Organization: Employee and Labor Relations Flashcards
Work stoppages at union contract operations that have not been sanctioned by the union.
Wildcat strike
Situation in which workers slow processes by performing tasks exactly to specifications or according to job or task descriptions.
Work-to-rule
Reporting of an organization’s violations of policies and processes by employees.
Whistleblowing
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; also called labor union.
Trade union
Violation of employee rights; act prohibited under labor relations statutes.
Unfair labor practice (ULP)
Action taken in support of another union that is striking the employer.
Sympathy strike
Umbrella term for the various approaches and techniques, other than litigation, that can be used to resolve a dispute.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Method of dispute resolution by which disputing parties agree to be bound by the decision of one or more impartial persons to whom they submit their dispute for final determination.
Arbitration
Form of corrective discipline that implements increasingly sever penalties for employees.
Constructive discipline
Orderly way to resolve difference of opinion.
Grievance procedure
Various forms of collective employee actions taken to protest work conditions or employer actions.
Industrial actions
Group of workers who coordinate their activities to achieve common goals in their relationship with an employer or group of employers; also call trade union.
Labor union
Action of an employer to shut down operations to prevent employees from working.
Lockout
Method of nonbinding dispute resolution by which a neutral third party tries to help disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable decision; also called conciliation.
Mediation
Positioning of employees at a place of work targeted for the action for the purpose of protest.
Picketing
