ASSESMENT: 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.
| Workers who cross picket lines to work when union employees are on strike. |
A. Common law of the shop |
| The challenge of whether a disputed issue is subject to arbitration under the terms of the contract. |
B. Scabs |
| Sufficient or proper reasons for which management has the right to discipline or discharge employees. |
C. Retaliation |
| 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. |
D. Arbitrability |
| Recognition of the bargaining history of those in the same industry to determine the respective rights of the parties involved in a labor dispute. |
E. Arbitrator's award |
| Certain actions taken by employers or unions that violate the NLRA. |
F. Just cause |
| Process in which the parties involved agree to submit an unresolved dispute to a neutral third party, shoes? decision is final and binding. |
G. Unfair labor practices |
| Unlawful means of conducting a strike. |
H. Steelworkers' trilogy |
| Submission to arbitration for the interpretation or application of current contract terms. |
I. Arbitration |
| Three 1960 Supreme court rulings that upheld the grievance arbitration process and limited judicial intervention. |
J. Rights arbitration |
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K. Sickout |
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L. Weingarten rule |
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M. Lincoln Mills case |
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N. Past practice |