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Americans at Work I
Americans at Work II
How Unions Are Organized
Negotiations
Strikes and Management
100
A person who works as a crafter and/or a manufacturer.
What is a blue-collar worker?
100
The number of people 16 or older. These people are currently working, or they are currently looking for work.
What is the civilian labor force?
100
A union made for a certain geographical area.
What is a local union?
100
A federal law that determines how low the hourly wage rate can get.
What is minimum wage laws?
100
An action people take who will stop working till they get what they want.
What is a strike?
200
A person who works in professional positions.
What is a white-collar worker?
200
A person who provides services directly to individuals or customers.
What is a service worker?
200
A company that only hires union members.
What is a closed shop?
200
The process in which employees and employers discuss new contracts.
What is collective bargaining?
200
An action that people take during a strike with signs stating what they as a group feel is wrong.
What is picketing?
300
A person who does not need training to do his or her job.
What is an unskilled worker?
300
A person who has graduated from a college and now has a degree and a job.
What is professional?
300
A company that makes new employees to belong to a union within a certain time period of being hired.
What is a union shop?
300
An adjustment for if the cost of living rises so do the wages. This is also known as COLA!
What is cost-of-living-adjustment?
300
An action an employer takes on the employees so they cannot return to work.
What is a lockout?
400
A person who needs some training to do his or her job, often dealing with technology.
What is a semiskilled worker?
400
A union created by skilled workers, such as carpentry.
What is a craft union?
400
A company that requires its employees to pay union dues, though the employees do not have to belong to a union.
What is an agency shop?
400
A person tries to get both sides of a disagreement to agree.
What is mediation?
400
Actions encourage by unions to the public to stop the purchase or involvement of services an goods in order to help the employees get what they want.
What is a boycott?
500
A person who has had extensive training in his or her field.
What is a skilled worker?
500
A union made up of people working in an industry. It does to this type of union as to how much skill this person holds.
What is an industrial union?
500
This is a state law prohibiting unions from forcing workers to join unions and paying dues to unions the people do not belong to.
What is the right-to-work laws?
500
The submitting of a disagreement to a third party. This party decides what happens.
What is arbitration?
500
This is a court order preventing friction from occurring.
What is injunction?