Exam 26: Organized Labour

An employer has made a financial decision to lay-off workers.Shane has decided to invoke her bumping rights.The collective agreement allows bumping, but specifically prohibits bumping up.Which of the following is most likely to be TRUE?

What is the most usual means of resolving a dispute that arises under an existing collective agreement?

An arbitrator ordered Local 234 to cease its illegal walkout from Ardvark Inc.Local 234 decided to continue its action anyway, in order to send a strong message to the employer.How can Ardvark Inc enforce the order against the union?

Which of the following would be required by the duty to bargain in good faith?

A dispute has been sent to an arbitrator for resolution.Within that context, which of the following statements is most likely to be TRUE?

What are the necessary elements of a strike? Using the elements you have listed, provide and analyze one example of employee actions that would be seen as a strike and one example of an employee action that would not be seen as a strike.

From where do arbitrators obtain authority to award remedies? Identify and describe three important remedies that arbitrators can award in labour disputes.

In the context of a collective agreement, a "union shop" clause

There is no right to strike expressly stated in either the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or by common law.

One less common method of acquiring bargaining rights is through voluntary recognition by the employer.

The International Sisterhood of Drum-Makers is trying to decide how to achieve financial security.Describe, and provide examples of, approaches that it might take to remuneration as well as the requirements that it might set for workers.

Some employee organizations are not entitled to take part in the collective bargaining process.

A provincial ministry of education stipulated that secondary school teachers would have to spend more hours each day teaching in the classroom.As a result, teachers had to prepare for classes on their own time.In protest, certain teachers' union locals refused to participate in extracurricular activities such as athletic teams and student clubs.Teachers had traditionally led these activities on a voluntary basis.A board of education wishes to grieve that the union is engaged in an illegal strike.Analyze this issue and determine whether the board of education's position will be adopted.

The employees at Don's Ice Palace, an ice skating complex, feel that they are being treated unfairly.They consequently want to become unionized, in the hope of pressuring the company into providing better pay and working conditions.The International Brotherhood of Ice Makers (IBIM) and the United Snow and Ice Workers (USIW) are both organizations interested in representing the employees.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Local 354 has been accused of secondary picketing during a lawful strike.In what forum will the business experiencing the alleged secondary picketing take legal action regarding this matter?

A document containing the terms of employment and the rights and duties of the employer, the trade union, and the employees is known as

Simone and a group of her colleagues have decided that they wish to bargain collectively with their employer.In order to do so, they will need to

Arbitrators can issue awards, but they do not have the power to enforce them.

A lawyer named Albert represents a small union that is in the midst of negotiating its very first collective agreement.The main issues are ironed out but the union leader wishes to know what the minimum requirements are to make the deal enforceable.How should Albert advise his client?

Every worker in Canada has the right to join a union.