BHR 4350 Unit VIII – Collective Bargaining
BHR 4350 Unit VIII – Collective Bargaining
Subject: Business / Management
Question
Unit VIII
Collective Bargaining
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. 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. 3) Match each description to the correct term.
A. – Workers who cross picket lines to
Past practice
work when union employees are on
strike.
B.
Arbitrability
– – The challenge of whether a disputed C.
issue is subject to arbitration under
Rights arbitration
the terms of the contract.
D.
Retaliation
Sufficient or proper reasons for
which management has the right to E.
discipline or discharge employees.
Common law of the shop – 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. F.
Sickout
G.
Just cause
H.
Scabs – – Recognition of the bargaining
history of those in the same industry
to determine the respective rights of I.
the parties involved in a labor
Steelworkers’ trilogy
dispute.
J.
Arbitration
Certain actions taken by employers
or unions that violate the NLRA.
K.
Weingarten rule – Process in which the parties
L.
involved agree to submit an
Unfair labor practices
unresolved dispute to a neutral third
party, shoes? Decision is final and M.
binding.
Lincoln Mills case
– Unlawful means of conducting a
strike.
– Submission to arbitration for the
interpretation or application of
current contract terms.
– Three 1960 Supreme court rulings
that upheld the grievance arbitration
process and limited judicial
intervention. N.
Arbitrator’s award
