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As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. An organization utilizes union labor and non-union labor in their operations. The
The correct answer is A. Double Breasting Picketing. When an employer operates both union and non-union workforces and the union pickets the non-union side, this is called double breasting picketing. It arises specifically in 'double breasted' arrangements where union and non-union operations coexist within the same organization.
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As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. An organization utilizes union labor and non-union labor in their operations. The union goes on a strike; so the organization shifts work to the non- union labor to offset the effects of the strike. If the union labor decides to picket the operations of the non-union labor, what term is assigned to this process?
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- ADouble Breasting Picketing
- BCommon situs picketing
- CWildcat strikes
- DSympathy strike
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- C11% (4)
- D3% (1)
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When an employer operates both union and non-union workforces and the union pickets the non-union side, this is called double breasting picketing. It arises specifically in 'double breasted' arrangements where union and non-union operations coexist within the same organization.
Double breasting picketing occurs when a company simultaneously operates union and non-union entities - an arrangement known as 'double breasting.' When the union extends its strike pressure by picketing the non-union operation to prevent work from being shifted there, the act is specifically termed double breasting picketing under labor law.
Common situs picketing refers to a union picketing an entire shared job site where neutral, uninvolved employers also operate, not the picketing of a related non-union operation within the same company structure.
A wildcat strike is an unauthorized work stoppage initiated by workers without official union sanction, which is unrelated to the act of picketing a non-union operation.
A sympathy strike is when workers cease work in solidarity with a different union's dispute rather than their own, and does not describe picketing activity directed at a non-union workforce.
Concept tested: Double breasting picketing in union labor law
Source: https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes-lockouts-and-picketing
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