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12 Cards in this Set
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labor union
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workers who organize against their employers to seek better wages and working conditions
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labor strike
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workers stop working until conditions are met
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boycott
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people who refuse to buy a company's product
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scab worker
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new immigrants who would replace strikers and work for less pay
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picketing
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people demonstrating with signs outside a business in hopes of change
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blacklist
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list of people disliked by business owners because they were leader in the union. often would loose their jobs, beaten up, or even killed
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collective bargaining
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face to face negotiating to discus the issues
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yellow dog contracts
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a written contract between employers and employees in which the employees sign an agreement that they will not join a union while working for the company
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lock out
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owner of the industry would "lock out" workers who were trying to form a union and replace them with "scabs"
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injunction
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a law commanding a person to go back to work
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closed shop
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a place where only people belonging to the union are hired
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open shop
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a place where anyone can be hired, union or not union
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