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29 Cards in this Set
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Labor Unions |
organizations that exist to represent the interests of employees |
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collective bargaining |
labor union leadership enters into good faith negotiations with management representatives over terms of employment such as work hours, pay, and job security |
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industrial union |
consists of all the workers in a particular plant or group of plants |
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national union |
composed of local unions, which it charters |
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American federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations (AFLCIO) |
central trad union federation in the united states. |
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Change to win coalition |
union federation consisting of unions that broke from the seven labor unions |
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right to work laws |
prohibit management and unions from entering into agreements requiring union membership as a condition of employment |
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Committee on political education (COPE) |
purpose is to support politicians who are friendly to the case of organized labor |
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Union salting |
process of training union organizers to apply for jobs at a company and once hired, working to unionize employees |
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flooding the community |
is the process of the union inundating communities with organizers to target a particular business in an organizing attempt |
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Public awareness campaigns |
involve labor maneuvers that do not coincide with a strike or an organization campaign to pressure an employer for better wages |
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card check |
organizing approach by labor in which employees sign a nonsecret card of support if they want unionization, if 50 percent of the workforce plus one worker sign a card, the union is formed |
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labor management relations act (taft hartley act) |
extensively revised the NLRA |
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bargaining unit |
consists of a group of employees, not always union members, recognized by an employer or certified by an administrative agency as appropriate for representation by a labor org. |
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Authorization card |
document indicating that an employee wants to be represented by a labor organization in collective bargaining |
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Mandatory bargaining issues Permissive issues prohibited issues |
Issues with wages, hours, other may be raised but cannot be bargained over issues that are already mandated |
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closed shop |
an arrangement whereby union membership is a perk for employement |
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union shop |
arrangement requires that all employees become members of the union after a specified period of time |
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Maintenance of membership |
employees who are members of the union at the time the labor agreement is signed or who later voluntarily join must continue their memberships until the termination |
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Agency shop |
does not require employees to join the union |
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open shop |
strictly defined, is employement on equal terms to union members and non members |
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checkoff of dues |
provision, the company agrees to withhold union dues from members paychecks and to forward the money directly to the union |
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Grieveance |
broadly defined as an employee dissatisfaction or feeling of persona injustice relating to his or her employment |
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backhead demands |
demands for benefits that the union does not expect to receive when they are first made |
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arbitration |
dispute is submitted to an impartial third party for binding decisions |
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rights arbitration |
disputes over the interpretation and application of the various provision of an existing contract |
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interest arbitration |
disputes over the term of proposed collective bargaining agreements |
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Decertification |
reverse of the process that employees must follow to be recognized as an official bargaining unit |
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Final offer arbitration |
two basic forms, packaged selection and issue by issue selection |
