Labor and Management at DJ Trucking Cannot Agree Upon a Contract

question 8

Multiple Choice

Labor and management at DJ Trucking cannot agree upon a contract for the truck drivers. The drivers are threatening to strike, and management knows that such a strike would be very costly. Each side contends that they are bargaining fairly, but no agreement seems to be possible.
-Both sides agree that they are competing over a fixed amount of resources. Each side feels that what one side wins, the other loses. The two sides are engaged in ________.

• A) integrative bargaining
• B) distributive bargaining
• C) mediation
• D) BATNA
• E) arbitration

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Definitions:

Discriminate

To treat someone differently or less favorably on the basis of certain characteristics, such as race, age, or gender, often in a way that is unfair or illegal.

Ex Post Facto

A law that retroactively changes the legal consequences or status of actions that were committed before the enactment of the law.

Rights Warning

Typically refers to the Miranda warning, a notification given by police in the U.S. to criminal suspects in police custody, advising them of their right to silence and legal counsel.

Reasonableness

A standard of fairness and rational behavior expected in legal and contractual relationships.