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Federal law which makes it unlawful to discriminate in employment against a qualified individual with a disability.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The process of negotiating wages, hours and other employment terms between an employer and a group of workers represented by a union
What is Collective Bargaining
Process in which an impartial third party assists union and management with communication and negotiation to assist them in reaching an agreement without binding either side to a specific resolution
What is Mediation?
Federal law providing employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year for serious health conditions or to care for family members.
Family and Medical Leave Act (or FMLA)
Formal approval of newly negotiated contract by majority vote of union members
What is Ratification
The largest federation of national and international unions in the United States—which incidentally SEIU is not a part of.
What is AFL-CIO
A mandatory meeting during working hours, called by management with the purpose of discouraging employees from organizing or joining a union
What is Captive Audience Meeting
The clause in the contract which state’s employer’s rights to control operational aspects and assign work.
What is Management Rights
Slang for a person who continues to work or does the work of employees who are on strike
What is Scab
Workers in a non-union shop who are tested leaders and represent co-workers during their fight for union recognition
What is Organizing Committee (or OC)
The referral of disputes, including grievances, between management and unions to an impartial third party for a final binding resolution.
What is Arbitration.
Employee Benefit Plan that allows staff to choose from a variety of pre-tax benefits consisting of cash or other health and welfare benefits
What is Cafeteria Plan
Those employment terms over which an employer must negotiate with its union.
What is Mandatory Subject of Bargaining
The due process rights established by the CA Supreme Ct. for public employees to receive notice of intended disciplinary action and an opportunity to state their side of the story.
What is Skelly rights
The 7 test standard that management must adhere to when disciplining or discharging a unionized employee to insure the action is firmly and fairly grounded.
What is Just Cause
Employment arrangement that enables employers to fire employees for any reason or no reason which prevails in all non-union shops.
What is At Will Employment
A method for employees to organize by the majority signing authorization cards, as an alternative to an election.
What is Card Check
A public sector employer can not make a unilateral change to a matter within the scope of representation unless they engage in this process.
What is Meet and Confer
The 1938 federal wage and hour law that establishes the minimum wage, maximum weekly hours and overtime pay requirements.
What is Fair Labor Standards Act (or FLSA)
A method of preparing workers for a boss campaign or employer push back during an organizing drive
What is Inoculation
A workplace where even if workers do not join the union, they must still pay fees to the union to cover collective bargaining costs.
What is Agency Shop
The use of strategic pressure on a private employer to gain leverage during a contract or organizing fight.
What is Corporate Campaign
A catch-all phrase in a grievance remedy to describe restoring the grievant to the position they would have been in had the violation not occurred.
What is Make Whole.
The amount a non-member must contribute to their union to support collective bargaining in a private sector shop.
What is Fair Share or Service Fees
Legal framework that allows employees to work in a unionized workplace without being required to join, participate or financially support the union
What is Right to Work.