Mgt 445 Week 3

The first article I will discuss is titled "American Airlines union pushes for strike", this article is a textbook example of distributive bargaining (win-lose). This article discusses American Airline employees' threatening to strike, but Federal Law makes it very difficult for airline workers to strike. Airline employees can walk off the job only if the National Mediation Board declares negotiations deadlocked and one side refuses binding arbitration. Even then, the president can block a strike - President Bill Clinton ordered American's pilots back to their jobs minutes after they struck in 1997 (). This situation is distributive bargaining because even if the American Airlines employees go on strike, they can possibly be ordered to work anyways, so it...