Employer provided insurance and other benefits are always part of the bargaining process. Why? If you were bargaining for management’s side, how would you position the question of benefits, i.e. Distributive, integrative, or what? What is your strategic thinking in you answer? For example, should benefits decisions be allowed to ‘connect/tied-too’ the question of job security? (If you prefer, you may replace ‘management’s side’ with the phase, ‘labor’s side.’)