16.Public Sector Labor Law- Civil Service Reform Act

Define

17.Wright Line Test – What is its purpose?

18.Define:

a.Job control unionism

b.Employee empowerment unionism

c.Social movement unionism

d.Business unionism

19.The Structure of the Labor Movement (Define and define as is relates to The structure of the labor movement)

a.Union density

b.Local unions, national unions, general unions

c.Mergers

d.Competing National Union Federations

i.AFL-CIO

ii.Change to Win

20.The organizing process -Know the steps in the organizing campaign.

Know (but limited to) the following: (Define and define as it relates to the organizing process)

a.Union Tactics

i.Type of campaigns:

1.strategic campaign

2.illegal campaign

3.opportunistic campaign

4.decertification campaign

ii.salting

iii.The iron rule of organizing

b.Voluntary recognition

c.Employer Tactics

i.What employers can and can’t do- employee rights

ii.No solicitation rule

iii.Using avoidance consultants

d.Percentages needed at each step

e.What does an authorization card say?

f.What is a bargaining unit and how is it defined?

g.What is the process to decertify a union?

i.Contract Bar Doctrine

h.Who would be considered a supervisor?

21.

Modern labor laws

• Prelude laws that you need to know:
  • Norris-Laguardia
  • National Industrial Recovery Act
  • The Railway Labor Act
• Laws that you really need to know:
  • Wagner Act
  • Taft-Hartly
  • Landrum-Griffin

22.Current issues

a.Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) – provisions and significance

b.Secret Ballot Protection Act

c.NLRB Resolutions (You don’t need to memorize these but you do need to know the significance.)