Employee Labor Relations - Act

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Act that provides balance of power between union and management by designating certain union activities as unfair labor practices; also known as Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA)

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Taft-Hartley Act

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Act that originally provided railroad employees the right to organize and bargain collectively; now covers both railroad and airline employees

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Railway Labor Act

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Act that curbed concentration of power that interfered with trade and reduced economic competition; directed at large monopolistic employees but applied by courts to the labor unions

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Sherman Anti-trust Act

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Act that protects the rights of employees to organize unhampered by management; also know as National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

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Wagner Act aka National Labor Relations Act

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Union employee's right to have a union representative or coworker present during an investigatory interview

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Weingarten Rights

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Agency that has authority to conduct union representation elections adn investigate unfair labor practices

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National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

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Act that guarantees works' right to organize and restricts issuance of court injunctions against nonviolent union activity such as strikes, picketing and boycotts

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Norris-LaGuardia Act

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Act that protests the rights of union members from corrupt or discriminatory labor unions

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Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) aka
Landrum-Griffin Act

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Act that extended the policies of the Railway Labor Act to all interstate commerce organizations

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National industrial Recovery Act

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Act that extended collective bargaining rights to federal employees

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Civil Service Reform Act

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Act that minimally restricted the use of injunctions against labor and legalized peaceful strikes, picketing and boycotts

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Clayton Act

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Clause that states that even if workers do not join the union, they must pay the equivalent of dues to the union

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Agency Shop

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Clause that states that union membership is a condition of hiring; is illegal (except in the construction industry)

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Closed Shop

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Clause that states when workers take jobs in a specific bargaining unit, they must join the union with a certain period of time

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Union Shop