Last September 13-15, 2017 a Three (3) Day Seminar Workshop was held entitled “Enhancing Skills in Trade Union Administration” at Anne Raquel’s Resort in Olongapo, Zambales. We invited 40 Union Officers (2 person per Union) from different locations near Region 3.

The said Seminar is the 2^nd leg of the Seminar Program for Enhancing Skills of our Union Officers in their CBA Negotiation and developing their ability of the new trends in the approaches in CBA strategy and Tactics.

This Seminar is to Develop the Union Leaders in the new approaches and techniques in the CBA negotiations.

On the First day of the Seminar, September 13, 2017, we welcomed the arrival and the registration of the Participants, the said also provided them their respective room designations. Lunch started at around 12pm and the Seminar started with the first topic entitled Phases of CBA lectured by Mr. Alex Morillo, wherein the basic concept, principles, definitions and Procedures were discussed and also the Role of the Union President and the Union Negotiating Team members. In here, they will be able to draft their respective CBA proposals and learn the importance of their political demands as protection to their security of tenure. There was a snack break followed by the second phase of the Collective Bargaining which is the negotiation phase.

The Strategies and Tactics of CBA negotiation was introduced and learned by the Officers. Quantification of their Economic Demands were also taught and the importance of the Financial Statements of their Companies were discussed and analyzed.

The Company’s Net Profit vis-à-vis Union Economic Demands were compared and analyzed. The test of the Company’s Viability and profitability were learned and unions were taught how to justify their economic demands in the Workshop presentation which was held on the Second Day.

The Third day was solely for the Union Administration Phase. Discussed here were the Grievance Machinery, principles and the causes of conflict were also taught. The Officers also learned how to handle grievances and a grievance form was develop and discussed thoroughly by the Officers.

An activity workshop was presented to the groups and the participants. The last day was utilized by the presentation of the results of the Financial Analysis of 3 Financial Statements of Security Bank, Petron Philippines and the Nestle Company. Later on, the case of the Grievance Cases was also presented and discussed by the different group. The final event was the Solidarity Night. The Seminar ended around 2:00pm on the third day September 15, 2017.

The Part Three of the Seminar is for the Para-Legal Training to be held in Tagaytay for the Union Leaders of South Luzon.