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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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Union
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An organization of skilled specialists in a particular craft or trade
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Craft Union
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Consists of unskilled and semi-skilled workers in mass production industries such as automobile manufacturing and mining
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Industrial Union
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A measure of the percentage of workers who belong to unions
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Union Density
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The process whereby union and management representatives negotiate a contract for workers
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Collective Bargaining
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Formal process whereby a union is recognized by the Labour Relations Board as the bargaining agent for a group of employees
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Certification
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Process by which workers can take away a union's right to represent them
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Decertification
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Agreement that clarifies the terms and conditions and sets the tone under which management and labour agree to function over a period of time
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Negotiated Labour-Management Agreement
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Provision in a negotiated labour-management agreement that stipulates that employees who benefit from a union must either officially join or at least pay dues to the union
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Union Security Clause
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A workplace in which all new hires must already be union members
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Closed Shop
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A workplace in which the employer is free to hire anybody, but the recruit must then join the union within a short period, perhaps a month
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Union shop
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A workplace in which a new employee is not required to join the union but must pay union dues
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Agency Shop
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A workplace in which employees are free to join or not join the union and to pay or not pay union dues
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Open Shop
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A contract clause requiring the employer to deduct union dues from employees' pay and remit them to a union
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Check-off Clause
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A formal protest by an individual employee, with the support of the union, when they believe that management is not abiding by or fulfilling the terms of a labour contract
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Grievance
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