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Union
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An employee organization that has the main goal of representing members in employee-management bargaining over job-related issues
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Craft union
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An organization of skilled specialists in a particular craft or trade
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Knights of labor
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The first national labor union; formed in 1869
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American federation of labor (AFL)
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An organization of craft unions that championed fundamental labor issues; founded in 1886
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Industrial unions
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Labor organizations of unskilled and semiskilled workers in mass-production undustries such as automobiles and mining
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Congress of industrial organizations (CIO)
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Union organization of unskilled workers;broke away from the american federation of labor (AFL) in 1935 and rejoined it in 1955
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Yellow-dog contract
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A type of contract that required emoployees to agree as a condition of employment not to join a union; prohibited by the norris-laguardia act in 1932
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Collective bargaining
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The process whereby union and management representatives form a labor-management agreement, or contract, for workers
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Certification
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Formal process whereby a union is recognized by the national labor relations board (NLRB) as the bargaining agent for a group of employees
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Decertification
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The process by which workers take away a unions right to represent them
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Negotiated labor-management agreement (labor contract)
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Agreement that sets the tone and clarifies the terms under which management and labor agree to function over a period of time
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Union security clause
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Provision in a negotiated labor-management agreement that stipulates that emplowees who benefit from a union must either officially join or at least pay dues to the union
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Closed shop agreement
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Clause in a labor-management agreement that specified workers had to be members of a union before being hired
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Union shop agreement
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Clause in labor management agreement that syas workers do not have to be members of a union to be hired but must agree to join the union within a presecribed period
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Agency shop agreement
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Clause in a labor management agreement that says employers may hire nonunion workers; employees are not required to join the union but must pay union fee
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