Several / Multiple Unions in the establishment – how to sign settlement

It is debatable question that “should the management sign the settlement with the majority union or is there any other recourse open to the establishment”.

To answer this it can be interpreted that “in such situation the management of concerned establishment can have three options”.

Firstly, sign the settlement with the majority union and can call upon all the workers who have to accept the benefits of the settlement to tender an undertaking accepting all the terms of the settlement. In this process if the non-members like to accept the benefit they would also be required to accept the obligations by giving undertaking.

The other course is to involve the new union also in the process of Collecting Bargaining, and,

the third course is to seek the intervention of the Conciliation Officer and sign the settlement in Conciliation. Once the settlement is signed in conciliation the management will get an advantage that it will be binding on all the workers irrespective of whether they are members of the majority union or not and irrespective whether such workers tender any undertaking accepting the benefits or obligations or not.

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