module 2-3

Question 1

business unionism

Answer 1

a type of trade union that is opposed to class or revolutionary unionism and has the principle that unions should be run like businesses

Question 2

constructive dismissal

Answer 2

occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is, in effect, a termination.

Question 3

craft unions

Answer 3

trade union combining workers who are engaged in a particular craft or skill but who may work for various employers and at various locations

Question 4

economic environment

Answer 4

all the economic factors that affect commercial and consumer behavior. The economic environment consists of all the external factors in the immediate marketplace and the broader economy. These factors can influence a business, i.e., how it operates and how successful it might become.

Question 5

employee relations

Answer 5

organization’s efforts to create and maintain a positive relationship with its employees.

Question 6

human resources management

Answer 6

concerned with hiring, motivating, and maintaining workforce in an organization

Question 7

industrial relations

Answer 7

multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations and the state.

Question 8

industrial unions

Answer 8

trade union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.

Question 9

just cause

Answer 9

employer must have a reason

Question 10

labour relations

Answer 10

refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it

Question 11

legal environment

Answer 11

refers to all the legal surroundings that affect project activities. It consists of an array of acts, rules, regulations. It defines what projects can and cannot do.

Question 12

political environment

Answer 12

can impact business organizations in many ways. It could add a risk factor and lead to a major loss. You should understand that the political factors have the power to change results. It can also affect government policies at local to federal level.

Question 13

Privy Council Order 1003

Answer 13

granting to Canadian workers collective-bargaining rights that American workers already enjoyed under the Wagner Act

Question 14

reasonable notice

Answer 14

Amount of time before quitting / firing

Question 15

social environment

Answer 15

sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops.

Question 16

social unionism

Answer 16

generally understood to involve both engagement with social justice struggles beyond the workplace and methods of union activity beyond the collective bargaining process, is claimed to increase the labour movement’s organizing capacity, bargaining power, and social and political weight.

Question 17

technological environment

Answer 17

How technology alters work palce

Question 18

Wagner Act

Answer 18

model of labour relations permits a sufficiently large sector of employees to choose to associate themselves with a particular trade union and, if necessary, to decertify a union that fails to serve their needs.

Question 19

wrongful dismissal

Answer 19

Dismissed for wrong reasons
situation in which an employee’s contract of employment has been terminated by the employer, where the termination breaches one or more terms of the contract of employment, or a statute provision or rule in employment law.

Question 20

yellow dog contract

Answer 20

an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union.

Question 21

business agent

Answer 21

an individual who manages another person’s, company’s, or group’s business affairs

Question 22

directly chartered union

Answer 22

a local union that has received a charter directly from a labour congress and is not part of a national or international union

Question 23

independent local unions

Answer 23

Unions that do not belong to a national or international union, such as faculty associations at some universities

Question 24

international union

Answer 24

has members in more than one country

Question 25

labour council

Answer 25

an association of unions in a municipality or region, such as the Vancouver and District Labour Council. These councils work to improve their communities as well as to advance the interests of unions at the regional or municipal level.

Question 26

labour federation or labour congress

Answer 26

An association of unions “umbrella organizations”

Question 27

national union

Answer 27

it refers to a union whose membership is confined to Canada, although it may not have members in all provinces

Question 28

parent union

Answer 28

Union that oversees other unions

Question 29

Raiding

Answer 29

refers to one union persuading members of another union to change unions.

Question 30

right-to-work legislation

Answer 30

These laws mean that employees who work at a unionized workplace and do not support the union or do not want to be part of the union can opt out of paying dues

Question 31

social contract legislation

Answer 31

the dimension of the Canadian federation that emphasizes the social community shared by Canadians, focusing on such things as social justice, interregional and interpersonal equity, role of government in society, and the relationship between governmental provision of social services and programmes and Canadian identity.

Question 32

Trusteeship

Answer 32

Parent union temporarily taking direct control of one of its union locals

Question 33

union coverage

Answer 33

percentage of employee covered by collective agreement including those who do not become union memebrs

Question 34

union density

Answer 34

percentage of non-agricultural workers who are union members.

Question 35

union local

Answer 35

an administrative unit of a national or international union organization.

Question 36

Union

Answer 36

an organization, external to and also within a work setting, that has the primary objective of improving the compensation and working conditions of the employees it represents