Book Part 3

Question 1

________ out of ________ people have developmental disabilities

Answer 1

1 out of 100

Question 2

Seven significant factors that led to public sector collective bargaining

Answer 2

1. Needs of labor organizations
2. Reduction of legal barriers
3. Police frustration but received lack of support for their war on crime
4. Personnel practices in police agencies
5. Salaries & benefits
6. Violence directed at the police
7. The success of other groups

Question 3

The impact of police unions on the community

Answer 3

1. The impact on discipline and accountability
2. The impact on the police subculture
3. Impact on city or county finances
4. The impact on politics

Question 4

Code of silence

Answer 4

Refusal of officers to testify against other officers who are accused of misconduct

Question 5

How many states have the State Police Officer’s Bill of Rights?

Answer 5

14

Question 6

Negotiation between an employer and a labor union, usually regarding issues such as wages, benefits, hours and working conditions.

Answer 6

Collective bargaining

Question 7

A judgment made by a neutral third-party to settle a dispute between labor and management, in which both parties agree in advance to abide by the result.

Answer 7

Binding arbitration

Question 8

3 General types of binding arbitration laws

Answer 8

1. Issue by Issue Law
2. Final Offer
3. Total Package

Question 9

Meet & Confer Model

Answer 9

Referred to by some as collective begging because the laws or agreements establishing it confer little or no rights on employees. In the meet and confer model least friendly to employees, neither the employer nor the employees are required to meet. Such meetings are an opportunity, not a requirement.

Question 10

The model for police sector collective-bargaining law in which collective-bargaining is not statutorily required by the state

Answer 10

Bargaining not required model

Question 11

Public Employment Relations Commission

Answer 11

And administrative body, often on a state level, responsible for administering or legislation related to union bargaining

Question 12

A labor organization can waive the right to bargain over changes in past practices by:

Answer 12

1. Inaction

2. Contract

Question 13

The union begins an organizing drive working to get _____% of the class(es) Of employees it seeks to represent to sign authorization cards.

Answer 13

30

Question 14

Once the goal is reached, the union notifies the police department and an election is held and union must get _______% officers to prevail.

Answer 14

50% plus 1

Question 15

For bargaining purposes, the union will have categorized each clause in the proposed contract as:

Answer 15

1. Expendable
2. Trade-off
3. Negotiable
4. Non-negotiable

Question 16

Management will respond to the union’s proposal by indicating which clauses it has:

Answer 16

1. Accepted
2. Excepted with minor modifications
3. Rejected
4. Counter proposal

Question 17

Grievance

Answer 17

And official expression of dissatisfaction brought by employee or an employee organization as the initial step toward resolution through a formal procedure

Question 18

Arbitration hearing is ________, With more relaxed rules of evidence

Answer 18

Quasi-judicial

Question 19

In a grievance, burden of proof is on whom?

Answer 19

Grieving party

Question 20

Burden of proof in discipline cases is on whom?

Answer 20

Employer

Question 21

The largest single category of grievances cases, about 90%, are those involving what?

Answer 21

Discipline against an officer

Question 22

Job action

Answer 22

A label used to describe several types of activities in which employees may engage to express their dissatisfaction with a particular person, event, or condition or to attempt to influence the outcome of a matter pending before decision makers, such as a contract bargaining impasse

Question 23

Vote of confidence

Answer 23

Reflects how rank and file members signal their collective displeasure with the chief administrator of their agency

Question 24

4 types of job actions

Answer 24

1. Vote of confidence
2. Work slowdowns
3. Work speed ups
4. Work stoppage

Question 25

Blue flu

Answer 25

A job action in which officers organize mass absences on the pretext of sickness for the purpose of protest against their employer