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    Collective Bargaining

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    persons may organize for a lawful purpose‚ but to say that all persons whom the law and court decisions do not allow to form or join organizations for purposes of collective bargaining. There are many persons whom the law and court decisions do not allow to form or join labor organizations for purposes of collective bargaining. It is Consistent with the Constitutional mandate‚ Article 243 of the Code allows “all persons employed in commercial‚ industrial and agricultural enterprises and in religious

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    Distributive Bargaining

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    1 NEGOTIATION SKILLS S2‚ 2012 WEEK 2: DISTRIBUTIVE BARGAINING 2 Today’s lecture: Distributive bargaining • • • • • The basic negotiation strategies Distributive bargaining scenarios Fundamentals of distributive bargaining Tasks to focus on Distributive tactics • Results from conflict management styles survey 3 Choosing a negotiation strategy • Distributive • Conflicting goals‚ fixed pie (“zerosum game”)‚ task is to claim value and maximize personal gains • Shared goals

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    Bargaining Structure

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    1. Bargaining structure – the resulting organizational structure for the collective bargaining process. 2. Pattern bargaining – the union bargains exclusively with that target company until an agreement is reached. 3. Bargaining power – a popular conceptualization is “the ability to secure another’s agreement on one’s own terms.” 4. Bargaining environment – is the diverse set of external influences on labor and management as they sit at a bargaining table negotiating a contract. 5

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    INTRODUCTION: The doctrine of precedent‚ or stare decisis‚ lies at the heart of the English legal system. The doctrine refers to the fact that within the hierarchical structure of the English courts‚ a decision of a higher court will be binding on a court lower that is in that hierarchy. In general terms this means that when judges try cases they will check to see if a similar situation has come before a court previously. If the precedent was set by a court of equal or higher status to the court

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    Judicial Independence

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    JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE INTRODUCTION An independent judiciary is necessary for a free society and a constituent democracy. It ensures the rule of law and realization of human rights and also prosperity and stability of the society. The independence of the judiciary is normally assures through the Constitution but it may also be assured through legislations‚ conventions and other suitable norms and practices. Following the constitution of United States‚ almost all constitutions lay down at least the

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    Bargaining With The Devil

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    BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL When to Negotiate‚ When to Fight ROBERT MNOOKIN ROBERT MNOOKIN is professor of law at Harvard Law School‚ the director of the Harvard Negotiation Research project and chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Dr. Mnookin has taught several workshops on negotiation skills for corporations‚ government agencies and law firms. He is the author of nine books including Beyond Winning‚ Negotiating on Behalf of Others and Barriers to Conflict Resolution

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    Mock Bargaining

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    Mock Collective Bargaining Exercise Michael De Jesus‚ Dave Zygiel‚ Jackie Moreland‚ Sarah Pinheiro‚ and Anne Rogers Eastern Nazarene College Industrial Relations BAM 58 August 7th‚ 2013 United Metal Products Workers Union Good evening ladies and gentlemen‚ my name is Michael De Jesus. I am the President of the United Metal Products Workers Union. On my side is the Vice President of the United Metal Products Workers Union Sarah Pinheiro. We are here today to represent the D. G. Barnhouse

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    Plea in Mitigation

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    Plea in Mitigation in favour of Mr A Your honour‚ please grant me permission to make a plea in mitigation in favour my client Mr A‚ who has been charged with the offence of rape on Miss B ‚ an ex-member of a temple and the offense is punishable under Criminal Code sec 249 which refers to Rape wherein it is mentioned that : (1) Any person who is guilty of the crime of rape shall be liable to penal servitude for a term which shall not be less than 10 years. The substance of my plea is that

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    Judicial Activism

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    Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Self-Restraint There are many differences between Judicial Activism and Judicial Self Restraint. Judicial Activism is the process by which judges take an active role in the governing process and Judicial Self Restraint is that Judges should not read their own philosophies into the constitution. Judicial activism is the view that the Supreme Court should be an active and creative partner with the legislative and executive branches in help shaping the government policy

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    1. Explain the structure of the federal judicial system. What are the responsibilities of each part of the system? The federal judicial system can be said to be federal courts with limited jurisdiction. This means that they are only allowed to hear cases that have been authorized by the United States Constitution or the federal statutes. The federal judicial system has 3 levels of the federal court system. This is the U.S Supreme Court‚ the U.S Courts of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts.

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