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Bargaining Unit

A group of employees represented by a union or other organization that is permitted to engage in collective bargaining with an employer.

bargaining unit

see COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

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In fact, the bargaining strength of such units is so weak that, between 1976 and 1986, only 50 per cent of all certified bargaining units in Ontario secured a first collective agreement.

Labour needs sectoral bargaining now

A 1973 amendment to the National Labor Relations Act placed hospital bargaining units into one of three catetories: professional, nonprofessional, or guards.

A major crisis looms for labs

O'Brien has also initiated the process for more layoffs, having formally notified the city's municipal employee unions of his plans and identifying the number of positions that require layoffs in each bargaining unit.

Manager did the talk ... and walk

Of AFSCME's 22 state-government bargaining units, 12 of them, which represent 20 percent of the union's state-worker members, already have voted to accept the contract.

Public employee unions, state agree on pay terms

Studies have examined how organizing outcomes are affected by the political, economic, and legal climate; individual workers' attitudes toward their work and the labor movement; employer characteristics and tactics; and bargaining unit demographics.

The role of union strategies in NLRB certification elections

The study population was 319 public two-year colleges, 189 of which had faculty bargaining units and 130 of which did not have faculty bargaining.

A Comparison of Funding Priorities in Two Year Institutions with and without Faculty Collective Bargaining. ASHE 1983 Annual Meeting Paper

As I mentioned earlier we have over 30 locals or local bargaining units, which creates the union arm of our organization.

Executive director report

Each representative on the committee would hold a vote weighted to the proportion of employees from their bargaining unit eligible for health insurance, measured against the total number of eligible employees in all bargaining units.

Retirees' health plan options weighed; City manager says his opinion final word

Both samples are stratified by the size of the bargaining unit: the 1985 sample includes 100% of the strikes in the 1985 FMCS population involving bargaining units of 1,000 or more workers and a random sample of 13% of the strikes in that population involving bargaining units of fewer than 1,000 workers; and the 1989 sample includes 100% of die strikes in the 1989 FMCS population involving bargaining units of 1,000 or more workers and a random sample of 20% of the strikes in that population involving bargaining units of fewer than 1,000 workers.

The empirical relations between employers' striker replacement strategies and strike duration

In a ruling that may have a far-reaching effect on the health care industry, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 1989 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determination that established "appropriate bargaining units" of hospital employees for collective bargaining purposes (American Hospital Association V.