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| Union pressure tactics involve strikes and calls for boycotts, while employers may resort to lockouts. |
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| Placing persons outside an employer's premises to convey information to the public via words, signs, or distributing literature. |
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| The movement of persons back and forth around an employer's premises. |
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| The organized withholding of labor by workers - the traditional weapon by which workers attempt to pressure employers |
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| Ambulatory Situs Picketing |
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| Union picketing that follows the primary employer's mobile business. |
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| Union picketing of an entire construction site. |
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| Provisions in collective bargaining agreements that purport to permit employees to refuse to handle the product of any employer involved in a labor dispute. |
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| The settlement of disputes by a neutral adjudicator chosen by the parties |
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Arbitration that is used to create a new collective agreement or to renew an existing agreement.
**common in the public sector, much less common in private sector.** |
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Arbitration to resolve a dispute involving the interpretation or application of an existing collective agreement; arbitration that defines the rights and obligations of each party under the agreement.
**Very common in both private and public sectors** |
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| The process set up by a collective agreement to deal with complaints that arise under the collective agreement. |
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| A complaint that one party to a collective agreement is not living up to the obligations of the agreement. |
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| A provision in a collective agrement by which the union agrees not to strike over disputes of interpretation of the agreement during the term of the agreement. |
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| Duty of Free Representation |
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| Legal duty on the part of the union to represent fairly all members of the bargaining unit. |
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| A union security provision in a collective agreement that requires employees to become union members within 30 days of their employment. |
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| A union security provision in a collective agreement that requires employees to pay union dues and fees, but does not require that they become union members. |
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| Federal Service Impasse Panel |
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| Federal body created under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relation Act to resolve impasses in collective bargaining in the federal service. |
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| Open-Meeting ("Sunshine") Laws |
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| Laws that require that meetings of public bodies be open to the public. |
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