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It is the third session. The gap has come down from 9% to 2.5%. Everyone in the room knows roughly where this is going to land. And yet nobody moves. If you work in employee or labour relations, you have sat in that room. You have watched a negotiation that was 80% done stall for three weeks, go to conciliation, pick up a strike notice, and settle in the end at a number that was on the table a month earlier, after everybody had lost a fortnight's production, salaries and a g

The best and simple guide to the mediation process

Negotiators must approach collective bargaining with a broader brush, then a narrow solution orientated focus. Negotiators must consider...

I have facilitated a number of complex collective bargaining processes over my 22 years and have been involved in numerous court cases in...