10th edition Test Guide.
union - Answer An employee organization whose main goal is representing its members in
employee-management negotiation of job-related issues
craft union - Answer An organization of skilled specialists in a particular craft or trade
knights of labor - Answer The first national labor union; founded 1869
American federation of labor (AFL) - Answer An organization of craft unions that championed
fundamental labor issues; founded in 1886
industrial unions - Answer Labor organizations of unskilled and semiskilled workers in mass-
production industries such as automobiles and mining
congress of industrial organizations (CIO) - Answer union organizations of unskilled workers;
broke away from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1935 and rejoined it in 1955
yellow-dog contract - Answer A type of contract that required employees to agree as a
condition of employment not to join a union; prohibited by the Norris-LaGuardia Act in 1932
collective bargaining - Answer The process whereby union and management representatives
form a labor-management agreement, or contract, for workers
certification - Answer Formal process whereby a union is recognized by the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB) as the bargaining agent for the group of employees
decertification - Answer The process by which workers take away a union's right to represent
them
negotiated labor-management agreement (labor contract) - Answer Agreement that sets the
tone and clarifies the terms under which management and labor agree to function over a period
of time