
VOCABULARY BUILDER 2/2/2024
Quiz by Mr. Estoesta
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Is the process in which working people, through their unions, negotiate contracts with their employers to determine their terms of employment, pay benefits, job health and others.
a. proper bargaining
b. collective bargaining
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights.
a. labor union
b. human rights
Ensuring the pay for employees is set at a level that is both fair and livable, and provides equal pay for equal work. It covers the overall compensation process.
a. fair compensation
b. tax wages
A person who owns or manages a farm.
a. farmer
b. agriculturist
Is a direct tax which is levied on the net income of private individuals and corporate profits.
a. real property tax
b. income tax
The ability to influence situations or people so that you can control what happens.
a. intensity
b. leverage
In which votes are cast in secret.
a. secret ballot
b. secret election
Take place to select office holders in local government, such as mayors and councilors. Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as "municipal elections"
a. state elections
b. local elections
Means a general, primary, or congressional vacancy election, a special legislative election involving more than one county, a ballot issue election involving a candidate or ballot issue for a district of state concern.
a. local election
b. state election
Provide historical documentation of the need for policy as well as the process used to create it. They are permanent records that are filed with the original copy of the approved policy.
a. policy proposal
b. state proposal
The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community. A material well being of the average person in a given population.
a. cost of living
b. standard of living
The economic problem is the fundamental challenge facing all societies, which is how to satisfy unlimited wants and needs with limited resources.
a. economic challenge
b. culture challenge
The state of having a job that is secure and from which one is unlikely to be dismissed. A sense of knowing that your job is safe from being cut.
a. job security
b. work space
Are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privileges', political power, or skill in a group.
a. political elites
b. social class people
A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.
a. insurance
b. wages
An advantage or profit gained from something. A payment or gift made by an employer, the state, or an insurance company.Â
a. wages
b. benefits
The process of protecting employees from work related illness and injury. It starts8 by developing a company Environmental, Safety and Health Policy statement and implementation of a work place safety plan and program.
a. workplace safety
b. work policies
A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.
a. rally
b. grievance
The gradual development of something especially from a simple to a more complex form.
a. revolution
b. evolution
Refer to the body of domestic or international law that apply in a particular country, that give structure to the relationship between the state and population, and define the parameters for legal conduct.
a. regulation framework
b. legal framework
A person who is publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.
a. advocate
b. dovotee
Labor unions give workers collective bargaining power by negotiating employment terms and conditions.Â
Unions may not negotiate for higher wages, not ensuring that workers receive competitive and fair compensation
Labor Unions play a very important role in protecting job security for their members. They may negotiate provisions that limit layoffs or ensure fair treatment in cases of downsizing or restructuring.
While unions empower workers, they cannot pose challenges for employers.
Strikes can be a powerful tool for unions to leverage their demands during negotiations.
Political elites are small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group
Income tax is a direct tax which is levied on the net income of private individuals and corporate profits
Evolution is a very slow form of development of something especially from a simple to a more complex form.
Wages is a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis. made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.