Assume that you are part of a mediation team that has been brought in to help overcome an impasse between negotiators who are deliberating the use of embryonic stem cells for a research project.

General Motors and the United Auto Workers
1.Recently, General Motors and the United Auto Workers had to sit down and negotiate a change in the
labor agreement in order to keep the company from going bankrupt. Consider what might have gone on
during these negotiations and discuss how framing might have been used, and what issues might have
been discussed, in order to reach an acceptable agreement.
2.Assume that you are part of a mediation team that has been brought in to help overcome an impasse
between negotiators who are deliberating the use of embryonic stem cells for a research project. The
decision makers are polarized along ethical and religious lines. Since this is a potentially emotional
issue, what would you do in order to break this impasse? How could the fixed pie concept come into
play in this situation?