These RN’s are eligible to participate in the union.
What are staff nurses?
100
These have the right to change their unit affiliation or remove the union.
What are members of the bargaining unit?
100
is collective action taken by workers to secure better wages or working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
100
These are formal complaints that are caused by misunderstandings, a lack of familiarity with the contract, or an inadequate labor agreement.
What are grievances’?
100
This person must refrain from any action that could be seen as interfering with the employees’ right to determine their collective bargaining representative.
What is the nurse manager?
200
Between RN’s who are members of a nursing collective bargaining unit and ones who are not, these RN’s are more satisfied with their wages.
What are RN collective bargaining unit members?
200
These are two reasons why nurses join unions.
What are dissatisfactions with working conditions, dissatisfactions with administration, concerns about practice environment, and concerns about quality care?
200
These are two places that unions can solicit members and distribute literature.
What are hospital cafeterias, gift shops, and main lobbies?
200
If grievance is not adjusted after conversation, a written request for next step is given to supervisor within this amount of days.
What is 10 days?
200
The manager must not do this to individual staff members based on the outcomes of the election.
What is making promises or threats?
300
These are two types of RN’s that are not eligible to participate in the union.
What are the Nurse Managers, Charge Nurses, and RNs working outside of the traditional nursing department, such as a clinic, home health care, or in education?
300
This is the number of times the NLRB will return to the same work site for the same group.
What is once a year?
300
This sector considered wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of work considered mandatory subjects.
What is the private sector?
300
This is how many nurses view a strike.
What is unprofessional?
300
The manager must not question staff about this.
What is the staffs’ knowledge of collective bargaining?
400
These are two things that nonmembers of a nursing collective bargaining unit are more satisfied with than members are.
What is nursing supervision, patient care, work setting, professional relationships, and overall job satisfaction?
400
This is whom the union petitions to conduct an election.
What is the NLRB?
400
This sector has a narrower scope of mandatory subjects of bargaining and Legislators determine the appropriate subjects.
What is the public sector?
400
These are two contingencies to protect the nursing image during a strike.
What is a 10 day notice and a schedule to cover the ER, OR, and ICU?
400
The manager must be aware of this described by the NLRA.
What are unfair labor practices?
500
This act allowed nurses and other employers of private, for-profit health care institutions protection.
What is the National Labor Relations Act in 1935?
500
This is the percentage of members of the bargaining unit must submit signatures to the NLRB to change or remove the union.
What is 30%?
500
These are three of the mandatory subjects of bargaining.
What is the rate of pay, wages, hours, conditions of employment, and grievance procedures?
500
This is invoked when no solution suggested is acceptable in the grievance process.
What is arbitration?
500
These are two of the four classified grievances that a manager is responsible to help solve.
What are contract violations, violations of federal or state law, failure of management to meet its responsibilities, and violation of agency rules?