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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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As a result of these discussions, tentative four-year extension agreements with OPSEU's Unified and Correctional Bargaining Units have been reached.

Canada : Ontario Reaches Tentative Extension Agreements with OPSEU

The NLRB decision allows the contingent staffing company workers to join with the primary employer's workforce in creating these bargaining units without consent from either employer.

I don't want to scare you, but..

Allowing just 223 workers to set up their own bargaining unit could lead to "fragmentation" of employees, with lots of small groups "competing" for the best terms and conditions.

Lidl loses its appeal over staff group

Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit recently granted an Aggregate Industries petition for review of a National Labor Relations Board decision involving the transfer of work between Construction and Ready-Mix bargaining unit drivers represented by Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers Local 631, Las Vegas.

'Bad' bargaining not Aggregate Industries' style

Each bargaining unit functions differently, and each bargaining unit has a "better" way of hearing from its members.

The old adage: communicating is key

Overall, experts say that San Miguel reminds in-house counsel at acute-care facilities that even though the Health Care Rule outlines eight specific appropriate bargaining units, the board may allow any combination of those.

Court tosses hospital's challenge to NLRB health care rule

A bargaining unit is not defined in the legislation, and there is no requirement that workers who sign union cards must be employed full time.

Much ado about ... "card check": passage of the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act is organized labor's top priority

In it, one of the authors suggested that professors may be easily replaceable and thus collective bargaining units could find a new avenue of survival with health, disability, pensions, life insurance and other amenities for the growing army of adjuncts, Snell (2000:8)

Replaceable Professors: An Observation

The CAC must take into account the need for the unit to be compatible with effective management and the employer's and the unions views; existing national and local bargaining arrangements; the desirability of avoiding small fragmented bargaining units within an undertaking; the characteristics of workers in the proposed bargaining unit and of the employer's other workers whom the CAC considers relevant; and the location of workers.

The new right to compulsory trade union recognition: Jonathan Exten-Wright is a partner in the Employment Law Department of DLA. Here he looks at the latest legislation on unions. (Business Matters)

Hebdon and Stern (1998) found lower arbitration rates among bargaining units of part-time workers, thus providing evidence that contingent workers are less prone to expressions of conflict than are other workers.

The effects of industrial relations factors on health and safety conflict

Single-employer, single-location bargaining units limit union power.

Labour needs sectoral bargaining now

The chapters on representation case procedure, election procedure, and bargaining units are guidebooks by themselves.