The Organizing Process Flashcards
The ____ and job conditions within a company may be used by employers to predict the likelihood of their employees desiring unionization.
Work
Explanation:
Work and job conditions is a general category used to describe how the conditions of an employee’s work and the tasks they are required to do may influence their desires to become part of a union. When the employees are unhappy with these conditions, they are more likely to seek union help.
__________ refers to when employees feel that they are not making an important contribution to the end product of their work. Especially in jobs requiring little skill or knowledge, workers gain little or no satisfaction from their work.
Alienation
Explanation:
Feelings of alienation in the workforce tend to leave workers feeling dissatisfied and it has been theorized that it may lead workers to seek collective action, such as joining a union.
_______ consciousness refers to the theory that workers join unions in an attempt to secure their jobs. This revolves around the idea that workers are concerned the jobs are Difficult to obtain and retain. These concerns prompt them to join a union to provide job security.
Scarcity
Employees’ ______ beliefs and desires tend to influence the likelihood that they will desire unionization of their workplace.
Social
Explanation:
A person’s views on unions tend to influence whether they desire union help when work conditions become intolerable. Someone with negative views towards unions may avoid unions and try alternative methods first.
Employees’ attitudes towards unions may be influenced by the attitudes of their parents, or may be strongly affected by previous __________ with a union.
Experience
Explanation:
A negative experience with a union may make an employee less likely to join a union the next time. A negative attitude towards unions held by a worker’s parents may influence the worker to also feel negatively towards unions.
Workers may feel a need for affiliation or belonging, as well as a need for ______ that may be fulfilled through alliance with a union. Unions may satisfy these needs via affecting a worker’s sense of identity and their self-esteem.
Status
The degree to which social affiliation with a union benefits a worker depends to the extent to which the union increases prestige or _________ of the worker. Workers in jobs that are unlikely to provide prestige or advancement may actively seek to join a union in order to achieve a sense of prestige or status.
self-esteem
The likelihood of a union being formed depends strongly on the attitudes of the _________. They need to consider whether their job-related goals will be satisfied through joining a union.
Employees
Explanation:
Employees who feel that their goals will be achieved by joining a union are more likely to support the union. On the other hand, employees who do not share these beliefs and are forced to join a union, tend not to support the union.
The extent to which a _______ campaigns against the integration of a union into their organization can strongly influence its employees’ beliefs about the union.
Company
A strong _________ campaign may influence employees to think that a union within such a company would not be accepted and thus would not be beneficial.
anti-union
Work _______ refers to factors related to the work environment, such as job dissatisfaction and work Conditions, which influence an employee’s decision.
context
Explanation:
Work context may influence whether an employee chooses to join a union or not. Such influences also include pay, benefits, and supervisory effectiveness and style. Dissatisfaction with work context may cause an employee to be inclined to join a union.
________ considerations, such as wage levels at similar work places, the unemployment rate in the industry, and growth rates may all influence an employee’s desire to join a union.
Economic
Explanation:
If economic considerations are pressing for an employee, they will aim to determine whether joining a union will ease the burden. This would influence their decision about whether a union should be in their workplace or not.
The extent to which an employee believes that a union will achieve their desired outcomes, such as improving work and pay conditions, is referred to as union _______________.
Instrumentality
Explanation:
When considering whether or not to join a union, an employee may consider a union’s ability, or likelihood, of achieving the employee’s desires in regards to work context and economic considerations.
The organization of a union within a workplace tends to be initiated by the _________, which is contrary to many employers’ beliefs.
Employees
Explanation:
Unionization tends to start with an employee’s dissatisfaction causing them to look for ways to solve their problems. While employers tend to believe it is the unions that approach employees, it tends to be dissatisfied employees who approach the unions.
The term “_______” refers to union organizers applying for jobs with non-union employers with the aim of organizing the employers’ workforce.
Salting
________ is a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union. A person so employed is called a “salt”. The salt may be paid by the union or may be a volunteer.
Salting
Rather than creating job dissatisfaction, a union organizer begins to form a union for the already existing dissatisfied employees in order to begin __________ action.
Collective
Explanation:
The union organizer responds to an expression of interest from dissatisfied employees and thus they enter a workplace that already has job dissatisfaction. They then begin collective action to solve this dissatisfaction via formation of a union.
Companies are beginning to try to convince their employees that work related problems can be solved __________. However, union organizers are becoming more sophisticated and knowledgeable in regards to the interests and problems of employees, causing the companies to expend more effort.
Internally
Explanation:
Union organizers are beginning to better understand the interests, job expectations, and concerns of employees, making them better able to relate to employees and convince them that their problems will be best resolved through joining a union. As a result, companies are required to spend more effort convincing their employees that they do not need a union and that their problems can be solved by the company.
An important consideration for both union organizers and company management is the fact that individual employees may ______ in their needs.
differ
Explanation:
Although working within the same company, the job-related needs, interests, concerns, and goals of each employee may differ. Therefore, when convincing employees to join or not to join a union, union organizers and management need to take this point into consideration.
The general method for a union to achieve exclusive bargaining agent status is to organize a secret ballot representation ________.
election
The ______________________ considers secret ballot elections the best method to use when establishing a union. However, there are alternative methods.
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
The _____________ Choice Act would allow the use of publicly signed authorization cards instead of the secret ballot to certify unions.
Employee Free