Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop and promote a bargaining agenda and environment
- Implement organising strategies to build membership, involvement and power in the workplace
- Explain steps in bargaining an agreement to members
- Discuss merits and benefits of bargaining
- Consult members in defining a bargaining agenda
- Ensure initial claims or content for a new agreement are discussed and agreed with members
- Involve membership in bargaining processes
- Plan activities that involve membership in support of union claims
- Support members in workplace activities
- Advise members of employer's response and provide members with opportunities to comment and provide input
- Obtain final approval from union and membership or recommence negotiations or withdraw from bargaining process
- Implement agreement