Scenario
Your organization voted to unionize two years ago and is currently working under a collective bargaining agreement.
It is time to renegotiate the contract and there are some things, as the HR manager, you feel need to change in the union contract to protect the rights of your organization.
Some negotiation points you would like to see include:
1. In the contract now, employees are required to be provided with a cell phone for safety reasons. Since employees work in teams of three, the supervisor of each group should have a paid cell phone, but not all three workers.
2. Currently, workers receive a 2% pay wage yearly. You would like to change this and allow managers to give pay raises, but not to every employee, but the total pay increase for all workers would remain at 2%.
For example, one person may receive .5% while another receives 1.5, balancing out to a total of 2%.
3. You would like to see the requirement of safety glasses provided by the company changed.
Task Answer the following:
1. Are these issues mandatory, permissible or illegal bargaining topics?
2. What kinds of information might you need to be able to negotiate these items?