Ch. 1: Intro to CB
Ch. 2: Private Sector Law&History
Ch. 3: Public Sector Law&History
Ch. 4: Est. Bargaining Unit and Organizing Campaign
Ch. 5&6: Negotiations
100
A written and signed document between an employer entity and a labor organization specifying the terms and conditions of employment for a specified period of time.
What is a collective bargaining agreement.
100
An independent agency of the federal government that serves to investigate unfair labor practices, determine appropriate bargaining units, certify unions that legally represent a majority of employees, and administer the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act.
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
100
Act that gives federal employee the right to join or not join unions and to engage in collective bargaining and created the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
What is the Federal Labor Relations Act or The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978?
100
The process of removing a union as the certified representative of employees within a bargaining unit using a secret-ballot election.
What is a decertification election?
100
In negotiations, using the distributive bargaining process, this is the most desired outcome or objective a negotiator sets for an issue. The negotiator would prefer to end the negotiation at this point and would accept an offer.
What is a target point?
200
any employee committee or other organization of any kind in which employees deal with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, hours, or working conditions.
What is a labor organization?
200
states that have the right to outlaw union shop requirements in collective bargaining agreements so employees can refrain from joining the union representing them at the bargaining table.
What are right to work states?
200
The first declared national strike against the federal government that resulted in the firing of all striking workers.
What is the professional air traffic controllers' (PATCO) strike?
200
A movement initiated by dissatisfied employees or a union organizer to submit a representation petition to the NLRB and win a representation election, thus providing union certification and collective bargaining.
What is an organizing drive?
200
A negotiation method in which both sides seek ways to integrate the interests of both sides into mutually agreeable options.
What is integrative bargaining?
300
a labor union whose membership is composed primarily of semiskilled or unskilled workers, such as automobile workers and steelworkers, who are organized on the basis of the product they produce.
What is an industrial union?
300
A U.S. labor leader, founder, and first president of the American Federation of Labor who believed that unions should focus on economic goals, bringing about change through strikes and boycotts.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
While private sector employees are guaranteed this right, public sector employees are generally denied this right.
What is the right to strike?
300
Criteria used by the NLRB to evaluate a group of employees and determine whether they constitute an appropriate bargaining unit, including; similarity of jobs, and wages & benefits; degree of contact and proximity; and common supervision.
What is community of interest?
300
Legal strike where employees strike over the failure to negotiate economic issues such as wages, benefits, or other conditions of employment. Also, the employer is able to replace strikers permanently and need only reinstate those for whom it has vacant positions.
What is an economic strike?
400
These rights allow an employee to have a union representative present during investigatory meetings when discipline may result.
What are weingarten rights?
400
The bitter and violent strike involving railroad workers from Maryland to Missouri who protested 10 percent wage cuts after a 35% cut years earlier.
What is the Railway Strike of 1877?
400
The sharing of governmental power between the federal and state governments. All powers not granted to the federal government are reserved for the states.
What is dual sovereignty?
400
A private, confidential vote by employee, overseen by the NLRB, which allows employees to cast their vote for or against union representation confidentially.
What is a secret-ballot representation election?
400
Action an employer may take by withholding employment to resist union demands or force concessions from the union.
What is a lockout?
500
Higher wages representation in discipline/discharge cases greater job security better health care, pension, and paid time-off benefits
What are pros of union membership?
500
Law designed to limit the court's injunctive powers against labor organizations and was designed to limit the use of Sherman Antitrust Act in labor disputes.
What is The Clayton Act?
500
Public sector employees were originally give the right to unionize with Executive Order 10988. Which president signed this order?
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
500
Misrepresentation of facts, threats and loss of benefits, promises or grants of benefits, interrogation and polling of employees, and surveillance.
What is prohibited conduct during an election.
500
union security agreement that requires employers to hire only union members. Made illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act
What is a closed shop?
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