second exam Flashcards
The group of employees determined by the NLRB to be an appropriate unit for collective bargaining purposes. After a bargaining unit is identified, the employees of that unit have the right to select their bargaining representative, usually a labor union.
Bargaining unit determination
The particular group of employees represented by the union in collective bargaining.
Bargaining unit
The basic underlying principle for the NLRB’s determination of an appropriate unit that only employees having a substantial mutuality of interest in wages, hours, and working conditions can be appropriately grouped in that unit.
Appropriate unit
price of labor, work rules, hours of work, job classification, Effort required, enforcement and administrative procedures, management and union rights.
Terms of employment
Composed exclusively of workers having a recognized skill. Distinct from others in the unit by virtue of the skilled, non-repetitive nature of its work.
craft unions
Composed of the members of one department in a larger organization. Separate units created after examining differences in skills, training, degree of common supervision, interchange with employees outside the department, and performance rating system.
Departmental units
A petitioned-for single-facility unit is presumed to be an appropriate bargaining unit if unit has a separate identity.
One employer, multiple locations
Group of related employers and representatives of their workers.
multi-employer units
Odd collections of workers with common work situations of proximity of work sites.
residual units
Group that are separate from primary production and maintenance units.
Remaining units
- 1974 Health-care Amendments
2. NLRB approved 8 basic health care units
construction industry units
“One craft, one union”
members organized on the basis of craft or skill
stringent apprenticeship programs
business agents
Craft Unions
Full-time administrator
Contract administration
Hiring hall
Business agents
Eyes and ears of the business agent
Stewards
“one shop, one union”
Organizes all workers at one workplace, regardless of job.
Industrial unions
