Common Cause, a trade union for construction workers, recently took up the case of a worker whose was injured on-site and given no compensation by Hilson Developers. Since incidents like this were frequent, Common Cause began negotiating safer conditions of employment for construction workers with the Federation of Urban Developers. After three rounds of talks, the Federation was still unwilling to increase safety measures. It also refused to increase the compensation for an injured worker and his/her family until the employee was fit to re-join work as it was a nonproductive expenditure. The trade union representatives held onto their stance that since most construction workers were daily wage laborers, they were completely dependent on the developers to provide compensation when they were injured and unable to work. The contract negotiations have now come to a stand still. This is an example of a _____.
A) bargaining impasse
B) slowdown
C) checkoff provision
D) lockout
E) jurisdictional strike

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The scenario describes a situation where contract negotiations have come to a standstill due to the parties being unable to reach an agreement, which is known as a bargaining impasse. A slowdown refers to intentionally working slowly to put pressure on the employer, a checkoff provision refers to a situation where the employer deducts union dues from employee wages and remits them to the union, a lockout is a situation where the employer prevents employees from working by closing down the place of work, and a jurisdictional strike is a strike by a union to assert its members' right to perform work assigned to them under the collective bargaining agreement. None of these situations apply to the scenario described.

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