Labor Law
Negotiations and agreements between management and labor about wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
What is collective bargaining? Page 795
What is a yellow dog contract? page 796
Union pressure on management created by getting others who do business with management to cease.
What is a secondary boycott? page 797
The start of ____ ____ ___ saw the first real movement away from antiunion sentiment.
What is World War I? page 798
Factors employees have in common for bargaining purposes
What is community of interests? Page 803
The group of employees in a workplace that have the legal right to bargain with the employer
What is a bargaining unit? page 803
Union member chosen as an intermediary between union members and employers
What is a shop steward? page 804
A court order requiring individuals or groups of persons to refrain from performing certain acts that the court has determined will do irreparable harm
What is an Injunction? page 796
Negotiated contract between labor and management
What is a collective bargaining agreement? page 804
The representative of a union, usually a craft union
What is a business agent? page 805
employer hires only union members
What is a closed shop? page 808
Union organized across an industry, regardless of members' job type.
What is an industrial union? page 805
Unions organized by the employee's craft or trade.
Wages, hours, and other conditions of employment, which, by law, must be negotiated between labor and management.
Collective bargaining negotiations during the term of the contract rather than at its expiration.
What are midterm negotiations? page 811
A strike not sanctioned by the union
What is a wildcat strike? page 813
Management does not allow employees to come to work.
What is a lockout? page 814
Permits employees to choose not to become a part of the union
What are Right-to-Work laws? page 817
Bargaining unit employees who do not pay union dues but whom the union is still obligated to represent
What are Free Riders? Page 818
What is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)? page 802
The law requires only that the parties bargain in _____ ______ about appropriate matters, not that one party necessarily agree with the other's position and include it in the collective bargaining agreement
What is good faith? page 809
This law was enacted as an amendment to the NLRA to curb excess by unions.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947? page 815
This act was passed in response to congressional investigations into union corruption from 1957 to 1959. After finding evidence of this corruption, the law passed.
What is the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959? page 820
This act established the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to administer federal sector labor law.
What is the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978? page 821