Exam 27: Organized Labour

Local 121 and Highflyers Inc management are working on a collective agreement.Local 121 is seeking to include a provision that allows bumping up.Highflyers management feels strongly that such provision should not be included because it wants to be able to

During the process of negotiating a collective agreement,Local 969 and the employer come to an impasse.The problem lies in the fact that the employer simply refuses to meet and discuss the issues.In this situation,

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

Aziz Hairdressing Emporium is a unionized business with over 100 employees.Ten of those employees have filed a grievance against their employer.The majority of the employees who are not involved with that grievance disagree with the grievance.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Until a contract is secured,any union is free to attempt to negotiate a desirable collective agreement on behalf of the bargaining unit.

After a heated argument between picketers and managers crossing the line,five workers set fire to three company cars and ruined other company property.Can management express its displeasure by firing the employees?

What should an arbitrator do when asked by the parties to interpret an ambiguous clause in a collective agreement?

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

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.

A strike is unlawful in Canada whenever it

Gus and Marty are members of the Ironworkers Union.They are skilled to work on the construction of bridges and multi-storey buildings.Each year,they pay a membership fee to the Ironworkers Union and dues are deducted from their pay cheques.In between jobs,they show up at the Ironworkers Hall to receive work assignments.The employer calls the union hall when it needs workers,requesting a certain number of workers with certain skills.The employer will only take union members.This structure is an example of

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 right of a union in a federally regulated industry to bargain collectively on behalf of employees is derived from the

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

After a strike,workers have a guaranteed right to be reinstated to their previous positions.

After a union membership drive,if more than a majority of employees in an appropriate bargaining unit become members,the unit is automatically certified in

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

Maria is a nurse at a hospital where a new three-year agreement was negotiated July 1,2012.The new agreement is deemed to take effect as of January 1,2013.It includes a provision that a 4 percent wage increase will be paid retroactively to the date the agreement was negotiated.Maria is also looking forward to 1.5 days of paid vacation leave for every month worked instead of the one day of vacation leave per month worked she received under the old collective agreement.In 2013 she hopes to take her family to a cottage for three and a half weeks.She is shocked when she tries to book her vacation and she is told that she is not entitled to take so much time.Certain that management has made a mistake,she comes to you for advice.How many days of vacation is Maria entitled to during the year 2013?

The Umbrella Workers Local 18 and Parapluie Co had come to a tentative agreement on major issues and the union members voted in favour of it.But nothing was committed to paper yet.Thinking that there were some important outstanding issues that needed to be resolved,the umbrella workers continued to strike.Parapluie Co accused the union of striking unlawfully,since an agreement was in place.May the union continue to strike?

Local 66 have recently been certified to represent the employees of a large manufacturing company.An employee,Shep,expresses his dissatisfaction with the union.Unfortunately for Shep,he will not be able to bargain on his own behalf with his employer.