Who Can Benefit:

General managers, operations managers, members of the employer bargaining team, and chief negotiators. We recommend that you send more than one team member to this class.

Course Overview:

You will gain valuable and practical knowledge about the three phases of collective bargaining:

• Preparation and defining the range/scope of negotiations
• Bargaining over issues (both non-economic and economic) and packaging of all remaining issues
• Package offers, offer variations, final offer, and achieving agreement or implementation of the final offer

Specific topics covered in the class include:

• Basic negotiation theory
• Concept of mutuality
• The role of the negotiator
• Grasping the concept of interest vs. positions
• How to preserve management's rights under the labor contract
• Collective bargaining responsibilities
• Understanding what constitutes unfair labor practice
• The duty to bargain in good faith
• The employer's duty to disclose information
• Management policies in bargaining
• Considerations to the make-up of the bargaining team and chief negotiator
• Checklists for collective bargaining preparations
• Defined negotiating ground rules
• Developing proposals and protection of the right to manage the business
• Contract language

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Class Location & Hotel Information

Heathman Lodge 
7801 NE Greenwood Drive
Vancouver, WA  98662
(888) 475-3100

Room rate: $151 for a single/double

Please book your room as soon as possible, but no later than December 23, 2015, to secure this rate. Mention that you are with NWPPA when booking your reservation.

For $15 each way per person, the hotel will pick you up or take you to the airport. Seven days prior to your arrival, contact the hotel by email (shuttle@heathmanlodge.com) and include your name, cell phone number, email address, and flight information (arrival and departure dates and times). You can make arrival and departure reservations in one email. You will receive an email confirmation of your shuttle reservation. Taxi rides are approximately $40 each way.

This program has been submitted for 14 (general) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.