Your team WIII De reqUIred to negotiate and reach agreement on these ISSUES. You can expect to take some adjournments during the course of the negotiation. If you do not reach an agreement, the current dispute procedure provides for reference to a private arbitrator. There is no provision for mediation so both parties would forgo any direct control over the eventual outcome; therefore it is in neither party's interests to hand over their issues to an arbitrator. Once the negotiation is complete you will have to report back to either the company senior executive team, or to the union membership. Clearly, if you have not achieved a good agreement then this will be a difficult meeting. However. you can anticipate that it will be even more difficult if you have not reached agreement at all