Read the "HR Strategy: Responding to a Union Organizing Drive" in the Budd textbook

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Read the "HR Strategy: Responding to a Union Organizing Drive" in the Budd textbook. Then, in your thread, select 1 of the scenarios and assume that the union wins recognition. As a HR Manager, consider your options, and provide some analysis on how to prepare for negotiations. Integrate the type(s) of information important in your preparation and planning for negotiations. Evaluate and explain the types of bargaining priorities and strategies you would develop. Finally, how would your preparation change if you were a union representative?

School District 273 is a medium-sized public school district in a Northeastern state with a comprehensive bargaining law that includes teachers. The bargaining law allows strikes (except for police, firefighters, and prison guards) and also allows unions to be recognized through a card check recognition procedure if the employer does not object. Otherwise a representation election will be conducted when a petition is supported by 30 percent signed authorization cards. No employees in District 273 are represented by a union, though teachers in many neighboring districts are.

District 273 receives 75 percent of its funding from the state based on a statewide per-student funding formula; the remainder comes from local property taxes and fees. To balance the state budget, school funding was reduced by 10 percent. School budgets are also being squeezed by rising health care costs. And teachers are frustrated by the state’s emphasis on standardized test scores; they feel they are losing control over educational standards and curriculum. A grassroots unionization effort started among some teachers at the district’s high school near the beginning of the school year. It is now the middle of the school year, and the leaders of this grassroots effort—which they are now calling the District 273 Teacher’s Association—claim to have signed authorization cards from 70 percent of the teachers, including large numbers at all the district’s schools. They have asked the school board to voluntarily recognize their union and schedule bargaining sessions to hear their concerns and negotiate a contract that preserves teachers’ input into the educational process