What Is a Profit Center

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Essay

What is a profit center?

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Definitions:

Salting

A tactic used by unions where union workers get hired at non-union workplaces in order to organize and unionize the employees within.

Union Organizing Tactic

Strategies and methods used by labor unions to encourage and assist workers in forming or joining a union to represent their interests.

Gissel Bargaining Order

A legal order issued by the National Labor Relations Board that requires an employer to bargain with a union when majority support has been presumably achieved but undermined by unfair labor practices.

Featherbedding

A labor practice where unions require employers to hire more workers than necessary for a particular task, often to protect jobs.