PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Bargaining, Sissela Bok
13 Apr 2020
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Collective bargaining: negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees. Adversarial: involving or characterized by conflict or opposition. Albert carr has argued in an influential article that the ethics of business is best understood on the model of the ethics of poker. The task of the union is to secure as much in pay and benefits as possible. The task of the employer"s negotiators is to keep the pay and benefits as low as possible . Give-and-take, bluffing and deception are the rule. A good part of the time the businessman is trying to do unto others as he hopes others will not do unto him . Norman bowie disagrees with this entire model suggested by carr. We shouldn"t look at collective bargaining as a game of poker . Many corporations that have played the game of business like the game of poker have suffered badly .
