Chapter 11 Flashcards
Organizations that exist to represent the interests of employees in the
workplace and to ensure fair treatment when conflicts arise between one or more
employee and management.
Labor unions
The process in which labor union leadership enters into good
faith negotiations with management representatives over terms of employment such as
work hours, pay, and job security.
Collective bargaining
Written documents that describe the terms of
employment reached between management and unions.
Collective bargaining agreement
Laws that prohibit management and unions from entering into
agreements requiring union membership as a condition of employment.
Right-to-work laws
Basic element in the structure of the U.S. labor movement.
Local union
Bargaining unit, such as the Carpenters and Joiners union, which is
typically composed of members of a particular trade or skill in a specific locality.
Craft union:
Bargaining unit that generally consists of all the workers in a
particular plant or group of plants.
Industrial union
Oranization composed of local unions, which it charters
National union
Central trade union federation in the United States.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFLCIO)
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Union federation consisting of seven unions that broke from
the AFL-CIO and formally launched a rival labor federation representing about 6 million
workers from 7 labor unions.
Change to Win Coalition
Laws that prohibit management and unions from entering into
agreements requiring union membership as a condition of employment.
Right-to-work laws
Political arm of the AFL-CIO.
Committee on Political Education (COPE)
Process of training union organizers to apply for jobs at a company and,
once hired, working to unionize employees
Union salting
Process of the union inundating communities with organizers
to target a particular business.
Flooding the community
Labor maneuvers that do not coincide with a strike or an
organizing campaign to pressure an employer for better wages, benefits, and the like
Public awareness campaigns
Organizing approach by labor in which employees sign a nonsecret card of
support if they want unionization, and if 50 percent of the workforce plus one worker
signs a card, the union is formed.
Card check
The NLRB is a federal agency that administers the National Labor
Relations Act.
www. nlrb.gov
Group of employees, not necessarily union members, recognized by an
employer or certified by an administrative agency as appropriate for representation by a
labor organization for purposes of collective bargaining.
Bargaining unit
Document indicating that an employee wants to be represented by a
labor organization in collective bargaining
Authorization card
Bargaining issues that fall within the definition of wages,
hours, and other terms and conditions of employment
Mandatory bargaining issues
Issues that may be raised, but neither side may insist that
they be bargained over.
Permissive bargaining issues
Issues that are statutorily outlawed from collective
bargaining.
Prohibited bargaining issues
Arrangement making union membership a prerequisite for employment
Closed shop
Requirement that all employees become members of the union after aspecified period of employment (the legal minimum is 30 days) or after a union shop
provision has been negotiated.
Union shop
Employees who are members of the union when the labor
agreement is signed or who later voluntarily join must continue their memberships until
the termination of the agreement, as a condition of employment.
Maintenance of membership
Labor agreement provision requiring, as a condition of employment, that
each nonunion member of a bargaining unit pay the union the equivalent of membership
dues as a service charge in return for the union acting as the bargaining agent.
Agency shop
Employment on equal terms to union members and nonmembers alike.
Open shop
Agreement by which a company agrees to withhold union dues from
members’ paychecks and to forward the money directly to the union
Checkoff of dues
Employee’s dissatisfaction or feeling of personal injustice relating to his or
her employment
Grievance
Formal, systematic process that permits employees to express
complaints without jeopardizing their jobs.
Grievance procedure
An individual who is both an official of the union and a company
employee who represents and defends the interests of fellow employees
Union steward
The length of time an employee has been associated with the company,
division, department, or job.
Seniority
Demands that the union does not expect management to meet
when they are first made.
Beachhead demands
Neutral third party enters the negotiations and attempts to facilitate a
resolution to a labor dispute when a bargaining impasse has occurred
Mediation
Process in which a dispute is submitted to an impartial third party for a
binding decision; basically acts as a judge and jury
Arbitration
Arbitration involving disputes over the interpretation and application
of the various provisions of an existing contract
Rights arbitration
Arbitration that involves disputes over the terms of proposed
collective bargaining agreements.
Interest arbitration:
Action by union members who refuse to work in order to exert pressure on
management in negotiations
Strike
Agreement by union members to refuse to use or buy the firm’s products.
Boycott
Union attempt to encourage third parties (such as suppliers and
customers) to stop doing business with a firm; declared illegal by the Taft-Hartley Act.
Secondary boycott
Management decision to keep union workers out of the workplace and run the
operation with management personnel or replacements.
Lockout
An arbitration procedure is used in the public sector whereby
the arbitrator must select one party’s offer either as a package or issue-by-issue selection
Final-offer arbitration
Reverse of the process that employees must follow to be recognized as
an official bargaining unit.
Decertification
Elon:
Besos and Zuckerberg:
Benevolent
Exploitative
