Investigations
The employee can't remember the legal term for this right, but asks to have a union representative present during the investigatory interview. Name the term for this “right”.
What is Weingarten?
A grievance concerns a violation of this document.
What is the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)?
Union Representatives/Stewards are legally required to be truthful in their communications with management. They must also represent the CBA and their members accurately to management.
True or False?
False
A group of workers in a given workplace who bargain collectively with their employer. The unit is usually determined by the National Labor Relations Board, or agreed upon jointly by the union and employer.
BARGAINING UNIT
What is the name of the character who plays the HR rep in The Office.
Toby
The term used for an employee refusing to cooperate in an investigation.
What is insubordination?
If an employee refuses a drug test when management has reasonable suspension to believe he/she is under the influence, what should management do?
What is call security?
Union employees may request information pertaining to a fellow union member.
True or False?
False
Only Stewards may request information and it must be relevant.
A legal way of bringing collective pressure against an employer by discouraging use of the employer’ s products or services.
BOYCOTT
In this 2019 film, Robert Di Niro plays a Teamster.
The Irishman
Employees do not have a legal right to have a union representative present at these types of meetings.
What are disciplinary meetings (When the discipline is issued to an employee)?
Either the union or management can request this during grievance meetings in order to get time to speak with their sides privately.
What is requesting a caucus?
A union must represent all of its members, even when an employee has violated policy because the union wants to meet this legal obligation to employees in the bargaining unit. What is this duty called?
Duty of Fair Representation
The process by which the employer, worker leaders in the union, and union representatives negotiate the bargaining unit’s conditions of employment — such as wages, hours, and working conditions — for a set period of time. The result of the process is a legal contract, also called a collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
The name of an inflatable rat that unions may use during strikes/protests as a mascot.
Scabby the Rat
While union stewards may request information from the employer, the employer has the right to ask for the relevancy of the information requested.
True or False?
True
Union employees have the right to refuse directive from management if they believe it is a violation of the CBA.
True or False?
False
Employees are expected to follow management directives. If an employee believes the directive to be unfair or a violation of the contract, he/she can file a grievance at a later date.
Management cannot discipline union stewards for their actions because it would be seen as retaliation.
True or False?
False
Usually a protest activity where workers carry signs and march in a circle. It can occur during a strike or it can be an informational designed to inform the public about a labor dispute.Engaging in an activity can have certain legal consequences.
PICKETING
During Bobby Kennedy's tenure as the US Attorney General, he made it his mission to send this union president to prison.
Jimmy Hoffa
In union settings, the employer must have a reason to act in disciplining an employee and the reason must be just and fair. In non-union workplaces, the employee is an at-will worker and can be disciplined or fired for whatever reason or no reason at all.
“JUST CAUSE”
A formal complaint filed by a union member usually alleging a violation, misapplication, or misinterpretation of the bargaining unit’s contract.
GRIEVANCE
A method of settling a labor-management dispute by having an impartial third party hold a formal hearing, take testimony, and render a final and usually binding decision.
Arbitration
Directed by Norman Jewison, starring Sylvester Stallone as the rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker who rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.
F.I.S.T., 1978