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MGT 316

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Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)
A written and signed document between an employer entity and a labor organization specifying the terms and conditions of employment for a specified period of time.
Craft Union
A labor union whose membership is organized in accordance with their craft or skills.
Free Agents
Players who are you permitted to negotiate contract terms with any club. Players are not usually eligible for unrestricted free agency until they turn a certain age.
Labor Relations
Any activity between management and unions or employees concerning the negotiation or implementation of a collective bargaining agreement.
Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA)
Formed in 1952, has represented players for collective bargaining since 1966.
Preemption
A legal theory in which federal law takes precedent over state law.
Salary Arbitration
A process specified in a sport's CBA that provides if a player and team cannot agree on a new salary for a future, they agree to submit the issue to an arbitrator who will make a final and binding decision.
Labor Organization
Defined in Sec. 2 of the NLRA and means any employee committee or other organization of any kind in which employees deal with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, hours, or working conditions.
Union Membership
Employees of an organization that belong to a labor organization.
Ludlow, Colorado
"A day that will live in infamy" Miners went on strike and the coal operators called in a militia and attacked, killing 20 people.
Molly Maguires
A group of union organizers who were prosecuted and either executed or imprisoned after an 1875 strike against anthracite mine owners failed.
Company Unions
An employee organization formed by an employer and recognized within a company, often it will offer employer-connived reforms, such as health benefits and better living conditions, to discourage employee unionization.
Pullman Strike
The strike in 1894 by Pullman Car Company employees who were demanding higher wages and lower rents.
American Federation of Labor
A federation of unions made up of skilled workers formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. The AFL offered trade unions local autonomy because the national union operated as a decentralized organization.
Homestead, Pennsylvania
An 1892 strike at a steel plant owned by Andrew Carnegie. The plant operator responded with paid police and strikebreakers. The strike ended when martial law was declared and the state militia was sent in by the governor.
Labor Injunctions
A court order that prohibits any individual or group from performing any act that violates the rights of other individuals concerned. Until 1932, these were primarily used by employers to end boycotts or strikes.
Samuel Gompers
British-born U.S. labor leader, founder, and first president of the AFL. He was a union organizer known for his opposition to radicalism and political involvement. He believed that unions should focus on economic goals, bringing about change through strikes and boycotts.
Eugene Debs
An American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and several times the candidate of the Social Democratic Party for President of the US. Debs led the American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike. Was sentenced to a year in jail.
Knights of Labor
An organization open to skilled and unskilled laborers, formed in 1869 as The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor. It sought economic and social reform through political action rather than strikes.
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
A federation of unions made up of industrial workers formed in 1935 by John Lewis. The CIO organized unions within industries, such as the auto and steel industries, and included all the workers at a work site than than restricting membership to one trade.
Wagner Act
The cornerstone of U.S. Federal Labor law. The act was the first in history to give most private sector employees the right to organize into unions, to bargain collectively with employers, to define unfair labor practices by employers, and to create the NLRB.
Taft-Hartley Amendments
Also known as the Labor Management Relations Act, it generally was created to counterbalance the provisions of the NLRA. The law declared closed shops and automatic check-offs illegal, cited unfair labor union practices, and protected the rights of employees who chose not to unionize.
Scabs
A derogatory term to describe workers who cross a union picket line to perform the jobs of striking workers.
Clayton Act
Passed by Congress in 1914, this law was designed to limit the use of the Sherman Antitrust Act in labor disputes and to limit the court's injunctive powers against labor organizations, stating that labor was not a commodity and union members were not restrained from lawful activities.
John L. Lewis
An American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America. He was a major player in the history of coal mining. He was the driving force behind the founding of the CIO and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s.
Advisory Arbitration
A for public for often in public sector collective bargaining the parties submit an unresolved dispute to an unbiased third party who examines the impasse and issues finding and recommendations.
FOIA
"Freedom of Information Acts" Makes documents of public entities generally available to all citizens.
Free Riders
Employees within a bargaining unit who choose not to join the union that bargains for an agreement for the unit. Although the employees recieve all negotiated benefits, they pay no costs associated with the union.
Mediation
The introduction of a neutral third party into a grievance situation or collective bargaining impasse. Although mediators have no decision-making powers, they use their skills and work actively to achieve a settlement that is mutually agreeable to both sides.
Executive Order (E.O.) 10988
The executive order signed by President JFK in 1962 allowing federal employees bargaining representation, forms of employee recognition, and the right to collective bargaining.
Pattern Bargaining
A collective bargaining practice in which a national union strives to establish equal wages and benefits from several employers in the same industry.
Right to Strike
For employees in the private sector, the right to strike is guaranteed by the NLRA, but public employees are generally prohibited from striking, making the right to strike a major issue for public-sector unions.
Sovereignty Doctrine
The unrestricted and paramount power of the people to govern. In the public sector, this doctrine is presented as a basic reason for not allowing employees to have collective bargaining rights.
Sunshine Laws
Statutes requiring that the official business of government be conducted in public, sometimes requiring that public-sector collective bargaining sessions be open to the public.
Accretion
The practice of allowing the addition of new employees and jobs to existing bargaining units provided their work satisfies the same criteria of the original unit.
Appropriate Bargaining Unit
The group of employees determined by the NLRB to be an appropriate unit for collective bargaining purposes. After a bargaining unit is identified, the employees of that unit have the right to select their bargaining representative, usually a labor union.
TIPS and FORE
TIPS- Threaten, Interrogate, Promise, Spy FORE- Facts, Opinions, Rules, and Experience
Business Agent
The full-time administrator of a local union pay to handle the negotiation and administration of the unions contract as well as the daily operation of the union hiring hall.
Community-of-Interest Doctrine
Criteria used by the NLRB to evaluate a group of employees and determine whether they constitute an appropriate bargaining unit, including; similarity of jobs, and wages & benefits.
Steward
An on-the-job union representative who carries out the responsibilities of the union in the plant at the departmental level.
Salting
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.
Voluntary Recgonition
An employer recognized a union as the bargaining agent of the employees without requiring a secret ballot election.
Certification
The determination by the NLRB that a union represents the employees' free choice and therefore that the union can become the official bargaining agent for a bargaining unit.
Organizing Drive
A movement initiated by dissatisfied employees or a union organizer to submit a representation petition to the NLRB and win a representation election, this providing union certification and collective bargaining.
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