The Union Representing Hourly Workers at the Hillsburgh Auto Plant

question 7

Multiple Choice

The union representing hourly workers at the Hillsburgh Auto Plant is gearing up for negotiations. The negotiating team is working on a list of demands. They intend to use whatever tactics are necessary to get the company to accept these demands. For its part, the management team plans to push hard to get the union to give up many of its benefits in order to cut costs. The attitudes of the two sides suggest this negotiating process will be an example of which of the following?

• A) distributive bargaining
• B) the jawboning method of bargaining
• C) interest-based bargaining
• D) binding arbitration

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