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15 Cards in this Set
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Industrial relations
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The study of workers, groups of workers, their unions and associations, employers and their organizations, and the environment in which their parties interact
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Management
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The individuals and groups who are responsible for promoting the goals of employers and their organizations
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Labor
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Employees and the unions that represent them
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Government
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Local, state, and federal political process
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Total power
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Total profits that are available for labor and management
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Relative power
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The relative strength of labor management
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Strike leverage
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the degree to which workers and the employer are willing and able to sustain a strike
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Macroeconomic factors
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unemployment and the growth of productivity
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Right-to-work-laws
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make it illegal to require employees to join unions as a condition of employment
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Servicing model of unionism
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focuses on contract negotiations and contract administration
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Organizing model of unionism
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focuses on the organizing process and the internal operation of the union
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Unions as networks
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Unions may need to serve as networking agents for workers as they move through their careers and across the various jobs, in and out of the labor force
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The election unit
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employees eligible to vote
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Union decertification
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removing a union as the bargaining agent
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Pattern bargaining
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an informal means for spreading the terms and conditions of employment negotiated in one formal bargaining structure to another
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