The parties in any collective bargaining contract negotiation are seeking to balance costs and benefits in order to achieve mutual agreement. Developing proficiency in assessing relative value and costs of a benefit improves your ability to compare apples to oranges. Costing a contract entails a comfort with the fundamentals of workplace math and statistics, as well as the ability to effectively communicate this aspect of negotiation. Are you prepared to estimate numbers and explain them?

The importance of this foundation is often underestimated. This course fills gaps for both management and labor by developing a new mindset for costing a contract. You will use basic costing tools to calculate the value of a collective bargaining contract with a focus on calculating and communicating relative value and costs. You will explore the six key principles to estimate costs in order to create agreement proposals.

At the conclusion of the course, you will have applied the tools and principles to a sample proposal and counterproposal. You will have practiced the skills to assess the contract's impact to employees and developed strategies for educating stakeholders. Whether you‘re making a counterproposal or you're ready to get a contract ratified, you will be better able to explain your numbers with the confidence and experience gained from this course.

You are required to have completed the following course or have equivalent experience before taking this course:

  • Collective Bargaining
 

How It Works

Course Length
2 weeks
Effort
3 to 5 hours of study per week
Format
100% online, instructor-led
  • Union leaders and staff
  • Managers and supervisors in unionized environments
  • HR managers
  • Attorneys and general counsel for unions or companies involved in contract interpretation/enforcement
  • International professionals working with US-based organizations
  • Senior executives
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