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TRANSFORMING LABOUR RELATIONS

Two Stories of how unions and employers transformed their workplaces from an industrial relations "battleground", by working together in their own strategic interests, to achieve shared results and a sustained, new collaborative relationship.

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(For more information on Story #1 and Story #2, click on DVD Title below.)
 .....plus: for a   Preview  of each DVD, click on  the specific pic below

 Story #1
   For People  &  The Business  
Background       Material  
A large private sector union local and a major North American manufacturer re-constructed their relationship and achieved significant results in quality, safety, and employee development.
 

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   "Engaging and  highly informative....
Essential viewing  for  Management and Union leaders alike."

 - Dr. Tom Knight,
Faculty of Commerce,
 University of  British Columbia,  Canada.    

 
DVD STORY MENU

Strike! The Trigger Event

Breakthrough--Common Purpose,
 New Skills

The Proving Ground--Joint Ventures

 Win-Win & A Learning Organization

A New Form of Collective Bargaining
 
 

 Story #2
          Cardinal  River  Story    
Background       Material  
This is the 'inside' story told by union & management leaders who achieved a dramatic turnaround in industrial relations and productivity at Cardinal River Coals Ltd.

 

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 How people in both
the company & the union applied "Relationship-by-Objectives" principles, not as a "flavour of the month" program
 but as a long-term process...

                 

 
DVD STORY MENU

Battleground—Never-Ending
 Workplace "War"

R.B.O. "Relationship By Objectives"

Solving Problems On-The-Job

Sustaining A New Union-Management
 Relationship

 

CUSTOMIZED LEARNING – THEMES & RESOURCES

Two dramatic union-management turnarounds provide insight to the patterns that must apply for labour and management to accomplish a mutually satisfactory re-building of their relationship.  The article "Union-Management Relationship-Building: A Primer" highlights theory underlying this process, and Mark Alexander's "A Comprehensive Model for Understanding & Implementing Workplace Change & Improving Labor-Management Relations" reveals some key factors in sustaining such a change (see Good Reading).

Key themes in this program include Initiating Change, Open Communications, Common Objectives, Problem-Solving, Conflict Competence, and Collective Bargaining & Organization Change.

Links exist to other programs in this DVD Collection;  "Beyond Collision: High Integrity Labour Relations"; "Participative Work Design: Story 1: Re-Designing Work for Self-Regulation, Story 2: New Work Systems; and,  "Responsible Self-Management": Story 2: The Power of Participation.

For more information—see "Transforming Labour Relations": The Resource Guide.