collective bargaining agreement

Examples of collective bargaining agreement in the following topics:

• A Brief Definition

  • Through collective bargaining, employers and employees negotiate the conditions of employment.
  • Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching an agreement that regulates working conditions .
  • The parties often refer to the result of the negotiation as a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or as a collective employment agreement (CEA).
  • A collective agreement functions as a labor contract between an employer and one or more unions.
  • Define the monopoly union model, the right-to-manage model, and the efficient bargaining model as theories of collective bargaining

• Collective Bargaining

  • Collective bargaining is negotiation between unions and employers to come to an agreement on the conditions of employment.
  • The collective agreements reached by these negotiations attempt to establish:
  • A collective agreement functions as a labor contract between an employer and one or more unions.
  • The parties often refer to the result of the negotiation as a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or as a collective employment agreement (CEA).
  • In the United States, the National Labor Relations Act of 1953 covers most collective agreements in the private sector.

• Resolving Disagreements

  • Labor arbitration comes in two varieties: interest arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes about the terms to be included in a new contract when the parties are unable to agree, and grievance arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes over the interpretation and application of a collective bargaining agreement.
  • This type of arbitration, wherein a neutral arbitrator decides the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, is commonly known as interest arbitration.
  • Unions and employers have also employed arbitration to resolve employee and union grievances arising under a collective bargaining agreement.
  • The Court held that grievance arbitration was a preferred dispute resolution technique and that courts could not overturn arbitrators' awards unless the award does not draw its essence from the collective bargaining agreement.
  • The two sides were supposed to listen to expert testimony and come to a friendly agreement; cartoon from the Cleveland Dealer

• Employment Policy

  • United States labor law is a heterogeneous collection of state and federal laws.
  • The Act, among other things, prohibits jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts by unions, and authorizes individual states to pass "right-to-work laws", regulates pension and other benefit plans established by unions and provides that federal courts have jurisdiction to enforce collective bargaining agreements.
  • For the most part, the NLRA and RLA displace state laws that attempt to regulate the right to organize, to strike and to engage in collective bargaining.
  • The federal government, along with many state governments, also requires employers to pay the prevailing wage to workers on public works projects, a practice which typically reflects the standards established by unions' collective bargaining agreements in the area.
  • While most state and federal laws start from the presumption that workers who are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement or an individual employment agreement are "at will" employees who can be fired without notice and for no stated reason, state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination or protecting the right to organize or engage in whistleblowing activities modify that rule by providing that discharge or other forms of discrimination are illegal if undertaken on grounds specifically prohibited by law.

• Uses of the Financial Statement

• The Homestead Strike

  • With the collective bargaining agreement due to expire on June 30, 1892, Frick and the leaders of the local AA union entered into negotiations in February.
  • With the steel industry doing well and prices higher, the AA asked for a wage increase; Frick immediately countered with a 22 percent wage decrease that would affect nearly half of the union's membership and remove a number of positions from the bargaining unit.
  • Frick announced on April 30, 1892, that he would bargain for 29 more days.
  • When no collective bargaining agreement was reached on June 29, Frick locked the union out of the rest of the plant.

• Organized Labor

  • The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members (rank and file members) and negotiates labor contracts (collective bargaining) with employers.
  • The agreements negotiated by the union leaders are binding on the rank and file members and the employer and in some cases, on other non-member workers.

• Unions

  • Unions, as groups of employees interested in bargaining for specific rights and/or contractual benefits, are the responsibility of human resource professionals.
  • The labor union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labor contracts (collective bargaining) with employers.
  • The agreements negotiated by the union leaders are binding on the union members and the employer, as well as, in some cases, non-member workers.
  • Aside from collective bargaining, union activities vary, but may include the following:

• National Labor Relations Act

  • Protecting a wide range of activities, whether a union is involved or not, in order to promote organization and collective bargaining
  • Allowance of one exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of employees
  • Refusing to bargain collectively with the representative of the employer's employees
  • *Section 7 rights include: freedom of association; mutual aid or protection; self-organization; to form, join, or assist labor organizations; to bargain collectively for wages and working conditions through representatives of their own choosing; and to engage in other protected concerted activities with or without a union.
  • More recent failed amendments included attempts in 1978 to permit triple backpay awards and union collective bargaining certification based on signed union authorization cards—a provision similar to a proposed amendment in the Employee Free Choice Act.

• Negotiating

  • It is also used to agree upon courses of action, bargain for individual or collective advantages, and satisfy the various interests of people or parties involved in the negotiation.
  • Management, sales, marketing, quality control, and legal personnel may all play a part in negotiating buyer-seller contracts and agreements.