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Align the management story
One voice.
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Prep Union Negotiation Talking Points Without Blowing Up the Relationship
35 min
Intermediate
Difficult Conversations
Difficult Conversation
Know your package, your floor, and your respectful no.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Negotiations derail when management wing it on economics or telegraph splits.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build issue-by-issue points
Trade, don't lecture.
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Set red lines and caucus rules
No freelancing.
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Draft likely union attacks
Prepare, don't escalate.
Make Your Play
Prep Union Negotiation Talking Points Without Blowing Up the Relationship
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Key demands, past practice fights, public pressure.
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Budget, policy, legal, political limits.
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What management wants to win or trade.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Align the management story
One voice.
02
Build issue-by-issue points
Trade, don't lecture.
03
Set red lines and caucus rules
No freelancing.
04
Draft likely union attacks
Prepare, don't escalate.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
Bargaining opens next week, or the union just passed a provocative proposal and leadership wants a response.
You'll need
- Union proposals or themes
- Management constraints
- Your package priorities
You'll get
- A management opening themes, package tradeoffs, and lines not to cross in the room you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A management opening themes, package tradeoffs, and lines not to cross in the room you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
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