Course Description:

This 56 hours (ten-day) course is a mandatory course in the Applied Management Program. The course focuses on the theory and practice of labour relations in Canada.

Course Topics:

Students will examine the environmental influences that interact in union-management relations; appreciate the complex combination of power, reason, communications, politics, and attitudes that pervade the industrial relations processes; as well as explore significant bargaining issues and their economic implications.

Essential elements of the collective bargaining process, including preparation for negotiations; strategies at the bargaining table; principles of negotiation; bargaining in bad faith; understanding, interpreting, and administering the collective agreement; grievances, and the arbitration process, are all explored.