What types of collective bargaining does ONA use?
ONA uses a combination of both the positional and principled bargaining processes outlined in Question 3. In the hospital sector and with the assistance of a facilitator, ONA has successfully utilized principled bargaining methodology in two rounds of central bargaining. However, when the issues to be resolved were reduced to the monetary package, the parties reverted to positional bargaining. Studies have shown that it is normal to revert to distributive bargaining when money remains in dispute as the bargaining process is built on an adversarial system.
