labor relations process - ANS involves managers and labor organizations selected by employees as their exclusive bargaining agent to represent their interests
1. Recognition of the legitimate rights and responsibilities of union and mgmt representatives
2. Negotiation of the labor agree...
labor relations process - ANS involves managers and labor organizations selected by
employees as their exclusive bargaining agent to represent their interests
1. Recognition of the legitimate rights and responsibilities of union and mgmt representatives
2. Negotiation of the labor agreement
3. Administration of the negotiated labor agreement - ANS Phases of the labor relations
process
interest dispute - ANS a dispute over what the terms or conditions of employment or work
rules will be
rights dispute - ANS a dispute over the interpretation or application of a contracts terms
work rules - ANS rules governing compensation in all forms
or
rules specifying the employees and employers job rights and obligations
managers - ANS represent the interests of the ownership as well as their own self-interests
agency theory - ANS delegates authority by the owners to make decisions required to
operate the organization
management consultants - ANS individuals hired from outside the organization to provide
some special service or expertise
union representative - ANS elected by members to represent their employment interests
and are a key participant in the labor relations process
employees - ANS most significant participant in the labor relations process.
mediator and arbitrator - ANS types of third-party neutrals
mediator - ANS help resolve interest disputes during contract negotiations, promoting
voluntary settlement
, arbitrator - ANS hired by union and management to make a final and binding decision on a
disputed issue
discouraged worker - ANS a worker who has given up searching for a job because they
believed no jobs were available for them
financial market - ANS areas in which the employers and unions seek to borrow funds to
finance their investment strategies
1. the free enterprise (capitalist) system in the US creates an inherent conflict of interest
between employers and employees
2. employees in a free and democratic society have a right to independently pursue their
employment interests using lawful means
3. collective bargaining provides a process for meaningful employee participation through
independently chosen representatives in the determination of work rules - ANS basic
assumption underlying US labor relations
structural changes in the labor force - ANS what is the most important reason union
memberships declined?
common law - ANS used to resolve a legal dispute only when no constitutional law or
statutory law applies to that dispute.
EAW - ANS employment relationships established for a indefinite duration may be
terminated by employer or employee at any time for any or no stated reason
criminal conspiracy doctrine - ANS attempts by employees to organize unions aroused
much public protests
commonwealth v hunt - ANS ended the use of criminal conspiracy, but left in place cival
conspiracy
civil conspiracy doctrine - ANS a group involved in concerted activities violated the law if it
inflicted harm on other parties outside the disputants
labor injunction - ANS court order prohibiting or restricted certain activities in conjunction
with a labor dispute.
yellow-dog contract - ANS agreement stating that an employee would neither join a union
or assist in organizing one
sherman antitrust act - ANS intended to prohibit business monopolies
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