HRMT 5190

Students will differentiate between employee and labour relations and the aspects of union management relations in the Canadian context. Students will choose approaches for effectively managing employee issues such as: discipline, non-culpable performance problems, addiction, disability and forms of harassment. Students will identify the unionization process and examine approaches to negotiating collective agreements. Students will examine effective dispute resolution in unionized and non-unionized environments. They will also apply collective agreement language in an organizational setting through a series of grievance cases covering all aspects of a collective agreement. Students will use data collection and grievance decisions to prepare proposals for negotiations using collective agreement language and will confront issues surrounding labour disruptions and the application of Labour Relations legislation. They will also consider the past and current state of unionization and future issues in Canadian unionization.