20 Terms
Contributors in Labor relations
Labor relations
Arbitration
Labor; Labor relations
The referral of collective bargaining or grievance disputes to an impartial third party. Usually the arbitrator's decision is final and binding, although there is "advisory arbitration" in which the ...
American Plan
Labor; Labor relations
A post World War I employer movement which stressed freedom of industry to manage its business without union interference.
Agency shop
Labor; Labor relations
A union security clause whereby all members of a bargaining unit must pay a service fee, the equivalent of dues, whether or not they are union members.
Palmer raids
Labor; Labor relations
In 1919 20, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted raids on the headquarters of alleged radicals. Unionists, liberals, radicals, and aliens were indiscriminately arrested and around four ...
Pace setter
Labor; Labor relations
A method of speeding up work. The pace setter is a person who sets the work pace, usually at an ever higher rate, by leading the work gang and necessitating its catching up with him.
Open shop
Labor; Labor relations
A business that employs workers without regard to union membership. In the 1920s the "open shop" employed an ill disguised attempt to get ride of bona fide unions. States with "Right to Work" laws ...
One big union
Labor; Labor relations
The slogan of the IWW which stressed the inclusion of everyone, regardless of trade, into an all encompassing union. This was also the rationale for the general strike where workers in all types of ...
