Note:

The pre-registration is currently closed. If you would like to attend this event, please come to the NWPPA registration desk at the hotel, and our onsite coordinator will be happy to help you.

Who Should Attend:

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.

Stay Longer for This Additional Course:

Leadership Skills #5: Supervising Union Employees, December 6-8, 2017

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.
• Packaging offers, offer variations, final offer, and achieving agreement or implementation of the final offer.

Course Objectives:

• 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.

Course Instructor:

Course Schedule:

Registration will begin at 8 a.m. on day one, and the class will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on both days. Lunch, as well as morning and afternoon breaks, will be provided.

Course Location:

Northwest Public Power Association
9817 NE 54th Street, Suite 200
Vancouver, WA  98662
(360) 254-0109

Suggested Hotels:

Best Western (.5 miles from training location)
9420 NE Vancouver Mall Drive
Vancouver, WA  98662
(800) 528-1234

No rooms have been blocked for this meeting. Please call the hotel or go online to get the best available rate for sleeping rooms.

Heathman Lodge (1.2 miles from training location)
7801 NE Greenwood Drive
Vancouver, WA  98662
(360) 254-3100

No rooms have been blocked for this meeting. Please call the hotel and mention NWPPA to receive our corporate rate.

Course Fees:

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

The use of this seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.