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The Union Table
🔵 Stable 🕐 updated 2026-09-04
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-simulators
Simulate a collective-bargaining session from either chair — the package-versus-item trap, the caucus break used as a weapon, the mandate check, the costing challenge, the last-minute add — run against your actual negotiation, with a debrief on every concession that left the table unpaid-for. Use when asked to prepare for union negotiations, rehearse a bargaining session, practice negotiating with management, or we are heading into pay talks. Produces the session transcript with the other side's caucus notes, the concession ledger showing what moved and what was traded for it, and a debrief with the discipline rules for the real room. Symmetric: plays either side.
What to give it
▸ Your chair — union side or employer side; the simulation plays the other with equal craft
▸ The claim and the counters — what is on the table from both sides: pay, hours, conditions, security, whatever is live
▸ Your mandate and your floor — what you are authorised to agree, what needs referral, and the point past which there is no deal
▸ The context — the finances as each side tells them, the relationship history, any deadline (a ballot, a budget date, an expiry)
▸ The room — who attends on each side, and who on your side is prone to freelancing
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓ The simulation plays the requested chair's opponent with genuine craft, not a strawman
✓ Every concession in the transcript appears in the ledger, including the free ones
✓ The package-trap beat shows the concrete cost of item-by-item drift
✓ At least one moment exists where the right move is a caucus, and the debrief marks it
✓ The costing challenge is answered with arithmetic, not sentiment
✓ Legal boundaries are flagged out of character, jurisdiction-neutrally
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not play either side as villain or fool — the other chair is competent and partly right, which is why the discipline matters
Do not let fairness arguments substitute for costing — the debrief sends you back for the arithmetic
Do not coach bad-faith tactics — surface them when the other side uses them, and name the good-faith line
Do not resolve the negotiation neatly — the rehearsal ends where sessions end: partial, adjourned, with homework
Do not stay in character in the debrief
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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