Terms Associated with the Bargaining Process Essay

Define the terms associated with the bargaining process. Key terms and concepts are listed at the end of the chapters in your text.

accretion 122
appropriate bargaining unit 118
business agent 129
certification 148
community-of-interest doctrine 121
craft unit 124
deauthorization election 153
decertification election 153
departmental unit 125
exclusive representation 154
federation of unions 131
gissel doctrine 150
globe doctrine 121
industrial union 128
neutrality/card-check recognition 148
organizing drive 134
remaining unit 125
residual unit 125
runoff election 147
salting 137
secret-ballot representation election 136
showing of interest 143
stewards 129
TIPS and FORE 138
voluntoK, FOCOgnition 110Sector
As discussed in Chapter 3, the Federal Labor Relations Authority must determine an
appropriate bargaining unit for federal agencies. Borrowing from court decisions under
the National Labor Relations Act, the federal law applies a community-of-interest test
to identify an appropriate unit on an agency, plant, installation, functional, or other
basis. At the federal level, confidential employees, managers, supervisors, and
personnel employees are excluded from the bargaining unit. Professional employees
are excluded from nonprofessional units unless the professional employees vote in
favor of their own inclusion.
A community-of-interest test is also used in state and local governments that recognize
the right of the public employees to organize. However, as many states recognize only
specific groups of employees who might become organized-teachers, police officers,
firefighters-determining an appropriate unit is generally moot. However, when
necessary to define community of interest in the public sector, the following criteria
have been developed by the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations:
1. Similar wages, hours, working rules, and conditions of employment
2. Maintaining a negotiating pattern based on common history
3. Maintaining the craft or professional line status
4. Representation rights, which involve the inclusion or exclusion of supervisors or
nonprofessionals (this refers to organizations such as police or fire
departments) 40