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Unions - Answer-organizations formed for the purpose of representing their members' interests
in dealing with employers


Labor Relations - Answer-Field that emphasizes the skills managers and union leaders can use:
1) to minimize costly forms of conflict (such as strikes and lockouts) and
2) seek win-win solutions to disagreements.


Right to Work Laws - Answer--State laws that make union shops, maintenance of membership,
and agency shops illegal.
-Prevents exclusion of non-union workers or requiring employees to pay a fee to unions that
have negotiated the labor contract all the employees work under.
-Right-to-work laws exist in twenty-four U.S. states


The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935 (The Wagner Act) - Answer-Gives employees
the rights, without fear of persecution, to:
-self-organization
-form, join, or assist labor organizations
-bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing
-engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid
or protection
-and refrain from such activities unless that right may be affected by an agreement that requires
membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment.


Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 - Answer-An amendment to the 1935 NLRA that rebalanced employer
and employee rights by prohibiting specific unfair practices by unions, including:
-Wildcat strikes and secondary boycotts.
-Union shops.
-Coercive tactics.

, Also permits the government to receive an 80-day injunction against strikes that threaten the
national economy.


Government Employee Strikes - Answer-Federal law (5 U.S.C. Section 7311) prohibits
employees of the United States government from:
-striking
-publicly claiming that they have the right to strike or belonging to a union that claims the right to
strike.




* The law does not prohibit government workers from unionizing and collective bargaining.


The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988 - Answer--Firms that
employ (full time) more than 100 people must notify employees of a layoff at least sixty days
ahead of time when laying off more than 50 people.
-All workers are entitled to this notice, including hourly and salaried workers, and managers.


Why join unions? (Union Organizing) - Answer-People join unions for a variety of reasons,
including better pay and benefits (especially good health care coverage and retirement plans);
unfair management practices that lead to poor labor relations; and job security.


NO TIPS RULE - Answer--No Threats - managers can't threaten that the firm will shut down a
facility that votes for unionization.
-No Interrogations - managers can't ask an employee about union organizing activities.
-No Promises - managers can't promise employees pay or benefits rewards if they vote against
union authorization.
-No Spying - managers can't plant spies in union organizing meetings or other activities.


Salting - Answer--Members are encouraged by their union to seek employment at a nonunion
company


-Once hired, they promote unionization


-The union may supplement their regular pay to provide equity with a "union" wage

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