31 Jan Unlawful means

BHR4350 Collective Bargaining
Unit VIII Assessment

Question 1

By what means can collective bargaining agreements be enforced? Discuss the five principles that govern the arbitration of grievances under collective bargaining. What measures are utilized in non-union environments?

Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

Question 2

How does an arbitrator determine that a company had just cause for taking a disciplinary action? What remedy might an arbitrator choose if a company did not have just cause? Will the process be different if the organization does not have union representation? If so how?

Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

Question 3

Match each description to the correct term.

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Workers who cross picket lines to work when union employees are on strike.

Scabs

The challenge of whether a disputed issue is subject to arbitration under the terms of the contract.

Arbitrability

Sufficient or proper reasons for which management has the right to discipline or discharge employees.

Just cause

A Supreme Court ruling that a union employee has the right to request the presence of a union official during a meeting with management if the meeting may involve a discipline issue.

Weingarten rule

Recognition of the bargaining history of those in the same industry to determine the respective rights of the parties involved in a labor dispute.

Common law of the shop

Certain actions taken by employers or unions that violate the NLRA.

Unfair labor practices

Process in which the parties involved agree to submit an unresolved dispute to a neutral third party, shoes? decision is final and binding.

Arbitration

Unlawful means of conducting a strike.

Sickout

Submission to arbitration for the interpretation or application of current contract terms.

Rights arbitration

Three 1960 Supreme court rulings that upheld the grievance arbitration process and limited judicial intervention.

Steelworkers’ trilogy