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| • Appropriate Bargaining Unit: |
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| 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. |
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| 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 and benefits; degree of contact and proximity and common supervision. |
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| The policy by the NLRB to help it determine the representation wishes of employees when establishing an appropriate bargaining unit. The Board may use secret ballot election process as a means of giving weight to the desires of a group of employees such as smaller craft group within a larger industrial group. |
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| 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. |
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| A bargaining Unit composed exclusively of workers with a specific and recognized skill, such as electricians or plumbers. (IBEW International Brotherhood of electrical workers) |
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| Similar to a craft unit, a departmental unit is composed of all the members of one department in a larger organization. |
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| Employees left unrepresented after the bulk of employees are organized, such as janitors and sales people may be entitled to separate representation by a residual unit. |
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| An employee group separate from the primary production and maintenance units in their job duties such as professional, technical, guard, and clerical units. |
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| : A labor union whose members primarily perform jobs of one particular skill. |
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| A labor union whose membership is composed primarily of semiskilled or unskilled workers such as automobile workers and steel workers, which are organized on the basis of the product they produce. |
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| The Full-time administrator of a local union paid to handle the negotiations and administration of the union contract as well as the daily operation of the union hiring hall. |
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| An on the job union representative who carries out the responsibilities of the union in the plant at the departmental level. |
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| • Federation of Unions: The Uniting of many national unions to increase union power and recognition. The federation serves as a national spokesperson for its members although it is not a union itself. Two Federations in the United States AFL-CIO and the change to Win Coalition. |
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| A full-time, salaried staff member of a union who generally represents a national union who organizes work places to increase union membership |
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| A movement initiated by dissatisfied employees or a union organizer to submit a representation petition to the NLRB and win a representation election, thus providing union certification and collective bargaining. |
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| Union Organizing Structure: |
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1. Step 1 Build an organization committee
2. Determine the Issues
3. Chose a recognition strategy
• Card Check Recognition
• Strike for Recognition
• Call for an NLRB sponsored election |
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| Secret Ballot Representation Election: |
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| A private confidential vote by employees overseen by the NLRB, which allows employees to cast their vote for or against union representation confidentially without pressure or coercion from the union or employer. |
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| 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 within a union wage. |
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| Don’t/ Prohibited by the NLRB |
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THREATEN
INTERROGATE
PROMISE
SPY |
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| Do/ Permitted by the NLRB |
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FACTS
OPINIONS
RULES
EXPERIENCE |
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| Decertification Election: |
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| The process of removing a union as the certified representative of employees within a bargaining unit. A secret ballot election is conducted by the NLRB to determine a majority opinion. |
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| DE authorization Election |
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| The Bargaining unit members decide if they desire to nullify the union shop provision in their agreement which must be passed by a majority if the bargaining unit members. Thus if a union loses a De authorization election the union still represents the employees in the bargaining unit and the rest of the collective bargaining agreement but employees are not required to join the union. |
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| Having been certified as the collective bargaining agent for a particular unit the union has the legal right to bargain for all the employees within the uni, nonunion as well as union. |
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