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Question 1. Explain primary participants and their main objectives in Employee Relations. (2) How their interests affect conflict in the workplace. What if the interests are very different? What if the interests are similar? Give an example.

Question 2. Compare and Contrast the Unitarist/Unitarism and Pluralist/Pluralism in the Employee Relations.

Question 3. For the example below, explain: (1) Who the parties involved are, (2) the interest of each party, (3) the cause of the dispute, (4) symptoms/expressions of the conflict, and (5) whether there are perceptions of organizational injustice, and if there are, which categories these might fall into.

More than 430 members of Unite employed at Refresco Gerber voted to hold eleven 36-hour strikes, beginning in January 2015 and continuing through a 10-week period to April, in protesting against the organization's intention to save money and harmonize its employee term and conditions. The company proposed altering employees' contracts by cutting pay, reducing overtime and shortening holiday entitlements. A spokesperson at Refresco Gerber pointed out that 95 per cent of the staff had accepted the new employment terms. A Unite represent said, 'The race to the bottom needs to stop. The organization needs to drop its refusal to negotiate and enter into meaningful talks to avoid the inevitable disruption that prolonged strike action will have on the supply of well-loved household brand.'