ACRONYMS
F.A.B
What is Friendly, Activist and Banker?
The number of Working America members (as described by our website)
What is 3.5 Million?
The promotion of a calm, collected, and reassuring image in the face of stressful situations is known as being this aquatic animal
What is the Duck?
The skill that describes your use of active verbs in your rap and avoids passiveness
What is strong language?
"AFL-CIO" stands for this
What is American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations?
P.D.F
What is Political, Doable and Fun?
The year Working America was founded.
What is 2003?
A good rule of thumb to avoid trampling OVER a coworker's feelings in a workplace dilemma
What is seek first to understand?
Being very intentional and targeted with what language you use, and how you describe each part of the rap
What is Spec?
The government agency that protects the rights of private sector employees to work together to improve their wages and working conditions
What is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
T.D.P.E
What is Teach, Demonstrate, Practice and Evaluate
The city of Working America's headquarters.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The practice of "walking the walk" rather than just "talking the talk"
What is Lead by Example (LBE)?
The skill that describes your emotional regulation on turf, and for 500 bonus points, the shape that relates to what you can affect in your shift when using the first skill
What is mood management, and what is the circle of control?
The 1938 law that established child labor protections, a minimum wage, overtime pay, and record-keeping requirements for employers
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)?
What is Recruit, Train and Develop
The founding director of Working America.
Who is Karen Nussbaum?
Responses designed to learn more about a question or objection to help give you time to evaluate the feedback with intention or control your own feelings about an issue
What is a rescue question?
The skill referenced when describing how many times you knock at a door, and what that number is.
What are door presence and "2"?
A federal agency that was established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
E.P.I.F.U
The president of the AFL-CIO.
Who is Liz Shuler?
Designed to promote equality, this concept may be at the core of the Godfather quote, "It's not personal, it's strictly business."
What is focus on the problem, not the person?
When you know that a door is on your side already before even knocking the door
What is assuming support?
Issues with broad appeal that unions like the AFL shifted toward in the late 1800s and early 1900s, like fair wages, the 40 hour work week, benefits, and safe working conditions
What are bread and butter issues?