Exam 9: Contract Clauses and Their Administration

A traditional union objective is to replace arbitrary or discriminatory treatment of workers with _______________________________, an objective standard to prevent favoritism, manipulation, and abuse.

Colson Company's contract with Teamsters Local 59 specifies that supervisors are to make promotion decisions by selecting the most senior employee from a pool of qualified employees. The company is allocating promotions using:

Union and agency shop agreements are intended to minimize the ____________________________ problem that arises from a union's duty of fair representation.

Under a union shop agreement, workers can be forced to pay dues and join the union.

_______________________________ is the process of interpreting, applying, and resolving conflicts arising from a collective bargaining agreement.

Weingarten rights give union workers the right to have a union representative present at any disciplinary meeting as long as that representative does not prevent reasonable questioning of the employee by the employer.

An arbitrator that specializes in hearing grievance disputes is called an interest arbitrator.

From the union perspective, the bureaucratic system of collective bargaining contracts may achieve stability at the expense of rank and file involvement and activism.

The Steelworkers Trilogy established:

Nonunion grievance processes that end with a peer review as the final step have lower grievance filing rates than nonunion systems in which the final decision is made by a manager.

The 1960 Supreme Court decision(s) that established the importance and legitimacy of grievance arbitration is/are referred to as the ____________________.

Describe how arbitration compares to a typical court hearing. How is it different? How is it similar?

Turnover is generally higher in unionized settings than it is in nonunionized settings.

Bumping rights are a seniority provision in many union contracts which allow workers with greater tenure at a company to take the jobs of those with less seniority in the event of a layoff.

Some unions negotiate a _______________________________ clause into their contracts to ensure that when an employer sells its company, the new owner will recognize and bargain with the union.

In applying the 7 tests of just cause, a manager should ensure that any disciplinary investigation is fair and _____________________.

The notion that management retains all rights to make decisions on issues that are not explicitly addressed in the contract is called the:

Grievance procedures in a union contract are preferable to other methods of resolving workplace disputes because:

Traditional U.S. union contracts provide strict guidelines for employers, but are not legally enforceable in the United States.

Over 90% of union contracts in the private sector specify that employees can be discipline and discharged for just cause only.