Make Research and Describe Negotiations Reflections (Essay Sample)

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Negotiations reflections
Negotiation is an important method of dealing with trade disagreements between employers and their employees. Negotiations is a tool that ensures after a thorough discussions and meetings between the involved parties, a comprehensive and fair agreement is achieved. Basically, the main objective of this agreement is to make sure that the agreement reached is satisfactory to all the parties involved so as to avoid trade disputes between the these parties. Mainly, this essay will be reviewing the results and facts posted in the study documents and demonstrate how the two groups faired in their negotiations skills through the outcomes of their discussions with the city’s bargaining team which is representing the mayor in the discussions.
Firstly, we look at how the three groups faired in negotiations for their members wages and from the result that we have, it is evident that group 2 and group 3 achieved the maximum wage increase for their members of 9% across the duration of three years as compared to group one which only achieved 6% from the discussions, this is fairly below what they could possibly attain from the negotiations. According to the mayor instructions on percentage wage increase, it’s clear that the highest attainable wage increase lies between 3 and 3.5% for each year in the contract. Groups 2 and 3 have been able to attain that target, surprisingly group 1 is way below achieving that target for their members from the study results which is only valued at 3% for the first year and 1.5% for the last two consecutive years. These facts raise questions of why their exist a wide difference between these groups percentage increase of wages for their members such as which negotiations tools or specialties did the other groups use in the discussions so as to achieve those increase in wages and the same were not applied in group’s one negotiations.
Health insurance is also another crucial component in this negotiation between the workers union and the bargaining team representing the city’s mayor. According to the mayor, there is no contract that will be achieved from the negotiations unless there is an adjustment in the health insurance contributions of the employees which simply means an increase in the percentage of employee’s contributions towards the city’s health insurance program. Results of the outcomes of the negotiations indicate that group 1 and 2 performed well in this issue of health insurance, this is because they were able to advocate for a lesser portion of contribution towards the health insurance which summed up to 23% and 25% respect...