Does Your Current Contract Stink? Find Out From “A Real SOB”
“You’re crazy,” our Chairman told me recently. “That guy’s a real SOB.”
But I’m getting ahead of myself…
Getting the best collective bargaining agreement possible is important in the best times. Today, a great contract can literally be a matter of life or death for your business.
Want to make sure you get the best possible contract during your next round of negotiations? Our own “SOB” will show you how.
Wonder What A Former Union Officer – And “Real SOB“ At The Table – Would Say About Your Current Contract?
Our consultants have negotiated contracts all over the United States. Many of our negotiators are former union officers who have negotiated (and perhaps more important administered) hundreds of contracts. A few of these we even brought on as consultants after they left the union movement – they impressed us that much from the other side of the table.
But one guy stood apart. Our Chairman had one of the most intense negotiations of his more than 40-year career with this guy sitting across the table. When I told the Chairman that I wanted to offer this guy a job I thought he was going to faint.
“You’re crazy,” he said. “That guy is a real SOB.”
“Yeah, I know,” I said, “but now he could be our SOB.”
I won the argument.
We’re not putting his name on the website because his old union doesn’t even know he’s on our team now. We’d like to keep it that way. But let us know if you want to have our SOB pick apart your contract and tell you how to use your next negotiation to:
- Improve your bottom line…
- Increase flexibility…
- Measurably raise productivity…
- Improve attendance…and more
One bad move at the table and you could be signing away your company’s competitive advantage
Here are some examples I am sure some of you are facing.
- Job classifications that are limiting your flexibility and leading to an overstaffed workplace.
- Attendance policies that are diminishing your companies productivity.
- Shift schedules that are leaving you at a disadvantage to respond to customer needs quickly.
- Weak layoff language, out-dated overtime policies…..and more
Whether you negotiate your contract using your own internal team, using outside legal counsel or are considering using a consultant, you will gain valuable strategies from our review. Most companies don’t understand that union officials don’t look at contract language the same way companies and lawyers do. Good union stewards and business agents look at the final contract as the beginning of the negotiation, not the end.
If you don’t negotiate your contract with this key principle in mind even the best-written proposals will be shredded after three years. That’s why it is so valuable to get a former union official to take a look at your contract. He doesn’t just look at the words – he sees the gaps.
Bargaining – especially first contract negotiations – can be very tough for even the most experienced negotiating teams. Every company enters bargaining negotiations hoping to secure the best possible contract. But hope is not a strategy.
Get your own FREE contract review by our SOB, and find out exactly where he would try to “blow up” your contract – and how to fix it
To request your FREE contract evaluation, simply click below and fill out the information on the next page. Someone will contact you to schedule your evaluation. There is no charge for this service.
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