Honda Motors has opened its new  car manufacturing factory in Kenya in Africa in 2018 and  due to COVID- 19is facing financial problems, suffering losses and also  does not have good relations with the government of Kenya.

The company management is facing lot of labor related problems and the union has threatened to go on strike if their demands are not met.

The union has three demands:

1.Reduce the number of shifts from 3 to 2. Each shift is of 8 hours.

2. Increase every workers salary by 10% from  January 01,2023.

3. Presently only white- collar workers/officers are being sent for technical trainings to Japan. Blue collar workers/supervisors must also be sent for technical training to Japan

The management has decided to have a negotiation meeting with the union leaders on August 20, 2022 to resolve the above mentioned issues.
 

 Discuss the following in detail:                                                         

   1.   As Union: How will you Prepare & conduct the negotiation

   2. As Management: How will you prepare & conduct the negotiation

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