COMMERCE 4BC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Secret Ballot, Making Money, Unifor

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMMERCE 4BC3
• Professor: Philip Rose

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Direct bargaining/settling: what percentage of agreements or settlements are achieved by the parties alone (without any outside intervention): have been increasing over time and are more prevalent in the public sector. Non-binding dispute resolution procedures: conciliation and mediation. Overall voluntary settlement rate: adding the number of direct settlements and mediated/conciliated settlements. Arbitration: where the arbitrator imposes a settlement very low in the private sector, mainly because many public sector employees don"t have the right to strike so they have to go to arbitration. Work stoppage: the settlements achieved as a result of a work stoppage, much higher in the private sector, because most private sector employees have the right to strike. Legislation: the settlement of strike activity through government legislation, higher in public sector. Overall dispute rate: adding up the totals of all settlement rates. This tries to diagnose how well collective bargaining is doing: ex. The period of 2000-2015: overall dispute rate private: 91. 5%, public is 83%