Labor Relations
NLRB stands for...
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
A formal association of workers that promotes the interests of its members through collective action.
What is a union?
What percent of employees must sign an authorization card to indicate their interest in having an election?
30%
The last step in the unionization process.
What is Collective Bargaining/Contract Negotiation?
Are excluded from bargaining units.
Who are supervisors?
Labor Relations Acronym "CBA"
What is a Collective Bargaining Agreement?
The modern era has seen _______ unionization rates.
What is declining?
This organization administers most labor laws in the United States.
What is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
This is something you are willing to give up to get something in return.
What is a concession?
A work stoppage in which union members refuse to work in order to put pressure on an employer.
What is a Strike?
This act was passed into law in 1935 and is credited with making unionization a clear process and assisting in the unionization wave that followed.
What is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)?
An employee vote to determine if they want to be in a union.
What is a representation election?
A legal term used to describe the way things are right now.
What is status quo?
Wages, benefits and these are considered mandatory items in negotiations.
What are "terms and conditions" of employment?
An elected position in a local union who is a regular employee functioning as a liaison between union members and supervisors.
What is the Shop Steward?
The process where the union is removed as representative.
What is decertification?
A private confidential vote by employees overseen by the NLRB, which allows employees to cast their vote for or against unionization.
What is a secret ballot representation election?
The specifically defined group of employees eligible for union represntation.
What is the bargaining unit?
This must ratify all new contract agreements resulting from collective bargaining.
What is union membership?
What is a violation of rights under the labor relations statutes?
Unfair labor practices (ULP)
This is the percentage of members of the bargaining unit that must submit signatures to the NLRB to change or remove the union.
What is 30%?
Laws that (1) prevent workers from having to join a union as a condition of employment, (2) be forced not to join a union as a condition of employment, or (3) be forced to pay union dues to a labor union or be fired for not paying such dues.
What are right-to-work laws?
If a manager attempts to negotiate directly with employees about their hourly wage rates, the union will likely accuse the employer of this ULP.
What is circumvention or direct dealing or refusal to bargain?
Obliges both management and labor to meet at reasonable times and confer in good faith with respect to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
What is good faith bargaining?
Employer withholding of union dues from a union members pay check.
What is Dues check off?