Weingarten Rights
These rights, established by the Supreme Court, grant union-represented employees the right to have a union representative present during investigatory interviews with management.
What are Weingarten Rights?
An organization of workers who band together to protect and promote their interests by collectively bargaining with employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions
What is a labor union?
These individuals helped unionize the largest Planned Parenthood in California, all while providing incredible reproductive healthcare during a crisis - hint: you're one of them!
Who are PPPSW employees?
Also known as a union contract, this is a legally binding agreement between an employer and a union that outlines the terms and conditions of employment, including wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions
What is a collective bargaining agreement?
This type of interview is one in which a Supervisor questions an employee to obtain information which could be used as a basis for discipline or asks an employee to defend their conduct.
What is an investigatory interview?
These individuals have supervisory duties, including hiring and firing employees, and are excluded from the bargaining unit.
What are managers?
This Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist has many things named after him, including a holiday and many streets across America.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This is how you refer to all full-time, part-time, and per diem employees working within specific job classification that are covered by the terms in the collective bargaining agreement.
What is the collective bargaining unit?
This is what is committed if the employer denies the request for union representation, and continues to ask questions in an investigatory interview.
What is an unfair labor practice?
A group of employees, defined by their job titles and duties, who are represented by a single labor union in collective bargaining and other dealings with management.
What is a bargaining unit?
This former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation from 2006 - 2018, who recently passed away, had a father who worked on several labor union cases.
Who is Cecile Richards?
PPPSW employees will now see a 5% increase on their check every July due to this benefit that was negotiated during bargaining.
What is an annual raise?
This 1975 Supreme Court Case upheld a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that employees have a right to union representation at investigatory interviews.
What is NLRB vs. J. Weingarten?
This federal organization protects the rights of employees to join together to improve their wages and working conditions.
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
This female labor leader worked alongside Cesar Chavez, helped co-found the National Farm Workers Association, and is often credited with popularizing the slogan "Si Se Puede"
This is the 2% paycheck deduction you see that is used to fund the union's activities, including collective bargaining, organizing, and representing workers' interests - as well as access to education programs and other member benefits.
What are dues?
This 90s Democratic US president extended Weingarten rights to non-unionized workplaces.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The process of negotiation between employees and their employer over wages, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights
What is collective bargaining?
This lawyer, who won the Roe vs. Wade supreme court case, has her name on the College Avenue Health Center.
Who is Sarah Weddington?
These outline the employer's authority to manage the business, including directing employees, evaluating performance, and making decisions - and are subject to the terms and conditions outlined in the CBA
What are management rights?