Individual Reflection on Negotiation Simulation

Running head: INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION ON NEGOTIATION SIMULATION
INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION ON NEGOTIATION SIMULATION
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1INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION ON NEGOTIATION SIMULATION
I am the Human Resources manager of the Bundoora Bus Company and I have been
working at this establishment for more than 20 years. They have been good employers to me and
I have tried my best at being grateful by being an honest, loyal, and hard-working administrator.
Recently, however, during one of the many random drug test that are performed by the company,
one of the old employees, a bus driver named Casey Connor’s urine sample gave positive results
for cannabis. This brought forward multiple problems, which could affect me badly, given the
policies to handle such drug abuse cases was drawn up by me.
The Bundoora Bus Company had been struggling to maintain and vie up to their
competition due to rising costs and industry deregulation. Additionally, the highly unionized
nature of the transport workforce is a strong power base, which has forced our company to hire
members of the Union. The negotiation of the Enterprise Bargaining agreements is difficult with
them because the Union has a tendency of threatening the company of withdrawing their
members if the management failed to meet with their demands. This meant less control of the
company over any given situation. As a result we had begun hiring non-Union labour which put
the Union under pressure and more liable to our demands.
Casey Connor, a Union member, was under suspicion from the beginning due to his
lifestyle choices. Therefore, even if he was an employee with good work record, I was bound to
work according to the provisions of the EBA. After a few incidents that had happened over the
past 5 years, I had felt determined at introducing a new provision in the EBA, which ensured the
safety of drivers, passengers, and the public, in general. Moreover, the Union had no objections
with this new addition, as was stated by their representative, Lee Levine. The provision allowed
the company to demand random drug tests twice a year. For each test, one sample would be
tested on a home kit and if that comes out as positive, another sample is sent to a laboratory for