ADM 3334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sick Leave, Closed Shop, Open Shop
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Importance of collective agreements: workplace control and profitability, wages and benefits, seniority, layoffs, promotions, grievance and arbitration process, rights of the union, cost and availability of services. Prohibition against strikes and lockouts during term of the agreement. Minimum term of one year: voluntary terms, terms and conditions are articles/clauses/other things (can be very detailed, or broken down into different articles) Recognition (they start to re-negotiate two months before anniversary date: scope clause ( can be max 4 years and then one year at a time after that, union as bargaining agent, describe terms of unit location and jobs. Chapter 7 the collective agreement: grievance procedure. Employer grievance ( in some cases it happens but an employer wont complain about themselves: time limits. Directory time limits: probationary employees, forms of arbitration (rights arbitration, problems with arbitration. Bargaining unit work: work normally done by employees in bargaining unit, assigning work to employees outside the bargaining unit.