Introduction
Withholding labor by workers.
What is a strike?
What is the NLRA?
A clause in a union contract that prevents employers from handling goods from non-union or disputing companies.
What is a hot cargo clause?
The Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1947 to restrict power of these organizations, which represent workers in collective bargaining.
What are labor unions?
True or false. A lockout is when employees move back and forth on company property.
What is false? (that is patrolling)
Rights that Section 7 of the NLRA grant. (name one)
What is
- right to self organize
- form unions
- bargain collectively
- engage in strikes
The use of third party businesses or individuals by a union to apply pressure on a primary employer during a labor dispute.
What is the ally doctrine?
Under the Taft-Hartley Act, individual states were given the right to pass these types of law, which prohibit compulsory union membership as a condition of employment.
What are right-to-work laws?
What is Section 8(g)?
The difference between public and private sector employee's right to strike.
What is the difference where public employee's may not have the right to strike due to state laws and the need to protect public services and private employees are protected under Section 7 of the NLRA?
What is public are protected and public not always?
The two factors that are allowed regarding secondary boycotts
What is primary picketing and consumer boycotts?
One controversial provision of the Taft-Hartley Act outlawed this type of workplace agreement, which required workers to join a union before being hired.
Impact of strikes/picketing on employees. (Name 2)
What is...
Increased bargaining power
Sense of unity and public awareness
Lost wages/income
Risk of job loss or retaliation
Distress from conflict
Restriction placed on the federal courts by the Norris-La Guardia Act.
What is issuing injunctions to stop strikes, picketing, or other labor activities unless them employer has met all legal obligations related to the dispute?
The case that has lead to hot cargo clauses being illegal.
What is the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959?
The Taft-Hartley Act amended this 1935 labor lw, which originally gave workers broad rights to unionize and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act (NLRA)?
Must indicate a time, place, and date to this organization when reporting a strike/picketing for healthcare workers.
What is the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)?
Regulations that states can impose on picketing during labor disputes. (name one)
What is
- enforce time, place, and manner restrictions
- restrict secondary picketing that targets business not involved in the dispute
- CANNOT ban peaceful picketing (1st amendment)
The strike that highlighted issues related to labor rights and corporate response to unionization efforts within the service industry.
What is the Starbucks worker's strike 2024?
This section of the Taft-Hartley Act allows the President of the United States to seek an 80-day injunction to prevent strikes that could endanger national health or safety.
What is Section 208 (National Emergency Strikes provision)?