Under this provision, the employer pledges not to oppose organizing attempts elsewhere in the company.
What is the Neutrality provision?
100
According to Walton and McKersie, labor-management bargaining that focuses on dividing a fixed economic pie between two sides.
What is Distributive Bargaining?
100
The introduction of a union may have “this” effect on management, pressuring it into tightening standards and accountability and paying greater heed to employee input in the design and management of production.
What is Shock effect?
200
In a union setting, pay is most frequently based on this.
What is Seniority?
200
These rules do not require union membership but do require that employees who choose to join must remain members for a certain period of time.
What are Maintenance of Membership rules?
200
Held if more than one union appears on the ballot and neither gains a simple majority.
What is a runoff election?
200
According to Walton and McKersie, integrative bargaining has this kind of focus.
What is Win-Win?
200
A union provides an independent employee ______, one aspect of union representation that employers cannot duplicate or substitute.
What is Voice?
300
Most union contact is with this person, who is responsible for ensuring that the terms of the collective bargaining contract are enforced.
Who is the Shop Steward?
300
This type of union security provision is illegal under provisions of the NLRA. Explain what a closed shop is.
What is a Closed Shop? Explain what a closed shop is.
300
These seek to bring public, financial, or political pressure on employers during the organizing process.
What are Corporate Campaigns?
300
Most widely used type of impasse resolution procedure.
What is Mediation?
300
The unfair labor practice most frequently filed against employers.
What is Refusal to bargain by the employer?
400
This type of union security arrangement requires a person to join the union within a certain amount of time after being hired.
What is Union Shop?
400
This series of Supreme Court decisions in 1960established that the courts should essentially refrain from reviewing the merits of arbitrators' decisions.
What are The Steelworkers Trilogy?
400
this kind of election is not permitted by the NLRB when a contract is in effect.
What is a Decertification election?
What is decertification? How do unions typically fare in decertification elections?
400
Outside intervention in negotiation in which an arbitrator (or arbitration board) intervenes in the actual writing or setting of contract terms.
What is Interest arbitration?
400
This Act of 1978 established the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
What is The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, Title VII?
500
An important characteristic of a union is whether it is a craft or industrial union. In this type of union, members all work in the same industry.
What is Industrial?
How is this different from a craft union? Give examples of each.
500
Legislation that focuses on the internal affairs of unions and their leaders.
What is The Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959?
500
Percent of employers in a bargaining unit that must sign authorization cards for the NLRB to hold a union representation election.
What is 30% ?
What percent of employees must vote in favor of the union for the union to be certified by the NLRB as the exclusive representative of employees?
500
Labor-management contracts can vary depending on whether they cover multiple employers or multiple plants within a single employer. Name at least one industry where multi-employer contracts prevail.