IBEW Local 37 Membership Guide 2022

Lockout: When the employer locks workers out of their workplace
(denying employment) during a labour dispute.
Mediation: If the result of a grievance meeting remains
unsatisfactory, the union may decide to take the grievance to
mediation.
Mediator: A mediator is a third party who tries to bring the two
sides together by working toward an agreement.
Ratification Vote: A vote of bargaining unit members to accept
or reject a proposed collective agreement (or other agreement).
Shop Steward: Your trained union point-person at work who
builds unity and helps fellow members solve problems.
Solidarity: All members of the union-movement agree to help
one another in their struggles for fair wages, safe workplaces,
better benefits, and human rights.
Strike: A collective action taken by all workers in a bargaining
unit to put pressure on the employer to take their concerns
seriously by withdrawing all, or some, of their labour.
Tentative Agreement: A collective agreement agreed to by the
employer and the union, but not yet agreed to (ratified) by
bargaining unit members.
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