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This session addresses the challenges that arise when work stoppages occur directly with a member firm’s employees, such as strikes at contract expiration. It reviews primary picketing, “wobbles,” and strikes resulting from a labor impasse. The discussion also highlights key considerations, including the strike manual, interim agreements, violations of no-strike clauses, and the requirement to notify the FMCS.

Description:

This session outlines the steps an affiliate may take when a member firm faces a work stoppage caused by a labor dispute with another union or employer. It explains the concepts of secondary picketing, secondary boycotts, and area standards boycotts.

Description:

These sessions provide an overview of Trusts and their connection to collective bargaining. They explain Taft-Hartley Trusts along with other benefit-related trusts, highlighting their role in labor-management relations. The discussion also emphasizes why it is important for employers to exercise their right to allocate raises. Finally, it explores the process for allocating a raise and the distinction between benefit plan design and bargaining.

Description:

These sessions provide an overview of Trusts and their connection to collective bargaining. They explain Taft-Hartley Trusts along with other benefit-related trusts, highlighting their role in labor-management relations. The discussion also emphasizes why it is important for employers to exercise their right to allocate raises. Finally, it explores the process for allocating a raise and the distinction between benefit plan design and bargaining.

Description:

This session focuses on how employers should properly assign work, emphasizing their duty and obligation in the process. It reviews who has the authority to make these determinations and the key factors that must be considered. The discussion also addresses potential disputes, the role of the “Greenbook” and 10(k) proceedings, and the use of memos of assignment. Finally, it examines how improper assignments can lead to work stoppages and related challenges.

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This session explores how unions claim work and why “trade jurisdiction” is central to their identity and authority. It traces the history of craft workers defining work processes, and explains how jurisdiction is outlined in both the UA Constitution and collective bargaining agreements. The discussion covers the evolution of work process definitions, conflicts such as plumbers versus fitters, and jurisdictional issues between the AFL-CIO and UBC.

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This session examines the various employee classifications within the UA and collective bargaining agreements and how they affect employers. It covers roles such as journeymen, apprentices, foremen, and superintendents, as well as light commercial, service, and HVACR classifications. The discussion highlights the significance of the hiring hall for both employers and the union, clarifying who can perform specific work and why. It also reviews how UA designations may differ from local agreements and the issues that can arise.

Description:

This session uses examples to explore how national agreements function and the challenges they may create for local affiliates. It reviews agreements that can supersede local area contracts, including the role of TAUC in relation to the NMA. The discussion also addresses which agreements exclude or limit industry funds and how to handle situations where an out-of-town contractor reports that a union will not honor a national agreement.

Description:

This session explains the organizational structure of the UA, beginning with its national leadership and affiliates under the BCTD–AFL-CIO. It outlines the roles of Special Representatives and International Representatives, as well as how responsibilities flow to the local level. The discussion also highlights the structure of local unions, including the Business Manager, agents, Executive Board, organizers, and rank-and-file members.

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This discussion explores the types of disputes that can arise under collective bargaining agreements and the processes used to resolve them. It covers grievances, whether filed by employees, unions, or employers, and the role of grievance committees at both the local and IRC levels. The session also reviews different forms of arbitration and touches on jurisdictional disputes, which will be examined further in a later module.