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Finding a Voice to Effect Change Through the Power of Collective Bargaining
As a legally regulated negotiating tool, CB empowers nurses to find a voice for requiring change in their economic and general welfare and in the health care environment.

As a legally regulated negotiating tool, CB empowers nurses to find a voice for requiring change in their economic and general welfare and in the health care environment. By implication, the procedures established by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and additional state laws, require employers to negotiate with their employees as equals. "While the typical workplace is built on principles of authority and subordination, the bargaining process is not. When union members [come to the bargaining table], they are no longer in a position of subordination to the managerial authority of the employer" (Rainsberger, n.d, "Control of the Agenda," para. 2).