Part B: Interpretation and Data Collection

This is an individual assignment and it is due in Week 6 or 7 (see the course schedule for the specific due date). Value = 15% of your final
grade.

The negotiation teams have decided what articles will be negotiated, and each team member has been assigned an article that they will be
responsible for. The purpose of this assignment is twofold. First, you must demonstrate that you understand the rights that the current
language provides with respect to your article. Second, you must collect relevant data that can be used to determine what changes could be
made to the language. Data collection is critical to successful negotiations. It provides the negotiators with information to support their
demands.

Interpretation of Article:
In this section you need to demonstrate your understanding of the article using a question and answer format. You will pose questions that
employees may ask about the article, and then you will provide the answer to that question. Your answers should be written so that someone
with a high school education could understand the answer. Just paraphrasing the clauses will not help employees to understand the language,
and will not earn you marks on this element of the assignment. Make sure that you have addressed all the key rights provided under this article
in your questions and answers.

Research:
As we discussed in class, your research should include three key areas:

1. Legislation – are there legislative requirements that must be considered with respect to this language?
2. Economic context – what did you learn in Part A that might impact on your article?
3. Competition – what are other companies doing with respect to this language?

This assignment should contain the information, statistics, etc. you will use to identify changes to the article in the next assignment. Also, you
will use this information during the negotiations to convince the other team your position is justified and they must make concessions. All
research must be cited.

The Fine Print:

1. All research must be cited.
2. Goal - 5 pages (this will vary based on the complexity of the article), single spaced, and font size at least 11.
3. Charts and diagrams can be included as appendices (these don’t count towards the page limit). It’s your responsibility to interpret the
meaning of all data submitted in this assignment. If you don’t tell me what you think the charts and diagrams mean in the body of this
assignment, you will not earn any grades for including them in the appendix.

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4. This assignment must be submitted electronically through the dropbox in SLATE.

5. Do NOT use point form. If you have a list of items, you can use a bullet format for the list, but the document should not be entirely in
point form

6. Do not leave any instructions in your final paper.

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Interpretation of Article:
Questions from the union member: Answers from the HR representative:

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Analysis of Legislation:
Complete this chart if there is legislation that impacts on the article you are negotiating. You can increase or decrease the number of rows to
meet your needs. If legislation is not a consideration, delete the chart and provide a brief explanation. Delete these instructions before
submitting your paper.

Legislation Data Collected How does Consolidated Electric Potential Impact on Negotiation of
referred to and compare? your article
URL

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Economic Indicators:

Observations Instructions: Review your observations about the economic and financial indicators from Part A. In the area below, discuss
from Part A the key considerations that will impact on the negotiation of your article.

Overall
impression of
the economy
and its
potential
impact on the
negotiation of
your article:

CE’s financial
performance
and its
potential
impact on the
negotiation of
your article:

References:

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Competitive Analysis
The purpose of this section is to present and analysis competitive data. First you must present your data analysis. For some articles, the data is
provided within the case. For other articles you will need to look for data in real collective agreement using Negotech. Next, you must tell me
how Consolidated Electric compares to the competition.

Delete these instructions before submitting your paper.

Data Collected:
Use this chart only if you had to use real collective agreements to collect competitive data. Otherwise, you will write a short report on your
analysis. Delete these instructions before submitting your paper.

Agreement Consolidated Meritor Systems Company Northern Telecom Canada Limited Owens-Illinois (O-I Canada
Electric (Nortel) Corp.)

Location GTA Chatham-Kent, Ontario Belleville, Ontario Brampton, Ontario

Industry Manufacturin Manufacturing Manufacturing Manufacturing

g
Jurisdiction Ontario Ontario Ontario Ontario
Expiry Date of April 2018 March 2004 Feb 2000 Feb 2016
Agreement

URL NA http://negotech.labour.gc.ca/en http://negotech.labour.gc.ca/eng/agree http://negotech.labour.gc.ca/eng/a

g/agreements/02/0201807a.pdf ments/02/0276514a.pdf greements/02/0229210a.pdf

Number of 640 510 510 370

Workers

Union and UNIFOR National Automobile, National Automobile, Aerospace, United Steel, Paper and Forestry,
Affiliations (CLC) Aerospace, Transportation and Transportation and General Workers Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy,
General Workers Union of Union of Canada (CAW Canada) Allied Industrial and Service
Canada (CAW Canada) (CLC) (CLC) Workers Intl. Union (AFL-

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CIO / CLC)

Local The Local 601 LOCAL 127, CHATHAM GENERAL WORKERS OF UNITED STEELWORKERS
CANADA, LOCALS 1839 (USW) (CLERICAL UNION)
LOCAL 260G

Notice (in days) Management Not Available 45 days Not Available

prior to discretionary
technological
advancement

Notice (in days) Management 90 days Not Available Not Available

prior to layoff / discretionary

Severance Pay Management Not Available The employee may be retained on The amount of severance
discretionary his/her former job until the change is allowance to which an employee
made. shall be entitled shall be in
accordance to seniority:

 5 years but less than 7

years - 3 months pay
 7 years but less than 10
years - 4 months pay
 10 years but less than 15
years - 5 months pay
 15 years or more of
service - 12 months pay

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Data Interpretation:

In this section, tell me how the data you collected in the competitive analysis could impact the demands at the bargaining table. Delete these
instructions before submitting your paper.

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Rubric – Part B
Criteria Exceeds Expectations Meets Expectations Approaching Below Expectations Mark
Expectations

Interpretation of Demonstrated a Demonstrated a good Demonstrated a limited Demonstrated significant

Individual Analysis of Article

Article comprehensive understanding of the understanding of the errors in the

understanding of the current language and its current language and its interpretation of the
current language and its impact. impact. current language and its
impact. impact.
All the explanations were Most explanations were A limited number of the Paraphrased the
appropriate for CE appropriate for CE explanations were language.
employees. employees. appropriate for CE
employees.
3.5-2.8 2.7-2.5 2.4-2.1 2.0-0
Legislation Comprehensive analysis Good analysis of Limited analysis of Limited research
of legislative legislative considerations legislative considerations conducted
considerations
3.5-2.8 2.7-2.5 2.4-2.1 2.0-0
Economic Context Comprehensive analysis Good analysis of the Limited analysis of the Limited or no
of the economic context economic context economic context consideration of the
economic context
3.5-2.8 2.7-2.5 2.4-2.1 2.0-0
Competitive Analysis Comprehensive analysis Good analysis of Limited analysis of Limited or no
of competitive data competitive data competitive data consideration of
competitive data
3.5-2.8 2.7-2.5 2.4-2.1 2.0-0
Presentation of paper Written in a clear and Written in generally clear Written in an Difficult to understand
concise manner and/or concise manner unorganized manner due to the organization of
Included unnecessary information
information
No spelling and/or Between 1-3 spelling Between 4-6 spelling More than 6 spelling
grammatical errors and/or grammatical and/or grammatical and/or grammatical
errors errors errors
All sources are cited Some sources are cited Significant lack of citation No sources are cited
correctly and/or incorrect format and/or incorrect format
used occasionally used.

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Criteria Exceeds Expectations Meets Expectations Approaching Below Expectations Mark
Expectations

1-.8 .79-.7 .69-.6 .59-0

General Comments
Grade (out of 15)

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