For the Week ending 09/02/11
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
negotiation between management and labor mediated and decided by neutral third party
One of the reasons companies use _______ is because it prevents their dirty laundry from being aired (since there's also no record kept). |
mutual setting of policy by labor and management
Industrialists agreed to trade union demands for a _______ law, giving labor a share in the management of the coal and steel industries. |
practice of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are needed or to limit their production in keeping with a safety regulation or union rule.
To protect jobs of members in an ever-more automated world, they negotiated work rules like "_______" in railroads and "bogus type" in the printing trade that increased labor costs without improving productivity. |
Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
Some people steal time from their employer, called _______, or steal goods from their employer, called pilfering. |
Marxist term for workers with no capital or means of production; the poorest class of working people
Simon that saw himself as a noble voice of the _______ raging against the encroaching dictatorship of a brutal conformity. |