INDR 294 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian National Railway, Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement, Collective Bargaining
15 Feb 2020
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Anyone who works at cn works for lr at one point. Collective bargaining is important for big companies. They have 53 collective agreements for 6000 employees. Important personality traits areintegrity, patience, detail oriented, humility, empathy, resilience, adaptable, humble. What do you want- be very specific. Unions at cn have been there since the late 1800s. Company is trying to have labour peace, longer contract- increase price of the contract. Our day to day items have travelled on train. Last strike was in 2009 by the train drivers. Either both sides leave happy or satisfied. You need to know who can make the call, who can make the big decisions. Individual workers don"t have much power against a huge owner. If you reject a deal your never gonna get offered more. Union reduced the trade pay from to so students had to come back to work. Best time to bargain is when the nickel mine is low.
