Collective Bargaining
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This class introduces the student to the process and content of collective bargaining. It addresses among other items the legal obligations to bargain, mandatory and permissible subjects of bargaining, types of bargaining relationships, and styles of bargaining and takes the student thorough multiple stages of labor negotiations. The class also examines the critical information necessary to bargain successfully. Students learn to analyze a contract, cost out a contract, develop a bargaining proposal, practice good table behavior, negotiating skills, how to use the caucus, keep records, and write appropriate contract language.
Augustus Wood
Prof. Wood is a scholar of political economy and gentrification, labor, and social movements in late 20th and early 21st Century African American urban history. Dr. Wood has authored articles that appear in the Labor Studies Journal. He is the editor of the special edition of Labor Studies Journal on Black Workers and COVID. He is a contributor on Routledge’s forthcoming Encyclopedia of Antiracism. He is the former two-term president of the Graduate Employees Organization Local 6300 at the University of Illinois. He hosts the Radio Free Labor program on 90.1 FM WEFT Champaign Radio and the Podcast “Off the Shelf” with the Humanities Research Institute.