FO CH10 Flashcards
Federal legislation passed in 1938 that provides the minimum standards for both wages and overtime entitlement and spells out administrative procedures by which covered work time must be compensated. Public safety workers were added to this term’s coverage in 1986.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
A concerted act by a group of employees who withhold their labor for the purposes of effecting a change in wages, hours, or working conditions.
Strike
A dispute, claim, or complaint that any employee or group of employees may have in relation to the interpretation, application, and/or alleged violation of some provision of the labor agreement or personnel regulations.
Grievance
Method whereby representatives of employees (unions) and employers determine the conditions of employment through direct negotiation, normally resulting in a written contract setting forth the wages, hours, and other conditions to be observed for a stipulated period (e.g., 3 years). This term also applies to union–management dealings during the terms of the agreement.
Collective bargaining
A worker cannot be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or not to join or to pay dues to a labor union.
Right to work
Resolution of a dispute by a mediator or a group rather than a court of law. Any civil matter may be settled in this way; some labor–management agreements include a binding arbitration clause.
Arbitration
Pledges that employers required workers to sign indicating that they would not join a union as long as the company employed them; were declared unenforceable by the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932.
Yellow dog contracts
Mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of an agreement.
Negotiation
An organization formed by corporations, unions, and other interest groups that solicits campaign contributions from private individuals and distributes these funds to political candidates.
Political Action Committee (PAC)
A situation in which the parties in a dispute have reached a deadlock in negotiations; also described as the demarcation line between bargaining and negotiation. A declaration of this situation in labor–management negotiations brings in a state or federal negotiator who will start a fact-finding process that will lead to a binding arbitration resolution.
Impasse
The intervention of a neutral third party in an industrial dispute. The object is to enable the two sides to reach a compromise solution to their differences, which the mediator usually does by seeing representatives of both sides separately and then together.
Mediation
A formal structured process that is employed within an organization to resolve a grievance. In most cases, this process is incorporated in the personnel rules or the labor agreement and specifies a series of steps that must be followed in a particular order.
Grievance procedure
A union member appointed or elected to be the first line of labor representation at the workplace. This individual enforces the contract, collective agreement, or memorandum of understanding and represents the union members at that fire station or work location.
Shop steward
A legal requirement of both the union and the employer arising out of Section 8(d) of the National Labor Relations Act. Enforced by the National Labor Relations Board, the parties are required to meet regularly to bargain collectively for wages, hours, and other conditions of employment.
Good faith bargaining
Employer or union practices forbidden by the National Labor Relations Board or state/local laws, subject to court appeal. It often involves the employer’s efforts to avoid bargaining in good faith.
Unfair labor practices
