LEEL 369 Lecture 14: LEEL 369_14 March
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Negotiation workshop recap: onset: trust building, stating your position at the beginning: a giveaway, but can also set the tone, acknowledge the position, but ultimately put most energy toward where there"s a bottomline. Law: seeks to protect the right to belong to a union, including effective certification process. Labour code s. 12 - framed in broad language. Employers shall not in any manner seek to dominate, hinder or finance the formation or the activities of any association of employees, or to participate therein. Also, no association of employees shall belong to an association of employers: 13 - intimidation, threats; rarely used because it"s kinda included as hindering in s. 12. *it"s enough to feel as if threatened, so long as an intimidating environment has been created. Employer are anti-union, everyone knows; they"re allowed to make their anti-union views known. Employees filed request for certification; employer sent letters and held assemblies to contravene the employees" attempt to certify.