Ch 10 Flashcards
Wages, working conditions, and many other aspects of the work environment are directly influenced by?
Labor-management relations
This is a negotiated legal agreement between the labor organization and the local jurisdiction.
A labor contract
This is a less powerful form of written agreement that is often used in jurisdiction where government employees do not have formal collective-bargaining rights.
Memorandum of understanding (MOU)
This is the method whereby representatives of employees (unions) and employers determine the conditions of employment through direct negotiations; such negotiation normally results in a written contract setting forth the wages, hours, and other conditions to be observed for a stipulated period.
Collective-bargaining
A union member who is appointed or elected to be the first line of labor representation at the workplace.
Shop steward
The basis for a strong, positive, any Factive supervisor back/employee relationship is _______, ______, & _______ _______ between the fire officer and a firefighter.
Open, honest, and constant communications
This is the intervention of a neutral third-party in an industrial dispute.
Mediation
The basic authority of a supervisor and the duties of subordinate are defined by the ______ _______ of the city or a governmental organization, as well as a specific ______&______, and ________ of the fire department.
Personnel rules
Rules and regulations, and procedures
The formal line between labor and management is often the stabilized at a higher level, such as?
Administrative fire officer
I as a supervisor, a fire of her is generally the _____________between the workers and the fire department organization.
First point of contact
This is a dispute, claim, or complaint that any employee or a group of employees may have about the interpretation, application, or alleged violation of some provision of the labor agreement or personnel regulations.
A grievance
This is a formal structured process that is employed within an organization to resolve a grievance. In most cases, this is incorporated in the personnel rules or labor agreement and specifies a series of steps that must be followed in a particular order.
Grievance procedure
The grievance procedure should specify a _________ & a ________ to move through the steps.
Sequential process and a timeline
This ensures that a grievance will not remain stalled at any level for in excess of time.
The timeline
The employees union representative usually becomes formally involved either the ______ or ________ of the grievance process.
First or second step
The objective (when handling grievances) should always be to resolve the problem at the _____________ and in the _________.
Lowest possible level and in the shortest possible time
The most important responsibility for a fire officer is to ______&____________ that apply in his or her organization.
Know and follow the procedures
The Grievant presents his or her complaint verbally to a supervisor, shortly after the occurrence of the action that gave rise to the grievance. In some organizations, this non-documented verbal notification is called an “_______ _____” or ____ ____.
Informal grievance or step zero.
The second step initiates the ______ part of a grievance procedure. If the problem is not resolved at step one, the employee may prepare and submit a _____________. This is usually submitted on a specified grievance form document.
Formal
Written grievance
The _____, the ________, and the ________ all receive a copy of the grievance.
The employee, the employees supervisor, and the personnel office
A _________ grievance is submitted to a second-level supervisor, typically an administrative fire officer, who has 10 calendar days to respond.
Step 3 grievance
If the grievance remains unresolved, the grievant can present it to the ________or the ______ as the fourth step.
Fire Chief or designee
Collective-bargaining is regulated by a complex system of?
Federal and state legislation
_______________ establishes a basic framework that applies to all workers, and the states have discretionary powers to adopt labor laws and regulations that do not violate the_________.
Federal legislation
Federal requirements
______________ Provides a set of guidelines for how each state or Commonwealth can regulate collective-bargaining.
The federal legislation
Firefighters employed by local government agencies are subject to state law that can _____,_______, or _____ collective-bargaining for the local public employees
Require, permit, or prohibit
Before federal laws that regulate the collective-bargaining system or the:
Norris-LaGuardia act of 1932
Wagner-Connery act of 1935
Taft-Hartley labor act of 1947
Landrum-Griffin act of 1959
Specified that an employee could not be forced into a contract by an employer as part of obtaining and keeping a job.
Norris-LaGuardia act of 1932
Some employers required workers to sign a pledge that they would not join a union as long as the company employed them; these pledges were called?
Yellow dog contracts
This establish the procedures that are commonly called collective-bargaining.
Also forms the basis of formal labor relations in the United States. It grants workers the right to decide, by majority vote, which organization will represent them at the labor-management bargaining table.
Wagner-Connery act
The Wagner-Connery act defined five types of unfair labor practice is in the clear them illegal:
- Interfering with employees in a union
- Stopping a union from forming and collecting money
- Not hiring union members
- Firing union members
- Refusing to bargain with the union
Is the act of withholding labor for the purposes of effecting a change in wages, hours, or working conditions-is one of the most drastic labor actions.
Strike
In the private sector the __________ is often the ultimate victim of a strike, through a combination of inconvenience and economic impact.
Consumer
Most of the firefighter strikes were efforts to establish a __-_________,_____________, or simply gain the right to form a labor organization that would be recognized by the municipality.
Two-platoon system
Obtain more pay
Many IAFF local unions were able to gain a two-platoon schedule and/or a pay raise by threatening to?
Strike
Today, most meanest for firefighters work between _____ and ____ hours per week.
42 and 56
The workweek for most federal military firefighters still exceeds ___ hours.
60
Occurs when the parties have reached a deadlock in negotiations.
Impasse
The primary purpose of FLSA was to establish minimum standards for _____ and to spell out administrative procedures covering __________ and __________, including ___________.
Wages
Work time and compensation
Overtime entitlement
This is a special-interest group that can solicit funding and lobby local and national elected officials on behalf of its cause.
Political action committee
PAC
In addition to political action, the IAFF has developed strategic labor-management alliances with the ____ too promote mutually __________.
IAFC
agreeable goals
A standardize physical ability test that has been validated as an assessment of a firefighter candidate’s physical ability to perform the critical tasks of the firefighter.
Candidate physical ability test
CPAT
