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How did the locking of the cockpit door change the nature of the flight crew's task? How did the change in policies after the crash address this issue?

The Zinnia is a 300-room hotel in the central business district of a major midwestern metropolitan area. This is a full-service hotel-a hotel providing a wide variety of services including food and beverages facilities and meetings rooms-that caters to individuals business travelers, convention attendees, and local business people who need meeting space. The Zinnia emphasizes outstanding service and amenities and is owned by a prominent local real estate magnate, Ms. Lucy balderdash who closely monitors the management and financial performance of her diversified properties.

Many of this city’s major hotels are unionized, and the Zinnias wage rates are equal to the local union wage scale. You feel that while the Zinnias employees benefit package is modest compared to what he u union has been able to extract form your unionized competitors it is competitive with other low skilled occupations in the area and is particularly generous for the undocumented immigrants that you have quietly hired to fill the dishwashing and room cleaning positions. You also feel that your unionized competitors are saddled with myriad work rules that restrict flexibility.

The local union organizes aggressively and isn’t afraid to have public marches and demonstrations in support of its goal of social justice. But you though your workers were content, and you were astonished to lean this morning that Zinnia workers have been quietly signing authorization cards. You received notice from the NLRB that a petition was filed by the local hotel union requesting an election covering back of the house workers (kitchen, laundry, and room cleaning employees-not from of the house employees like bellhops, bartenders, and waitresses) and that this petition was supported by signed authorization cards from 40 percent of the workers.

Responding to a union organizing drive box at the end of Chapter 6 and assume that the union wins recognition. As an HR manager, how would you prepare for negotiations? What type of information would be important for you? What type of bargaining priorities and strategies would you develop? How would your answer change if you were a union representative?