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Class Period:    \nCompleted Worksheet Weapons Used by Employers and Unions  \n\n| Employer Weapons | Union Weapons |\n| --- | --- |\n| AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT: Employer can terminate employee for any reason, so long as it is not an illegal reason (such as firing someone based on race or sex) . | BOYCOTT: Workers and sympathizers refuse to buy the products of a company which is in a dispute with its workers. |\n| BLACKLIST: A list of the names of employees who are union activists, used to deny them work. | CHECK-OFF: Deductions are regularly taken from a worker’s paycheck to cover union dues. |\n| COMPANY UNIONS: Company-controlled organization for handling workers’ grievances that mimics an employee union. | CLOSED SHOP: A company may hire only union members. |\n| INDIVIDUAL BARGAINING: Negotiations and agreements made separately with individual workers. | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: Negotiations and agreements made by elected representatives of all union members. |\n| INJUNCTION: Court order which stops workers from picketing or striking. | DIRECT POLITICAL ACTION: Official union endorsement of a political candidate. |\n| LAWS LIMITING UNION ACTIVITIES: Rules or laws which curtail union activities, such as rules against recruiting union members on company property and/or during working hours. | FAVORABLE LABOR LEGISLATION: Rules or laws which meet union demands, such as laws limiting the hours of work and requiring safe working conditions. |\n| LOCKOUT: The closing of a factory and denial of work designed to force employees to agree to employer demands. | FEATHER-BEDDING: The creation or maintenance of work where profit-wise, there is none; can involve the slowing down of work or the continuation of jobs which are subject to technological unemployment (e.g. , train engineers and conductors who kept their jobs after train cabooses no longer required their services) . |\n| OPEN SHOP: Employer may hire both union and nonunion labor. | LOBBYING: Union efforts to influence lawmakers. |\n| OUTSOURCING: Removing portions of the factory’s production to other firms (typically nonunionized) in order to reduce the amount of work done by unionized employees. | PICKETING: Union members and their supporters walk around the perimeter of a factory or business to discourage strikebreakers from entering the structure as well as to urge the public to support a boycott of the company. |\n| RELOCATION: Company moves the factory to a location that has weaker or nonexistent unions. | SABOTAGE: Malicious destruction or willful waste of company property. |\n| RIGHT-TO-WORK LAWS: Laws that allow workers to get and keep a job regardless of union membership. | STRIKES: Organized work stoppages. |\n| WELFARE CAPITALISM: Provision of benefits to employees to dissuade workers from joining a union. | UNION LABEL: Seal placed on manufactured goods to indicate that the goods were manufactured using union labor. |\n| YELLOW-DOG CONTRACT: Agreement between employee and employer that employee will not join a union. | UNION SHOP: All employees of the shop must join the union within 30 days of starting work there. |","cbCaimYN0IONpFco","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimYN0IONpFco","pdf",156483,"English","# Weapons Used by Employers and Unions\n## Employer Weapons\n## Union Weapons","[{\"question\":\"What does “at-will employment” mean in the worksheet?\",\"answer\":\"The worksheet states the employer can terminate an employee for any reason, as long as it is not an illegal reason such as firing someone based on race or sex.\"},{\"question\":\"How does “check-off” work according to the worksheet?\",\"answer\":\"“Check-off” is described as regular deductions taken from a worker’s paycheck to cover union dues.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the difference between “individual bargaining” and “collective bargaining”?\",\"answer\":\"Individual bargaining involves negotiations and agreements made separately with individual workers, while collective bargaining involves negotiations 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