Rev. ed. of: Negotiating a labor contract : a management handbook / Charles S. Loughran. 3rd ed. 2003.
Includes index.
General assessment of negotiations -- Preparing for a bargaining -- Developing a bargaining game plan -- The law controlling labor negotiations -- Preliminary stages of negotiation -- Practical tips for the management spokesperson -- Strategies for bargaining over economics -- Negotiating health and welfare benefits -- Negotiating pensions -- Costing contract demands, offers, settlements -- Drafting labor contract language -- Striving to reach agreement -- Strike preparation, decision making, and management -- Bringing the negotiations to a conclusion -- Special bargaining situations -- Nontraditional negotiations and alternatives to negotiations -- The collective bargaining process: an insider's view