Note:

The pre-registration is currently closed. If you would like to attend this event, please call NWPPA at 360-254-0109, and our staff will be happy to help you.

Who Should Attend:

General managers, labor relations managers, members of collective bargaining teams, HR professionals, labor relations professionals, and anyone who wants to truly understand negotiations from beginning to end.

Related Events:

Negotiations: From Start to Finish, May 11, 18, and 25, 2017

Negotiations: Preparing for Success, May 11, 2017

Negotiations Boot Camp, May 18, 2017

Course Overview:

In this final webinar of a three-part series, attendees will learn some best practices for avoiding common unfair labor practices (ULPs). The instructor will cover many of the issues involved with impasses, bundling/packaging, mediation challenges, end runs, and management team solidarity. This is the last webinar of the three-part series. By registering for all three webinars, you will receive a discount off the total registration fee.

Course Objectives:

During this webinar, you will learn:

• How to see impasse as opportunity
• Advantages to cutting the elephant into bite-sized hors d’oeuvres
• The need to maintain your quid pro quo balance
• The best time to use bundling/packaging
• How to survive mediation and aggressive mediators without selling your soul
• How to mitigate the union’s use of the end run
• Why it’s to everyone’s advantage to help the union sell the agreement and how to do it without making it look like the union sold out
• Why the toughest negotiations are always with your own side
• How to maintain solidarity among the management team during even the toughest and most prolonged negotiations

Course Instructor:

Bob Oberstein, Labor Relations Manager, Snohomish County PUD

Course Schedule:

The webinar will be held on May 25, 2017, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

How to Participate:

Instructions to log in will be sent before the session.

Course Fees:

To register for all three webinars and receive a discount, please go to Negotiations: From Start to Finish to register.

This program has been approved for 1.5 (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.