HR 3305 Chapter 13

Wagner Act deemed as 'statutory wrongs" 5 unfair labor practices used by employers:

1. It is unfair for employers to "interfere with restrain or coerce employees in exercising their legally sanctioned right of self-organization. 2. It is an unfair practice for company representatives to dominate or interfere with either the formation or the administration of labor unions.

Taft Hartley Act practices that unions were prohibited from engaging in

1. unions were banned from restraining or coercing employees from exercising their guaranteed bargaining rights. 2.it is an unfair labor practice for a union to cause an employer to discriminate in any way against an employee in order to encourage or discourage his or her membership in a union. 3. It is an unfair labor practice for a union to refuse to bargain in good faith with the employer about wages, hours and other employment conditions.

About ________% of people working in the United States belong to unions.

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Wagner Act

1935; established National Labor Relations Board; protected the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands.

closed shop

A form of union security in which the company can hire only union members. This was outlawed in 1947 but still exists in some industries (such as printing)

Wagner Act

A law that banned certain types of unfair labor practices and provided for secret-ballot elections and majority rule for determining whether or not a firm's employees want to unionize.

maintenance of membership arrangement

Employees do not have to belong to the union. However, union members employed by the firm must maintain membership in the union for the contract period.

Codetermination

Employees have the legal right to a voice in setting company policies

What a supervisor may do; refer to FORE -

F - Facts O - Opinion R - rules E - Experience

In order for unions to petition an election, 50% of eligible employees in a bargaining unit must sign authorization cards.

False (30%)

Right of employers with the Taft-Hartley Act

Gives them full freedom to express their views concerning union organization.

bargaining unit

Group of employees a union wants to represent.

NLRB

National Labor Relations Act. Legalized labor unions, guaranteed right to join union and "good faith" bargaining.

What is good faith bargaining?

Refers to a type of negotiation in which all parties want and try to achieve a reasonable agreement.

What a supervisor can and cannot do; refer to TIPS.

T - threaten I - Interrogate P - Promise S - Spy

Right to work laws don't outlaw unions.

T or F

Which law enables the US president to intervene in national emergency strikes?

Taft Hartley Act

After the authorization cards are collected, one of 3 things can occur.

The employer may choose not to contest union recognition. The employer may choose not to contest the unions right to an election. Or the employer may contest the unions right.

Taft-Hartley Act

The law prohibiting union unfair labor practices and enumerating the rights of employees as union members. It also enumerates the number of employees.

Step 1: Initial Contact

The union determines the employers interest in organizing and establishes an organizing committee.

National Labor Relations Wagner Act

This banned unfair labor practices, to help add teeth to the Norris-Laguardia Act, provided for secret-ballot elections, it helped create the NLRB.

Norris-LaGuardia Act

This law marked the beginning of the era of strong encouragement of unions and guaranteed to each employee the right to bargain collectively "free from interference, restraint, or coercion."

Codetermination means employees have the legal right to a voice in setting company policies.

True

Employers can replace strikers permanently unless the strike is based on unfair labor practices.

True

agency shop

a form of union security in which employees who do not belong to the union must still pay union dues on the assumption that union efforts benefit all workers

union shop

a form of union security in which the company can hire nonunion people but they must join the union after a prescribed period of time and pay dues.

Landrum-Griffin Act

a law aimed at protecting union members from possible wrongdoing on the part of their unions

lockout

a refusal by the employer to provide opportunities to work.

unfair labor practice strike

a strike aimed at protesting illegal conduct by the employer

economic strike

a strike that results from a failure to agree on the terms of a contract that involves wages, benefits, and other conditions of employment

sympathy strike

a strike that takes place when one union strikes in support of another's strike

union salting

a union organizing tactic by which workers who are in fact employed full-time by a union as undercover organizers are hired by unwitting employers

wildcat strike

an unauthorized strike occurring during the term of a contract

The ___ form of union security means that the company can hire only union members.

closed shop

Which type of union security was outlawed in 1947?

closed shop

What are the 5 types of union security?

closed shop, union shop, agency shop, preferential shop, maintenance of membership arrangement

NLRB (National Labor Relations Board)

created under Wagner Act; acted as a mediator in labor disputes between unions and employers

Factors that cause workers to unionize include all EXCEPT ___

good employee relations poor communication low morale fear of job loss

authorization card

in order to petition for a union election, the union must show that at least 30% of employees may be interested in being unionized.

Union drive and election have 5 basic steps:

initial contact, authorization cards, hearing, campaign and election

injunctive relief

is a judicial order calling for a cessation of certain actions deemed injurious.

The Taft Hartley Act amended the Wagner Act in all of the following ways EXCEPT by ___

limiting the power of the National Labor Review board

What is the first step in the union drive process?

making initial contact with employees

national emergency strikes

strikes that might "imperil the national health and safety"

boycott

the combined refusal by employees and other interested parties to buy or use the employer's products.

arbitration

the most definitive type of 3 party intervention, in which the arbitrator often has the power to determine and dictate the settlement terms.

right to work

the public policy in a number of states that prohibits union security of any kind

The purpose of picketing is ___

to inform the public about the existence of the labor dispute and often to encourage others to refrain from doing business with the employer against whom the employees are striking.

preferential shop

union members get preference in hiring, but the employer can still hire nonunion members

The ___ form of union security means that the company can hire non union people, but those people must join the union within a prescribed period of time.

union shop

What do unions want?

•Union Security -Closed Shop -Union Shop -Agency Shop -Preferential Shop -Maintenance of Membership •Improved Wages, Hours, Working Conditions, Benefits •AFL-CIO and the SEIU