Discipline that focuses on the early correction of employee misconduct, with the employee taking total responsibility for correcting the problem.
What is POSITIVE or NONPUNITIVE DISCIPLINE
100
System for reviewing employee complaints
and disputes by successively higher levels of management.
What is STEP-REVIEW SYSTEM
100
The doctrine under which unions have a legal obligation to provide assistance to both members
and nonmembers in labor relations matters.
What is FAIR REPRESENTATION DOCTRINE
100
Arbitration over interpretation of the meaning of contract terms or employee work grievances.
What is RIGHTS ARBITRATION
100
The use of an impartial neutral to reach a compromise decision in employment disputes
What is MEDIATION
200
Is the failure to use a reasonable amount of care when such failure results in injury to another person.
What is NEGLIGENCE
200
Treatment that punishes. Orderly behavior in an organizational setting. Training that molds and strengthens desirable conduct or corrects undesirable conduct and develops self-control.
What is DISCIPLINE
200
Purpose of this act is to avoid service interruptions resulting from disputes between railroads and their operating unions.
What is RAILWAY LABOR ACT OF 1926 (RLA)
200
An employee, as a nonpaid union official, represents the interests of members in their relations with management.
What is UNION STEWARD
200
Complaints to governmental agencies by employees about their employers’ illegal or immoral acts or illegal practices
What is WHISTLE-BLOWING
300
Different types of employee complaint or dispute-resolution procedures used to meet employees’ expectations for fair treatment in the workplace while guaranteeing them due process.
What is ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)
300
When applying corrective measures by increasing degrees.
What is PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE
300
Set the broad guidelines for governing union members and for formulating collective bargaining goals in dealing with management and establishes the rules and conditions under which the local unions may be chartered.
What is NATIONAL UNIONS
300
A group of two or more employees who share common employment interests and conditions and may reasonably be grouped together for purposes of collective bargaining.
What is BARGAINING UNIT
300
The power of labor and management to achieve their goals through economic, social, or political influence.
What is BARGAINING POWER
400
The right of an employer to fire an employee without giving a reason and the right of an employee to quit when he or she chooses.
What is EMPLOYMENT-AT-WILL PRINCIPLE
400
When a promise by the employer suggests some form of job security to the employee.
What is IMPLIED CONTRACT
400
Represent all workers—skilled, semiskilled, unskilled—employed along industry lines
What is INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
400
The process of negotiating a labor agreement, including the use of economic pressures by both parties.
What is COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCESS
400
A policy of settling grievances that identifies various levels of management above the immediate supervisor for employee contact.
What is OPEN-DOOR POLICY
500
Requires organizations with more than 100 employees to give employees and their communities sixty days’ notice of any closure or layoff affecting fifty or more full-time employees.
What is WORKERS’ ADJUSTMENT RETRAINING AND NOTIFICATION ACT OF 1989 (WARN)
500
An employee voluntarily terminates his or her employment because of harsh, unreasonable employment conditions placed on the individual
by the employer.
What is CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE
500
Problem-solving bargaining based on a win-win philosophy and the development of a positive long-term relationship.
What is INTEREST-BASED BARGAINING
500
The legal right and responsibility of the union to represent all bargaining unit members equally, regardless of whether employees join the union
or not.
What is EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATION
500
Safeguards union member rights and prevents racketeering and other unscrupulous practices by employers and union officers.
What is TAFT-HARTLEY ACT OF 1947 (THE LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS ACT)