Assignment: Human Resource in the Hospitality Industry

Task: Labor Relations

1. Define: Injunction

2. Identify three major provisions of The Railway Labor Act of 1926.

3. Identify three major provisions of The Norris La Guardia Act of 1932.

4. Identify three major provisions of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.

5. Identify three major provisions of the Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Harley Amendments).

6. Identify three major provisions of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

7. What issues are considered 'mandatory' bargaining issues?

8. How do mandatory bargaining issues, voluntary bargaining issues and illegal bargaining issues differ?

9. Define what is meant by 'economic reasons for bargaining? Describe economic issues.

10. What are six non-economic issues typically important to unions during collective bargaining?

11. When can an impasse be declared?

12. What are the differences between management rights clauses and just cause clauses?

13. Describe the seven tests of just cause.

14. What are the differences between distributive bargaining and integrative bargaining?

15. Define intra-organizational bargaining?

16. What is boulwarism and is it typically a good negotiation strategy? Why?

17. Describe the difference between mediation and arbitration.

18. Define a strike.

19. Identify and describe the two types of LEGAL strikes.

20. Identify and describe three sources of grievances.

21. List three tactics employers can use to prevent grievances.

22. Give an overview of an effective progressive discipline program.

23. Define Weingarten Rights.

24. An is a court order by which an individual is required to perform, or is restrained from performing a particular act.

25. Identify the Act that required railroad employers to negotiate with their employees duly elected representatives.