bargaining, but they should not resort to litigation or other means having the purpose or effect of restraining or coercing the faculty in its choice of collective bargaining.
		Where a faculty chooses collective bargaining, the trustees and administration have a corresponding obligation to bargain in good faith with the faculty-selected representative and should not resort to litigation or any other means intended to avoid this obligation.
	www.aaup.org /statements/Redbook/Rbcb.htm (827 words)

	Collective Bargaining Summary
		Eligible employees in each of the bargaining units have the right to determine through a secret ballot election whether or not they wish to be represented for collective bargaining purposes.
		An employee organization that is certified as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit serves as the "sole and exclusive" bargaining agent for all employees in the unit and must represent them fairly without regard to union membership.
		Collective bargaining may not include negotiations relating to the right of an employee organization to receive service fees from nonmembers.
	www.usmd.edu /legislation/Collective_Bargaining/summary.html (1425 words)

	ECS StateNotes - Unions/Collective Bargaining - State Collective Bargaining Policies for Teachers
		Collective bargaining for teachers is a relatively new phenomenon.
		Collective bargaining spread across the nation and so did the power of teacher unions such as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA).
		Collective bargaining for teachers is a contentious issue that promises to grow increasingly complex as governance reform – changing who makes what decisions about public education – takes center stage.
	www.ecs.org /clearinghouse/37/48/3748.htm (1187 words)

	Collective bargaining - Wex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Collective bargaining consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment.
		Collective bargaining is governed by federal and state statutory laws, administrative agency regulations, and judicial decisions.
		The NLRA requires the employer to bargain with the appointed representative of its employees.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/collective_bargaining.html (659 words)

	Collective Bargaining at Community Colleges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Collective bargaining in California's community colleges is now over two decades old; for most of that time, I have been in the center of the storm, either as a faculty negotiator or as president of a faculty association.
		Collective bargaining in community colleges, whether in California or elsewhere, must therefore differ in some respects from bargaining at four-year colleges.
		Bargaining is still where the action is, and most faculty continue to look to the bargained contract for definition of their profession and their role in the academy.
	www.aaup.org /publications/Academe/1998/98nd/RUB_ND98.HTM (2235 words)

	American Nurses Association \| Workplace Issues: ANA: The Right Choice for Organizing and Collective Bargaining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Collective bargaining is a broad phrase that encompasses the process of negotiating and enforcing a lawfully binding contract between an employer and the bargaining unit composed of the group of employees who vote to be represented.
		Collective bargaining is the most effective way you and your nurse colleagues can protect patients from inadequate and unsafe care.
		Benefits of collective bargaining are embedded in having a mutually agreed upon, legally binding contract between your employer and your bargaining unit that gives nurses a voice in decision-making.
	www.nursingworld.org /dlwa/barg (1459 words)

	TITLE 27: CHAPTER10 - COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR FIRE FIGHTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The fire fighters in any city, town or county shall have the right to bargain collectively with their respective cities, towns or counties and to be represented by a bargaining agent in such collective bargaining as to wages, rates of pay, working conditions and all other terms and conditions of employment.
		In the event that the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract, any and all unresolved issues shall be submitted to arbitration.
		Any agreements actually negotiated between the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities either before, or within thirty (30) days after arbitration, shall constitute the collective bargaining contract governing fire fighters and said city, town or county for the period stated therein provided that term of such contract shall not exceed two (2) years.
	legisweb.state.wy.us /statutes/titles/title27/chapter10.htm (625 words)

	ERB - Collective Bargaining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The statute impliedly mandated collective bargaining both in the state government and in counties that were required to have civil service commissions.
		The board had two primary responsibilities: performing the quasi-judicial functions of the former Civil Service Commission and administering the collective bargaining law for the state and the units of local government that had opted to be covered by state law procedures.
		The 1995 Legislature revised bargaining procedures related to the length of negotiations before a mediator is appointed, declaration of an impasse, factfinding, strike, arbitration, and midterm bargaining.
	www.erb.state.or.us /histry1c.htm (1376 words)

	Code of Good Faith : Employment Relations Services
		Bargaining for a collective agreement (including a multi-party agreement) means all the interactions between the parties that relate to the bargaining.
		In order to promote orderly collective bargaining the parties must use their best endeavours to enter into an arrangement, preferably in writing, as soon as possible after the initiation of bargaining, that sets out a process for conducting the bargaining in an effective and an efficient manner.
		The duty of good faith requires a union and an employer bargaining for a collective agreement to conclude a collective agreement unless there is a genuine reason not to, based on reasonable grounds.
	www.ers.dol.govt.nz /goodfaith/code.html (1817 words)

	Office of Collective Bargaining
		The Office of Collective Bargaining ("OCB") is an impartial, tri-partite governmental agency authorized by Article 14 of the New York Civil Service Law ("Taylor Law").
		The BCB determines disputes concerning improper labor practices, arbitrability of grievances, scope of bargaining, and resolution of impasses in collective bargaining.
		The BOC determines appropriate bargaining units, certifies unions as the exclusive bargaining representative of appropriate units, and determines whether particular titles or employees are excluded from bargaining because they are managerial or confidential within the meaning of the NYCCBL.
	www.ocb-nyc.org (289 words)

	Collective Bargaining
		The bargaining unit includes faculty on academic or fiscal year appointment to the rank of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor with appointments that are half-time or greater.
		In addition, the bargaining unit shall include department chairpersons, divisional coordinators in the School of Education, program directors (of units listed in CBA 10.120), library faculty holding academic rank, replacement faculty, and otherwise eligible persons on terminal contract.
		Every person in the bargaining unit is at one and the same time (1) a teacher, (2) a member of the faculty of the University, and (3) a scholar.
	www.umt.edu /ufa/collective_bargaining2005.htm (6161 words)

	Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Collective Bargaining in Education assembles experts who often have strongly contrasting views but whose knowledge and perspectives are invaluable.
		Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated.
		Understanding collective bargaining in education and its impact on the day-to-day life of schools is critical to designing and implementing reforms that will successfully raise student achievement.
	gseweb.harvard.edu /hepg/collectivebargaining.html (686 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Collective pay bargaining on rise
		UK workers are increasingly using their right to collective bargaining when talking to employers about pay rises, Incomes Data Services (IDS) has found.
		Amicus said that the increase in group bargaining was the result of a lengthy campaign to make workers more aware of their rights.
		Since collective bargaining stopped in the industry in 1989, companies have put in place a various methods of reviewing pay that function well, the EEF said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4613469.stm (466 words)

	collective bargaining. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Its purpose may be either a discussion of the terms and conditions of employment (wages, work hours, job safety, or job security) or a consideration of the collective relations between both sides (the right to organize workers, recognition of a union, or a guarantee of no reprisals against the workers if a strike has occurred).
		The merits of collective bargaining have been argued by both opponents and proponents of the process; the former maintain that it deprives the worker of his individual liberty to dispose of his service, while the latter point out that without the union’s protection the worker is subject to the dictation of the employer.
		As an essential process in labor relations, collective bargaining was first developed in Great Britain in the 19th cent.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/collecti-b.html (287 words)

	collective bargaining on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		COLLECTIVE BARGAINING [collective bargaining] in labor relations, procedure whereby an employer or employers agree to discuss the conditions of work by bargaining with representatives of the employees, usually a labor union.
		Collective bargaining during 1986: pressures to curb costs remain.
		Collective bargaining in 1990: health care cost a common issue.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/collecti-b.asp (882 words)

	Collective Bargaining FAQs
		Employees shall have the right to self-organization; to form, join, or assist labor organizations; to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing; and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection....
		Determining who should be in the bargaining unit is often a complicated and time-consuming process, with both the employer and the labor organization trying to increase their strengths.
		Collective bargaining can be divided into three separate areas: the duty to meet and confer; the duty to bargain in good faith; and the duty to cover certain subjects.
	homepages.uhwo.hawaii.edu /clear/CB-FAQ.html (4104 words)

	Collective Bargaining in Central European Subsidiaries of Multinationals
		This survey complements the ILO survey on trade union experiences in collective bargaining which was conducted in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in 1995.
		ILO Survey on Trade Union Experiences in Collective Bargaining in Central Europe which was conducted in 1995 included 230 units of food and beverages industry, 92 in Bulgaria, 10 in Czech Republic, 52 in Hungary, 63 in Poland and 18 in Slovakia.
		Those units that were covered by both local and higher level bargaining reported that there was either a high decree of co-ordination (4 units) or a limited decree of co-ordination (3 units) of claims and other bargaining activities between the bargaining levels.
	www.itcilo.it /english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/seura/collecti.htm (6282 words)

	Oklahoma Municipal Employees Collective Bargaining Act
		Engage in other concerted activities for the purposes of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection insofar as any the activity is not prohibited by this act or any other law of this state.
		The collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the employer and the exclusive bargaining representative shall also include a provision for the checkoff of initiation fees and dues to the labor organization.
		An employee organization which is the majority choice of the bargaining unit employees voting in a valid election under this section shall be certified by the Board as the exclusive bargaining representative for the bargaining unit employees.
	www.ok-perb.state.ok.us /act_omecba.html (3752 words)

	Collective Bargaining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Since the Collective Bargaining field, as part of Employment Law generally, is so dynamic and subject literally to daily change, the Instructor will distribute additional materials either manually or by be posting on the Course Website.
		The collective bargaining process; rules and techniques of bargaining; the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS); EEO implications; binding arbitration; public sectors aspects; and subjects for collective bargaining (i.e., A Mandatory versus permissive @ subjects for bargaining).
		Arbitration and its role in the collective bargaining process; judicial intervention in the process and the function of the National Labor Relations Board in arbitration issues.
	www.law.duke.edu /curriculum/coursehomepages/fall2004/310_01 (971 words)

	Collective Bargaining : Employment Relations Service
		Collective agreements are agreements that cover two or more employees who are union members.
		If you are involved in bargaining for a collective agreement, you will need to check that you follow the correct procedures.
		It also means that employers and unions must conclude a collective agreement unless there is a genuine reason based on reasonable grounds not to conclude the agreement.
	www.ers.dol.govt.nz /bargaining (395 words)

	PSAC - Negotiations - Treasury Board , Tables 1, 2, 3 et 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		While the PSAC negotiating teams are working their way through the bargaining process, members will be gearing up for Solidarity Week 3 activities in June.
		Today, Treasury Board advised the PSAC that bargaining sessions scheduled to begin January 12 for Tables 1 and 5 and January 19 for Tables 2 and 3 have been postponed to February.
		Bargaining teams of all Tables have published bargaining updates for this round of negotiations and will publish many more.
	www.psac.com /bargaining/treasuryboard/index-e.cfm (1061 words)

	Convention (No. 154) concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Where, in pursuance of paragraph I of this Article, the term "collective bargaining" also includes negotiations with the workers' representatives referred to in that paragraph, appropriate measures shall be taken, wherever necessary, to ensure that the existence of these representatives is not used to undermine the position of the workers' organisations concerned.
		Measures taken by public authorities to encourage and promote the development of collective bargaining shall be the subject of prior consultation and, whenever possible, agreement between public authorities and employers' and workers' organisations.
		The measures taken with a view to promoting collective bargaining shall not be so conceived or applied as to hamper the freedom of collective bargaining.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu3/b/k_ilo154.htm (1245 words)

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