UAW
Basics
Basics
This is the year the UAW was founded.
What is 1935?
This is what the acronym TOP stands for.
What is technical, office, and professional?
This is the document that outlines the rules, structure, and governing procedure of the UAW?
What is the Constitution?
Your supervisor tells you that beginning next week you'll be taking on responsibilities previously performed by a higher-paid classification. Before accepting the permanent change, you should review this document to see if the assignment violates negotiated job classifications.
What is the collective bargaining agreement?
This issue occurs when there are too few employees to handle the workload?
What is understaffing?
This is what the UAW stands for.
What is United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America?
Members in these workplaces are who the TOP department was designed to support. (you must name at least three)
What are arts, entertainment, and media, health care providers, health insurance providers, private employment (gaming, food service, credit union, etc), and public employment (state, county, and municipal)?
This is the legally binding document that outlines wages, benefits, working conditions, and other terms negotiated between the Union and employer.
What is the collective bargaining agreement?
An HR representative unexpectedly asks you to attend a meeting concerning an alleged workplace violation. You believe the discussion could lead to discipline. Before answering questions, you should request these rights.
What are Weingarten Rights?
Employees want equal pay for equal work, known as this.
This is the name of the UAW training facility located in Onaway, Michigan.
What is the Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center?
This is a common misconception regarding TOP workplaces.
What is they are not represented by the UAW?
This is the formal procedure to challenge violations of the CBA, workplace policies, or unfair treatment.
What is a grievance?
Your employer introduces new software and artificial intelligence tools that significantly change your workload and job responsibilities. Members want protections regarding training, workload, and job security. These concerns are most appropriately addressed during this process.
What is collective bargaining?
New technology and software can create concerns about this.
This is the year of the UAW's first direct election of International Executive Board Members.
What is 2022?
What are three issues that are specifically important to TOP workers
What are remote work, professional development, job classifications, workload and staffing, wage equity, and technology and automation?
This is where all Local Union business if reported out and all motions voted on by the membership.
What is a general membership meeting?
A group of employees discover that management has been calculating overtime differently than required by the labor agreement, affecting dozens of workers. The union's next step would likely be to file one of these.
What is a grievance?
Training employees to keep skills current is called this.
What is professional development?
These are the offices that make up the International Executive Boards.
What is President, Secretary-Treasurer, 3 Vice-Presidents, and 9 Regional Directors?
This is what the acronym ITOPAC means.
What is International Technical, Office, and Professional Advisory Committee?
Before a local Union can conduct official business at meeting this is the number of members that must be present.
What is a quorum?
After a grievance has gone through all contractual steps and remains unresolved, the union and employer present their cases to a neutral third party who issues a binding decision.
What is an arbitrator?
This is the process of building support one coworker at a time.
What is organizing?