Meeting Facilitation

The Labor Management Council offers the services of a Certified Meeting Facilitator in assisting groups through the process of focusing their energies to accomplish their tasks.

Worksite Labor Management Committees

Worksite Labor Management Committees can be an effective method to promote and sustain Labor Management Cooperation.  They provide a forum whereby both Management and the Labor Union work together to build a joint decision-making process in which all employees become involved in building the future of an organization. Employees become involved in building action plans to implement ideas about how to improve their workplace.  Key components of workplace labor management committees include:

• Both parties must realize that they have mutual interests and competing goals, and they need to strive for the answer to serious problems, which would be equitable for all.
• Both parties should measure their results on long range benefits and recognize the mutual benefits of labor–management cooperation, and that serious challenges affecting both labor and management can be resolved in the cooperative effort with less difficulty than either party can achieve by working alone. 
• A conviction on the part of management that the union is both willing and able to organize cooperative activity among employees to achieve lower costs and increased efficiency.
• A willingness on the part of the employer to share some vital managerial functions with the representatives of the union.
• A willingness on the labor union’s part to be a production-boosting agency in return for tangible and intangible benefits for the union and its members.
• A resulting relationship in which the parties assume joint responsibility for solving production problems and eliminating obstacles interfering with greater efficiency.

The Labor Management Council of Northeast Wisconsin provides the Facilitation and Training to create an effective Labor Management Committee and provides the ongoing support to sustain success.