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11 Cards in this Set
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Knights of Labor
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First national labor union; founded in 1869
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Craft Union
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An organization of skilled specialists in a particular trade or craft
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Organization of craft unions that championed fundamnetal labor issues; founded in 1886
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Industrial Unions
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Labor Organizations of unskilled and semiskilled workerd in mass-production industries such as automobiles and mining
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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Union Organization of unskilled workers; broke away from the American Federation of Labor in 1935 and rejoined it in 1955.
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Yellow-Dog Contract
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type of contract that required employees to agree as a condition of employment not to join a union; prohibited by the Norris-LaGuardia Act in 1932.
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Collective Bargaining
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Process whereby union and management representatives form a labor-management agreement, or contract, for workers.
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Certification
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Formal Process whereby a union is recognized by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) as the bargaining agent for a group of employees
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Decertification
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Process by which workers take away a union's right to represent them.
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Negotiated Labor-Management Agreement (Labor Contract)
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Agreement that sets the tone and clarifies the terms under which management and labor agree to function over a period of time.
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Union Security Clause
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Provision in a negotiated labor-management agreement that stipulates that employees who benefit from a union must either officially join or at least pay dues to the union.
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