Binding decision concerning labor disputes
Negotiation of the
labor agreement occurs during the second phase of the labor relations process
·
True
Mediators, unlike
arbitrators, do not have the authority to make a final binding decision
concerning labor disputes
·
True
The growth in part
time employment also has a small, but significant, positive impact on union
density
·
False
"Probationary
work periods" would be most desired by management when the labor market:
·
Has a high number of
unskilled employees
Powderly felt
employees who joined the KOL:
·
Needed to be educated
on major problems which they were previously unable to understand
The Homestead incident
unlike the Ludlow massacre showed the public that union and management
officials could resolve differences in a non-violent manner:
·
False
While the CIO and KOL
shared somewhat the same "one big union" concept, the CIO's goals
were more similar to the AFL than to the KOL
·
True
Employment-at-will
doctrine means that an employee has a right to a job
·
False
Which of the following
conflicted actions are permitted under sec. 7 of the LMRA?
·
None of these
The Wagner Act gave
unions considerable power, which had to be counterbalanced by passage of the
Taft-Hartley Act
·
True
Which of the following
is not a goal of the union?
·
All of these are goals
of the union
Craft unions have more
independence from their central union headquarters than industrial unions
·
True
A feature that
distinguishes the business agent of a craft union from the president of an
industrial union is that he/she:
·
administers the union
hiring hall
The process that
democratic unions, such as officer elections, make the union leaders less
responsive to the membership
·
False
Participants in the
labor relations process:
·
MGMT officials, Union
Officials, Employees, The Government, and Third-Party Neutrals
Reasons for Union
membership declining:
·
structural changes in
the labor force, organizational practices, employment law, union organizing
efforts
Labor Relation Focal
Points:
·
Work Rules (rules
governing compensation; rules specifying employees and employers job rights and
obligations)
The strength of any
organization has 4 criteria:
·
its structure and
financial stability, its ability to work within the established political and
economic system, social environment are supportive, and the ability of union
leaders to identify and satisfy member's interest
The 8-hour workday
movements and the Haymarket Riot (1886):
·
purpose for reducing
the 10-hour work day to 8-hours was to increase overall employment. The violence
turned public opinion against the KOL and labor movement
AFL slogan:
·
"Reward your
friends and punish your enemies"
The Pullman Strike
(1894):
·
The strike failed and
reunited in the elimination of an AFL rival, AFV
Merger of the AFL and
CIO:
·
death of long-time
presidents of both unions and sharing common goals to influence the political
environment
Yellow-Dog Contract
·
employment contracts
requiring and employee to refrain from all union activities or be subject to
dismissal
Shortcomings:
·
came from the
Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932. No regulatory agency designated to enforce the
act; No specific unfair labor practices for employers.
The labor relations
process consists of ______ basic phase(s)
·
3
The "Focal
Point" of labor relations represents:
·
work rules
_____ are third party
neutrals hired by the union and management officials to make a final and
binding decision on a disputed issue
·
Arbitrators
Management purchases
of automated equipment:
·
can reduce the number
and/or skills of employees in the supermarket industry
The negotiation of
compensation for and number of intervals for bus drivers reflects which
technological component:
·
the pace of work
U.S. unions believe
that "fair trade" will:
·
all of these
An analysis of 40
years of the New York Times columns concerning labor unions found that the
frequency of strikes has:
·
been exaggerated
Union officials seek
to enhance public opinion by:
·
all of these
The decline of union
membership has been attributed to:
·
all of these
The strength of any
labor organization depends on which of the following:
·
all of these
The first signs of
employee organizations in the United States occurred among:
·
skilled craftspeople
such as shoemakers
The civil war
encouraged the growth of unions as it:
·
refined and encouraged
mass production techniques which meant a concentration of new and larger force
under one factory roof
Powderly felt
employees who joined the KOL:
·
needed to be educated
on major problems which they were previously unable to understand
The Haymarket Riot:
·
represented a protest
for the eight-hour work day
"Pure and Simple
Unionism", was most identified with the:
·
American Federation of
Labor (AFL)
The KOL differed from
the IWW in that the KOL:
·
assumed employees and
employers had similar interests
______ was a
counteraction by employers against unionization:
·
all of these
The CIO split from the
AFL because of the CIO's emphasis on:
·
organizing employees
in mass-production industries
Common law comes into
being:
·
through court
decisions
Under the Railway
Labor Act, the federal agency responsible for resolving difference between the
parties when negotiating the agreements is the:
·
National Mediation
Board
The main reason the
Clayton Act did not prove to be organized labor's Magna Carta was that:
·
it made it easier for
employers to seek injunctions against unions
Which of the following
were declared unconstitutional:
·
National Industrial
Recovery Act
The major deficiencies
of the Norris-La Guardia Act, which were corrected by the passage of the Wagner
Act of 1935, were:
·
an administrative
agency was included the employer unfair labor practices were included
Employee rights under
the National Labor Relations Act include:
·
the right to form
unions and the right to bargain collectively through agent of their own
choosing
Which of the following
were not included in the Wagner Act:
·
specific union unfair
labor practices
Which of the following
actions are possible after the NLRB investigates an unfair labor practice
charge?
·
all of these
Which of the following
powers foes the NLRB possess?
·
power to effectively
reinstate unfairly discharged employees
The ______ applies to
labor relations in the airline industry
·
Railway Labor Act
If a company desires
to develop a program of positive human resources management, which of the
following practices would the company utilize?
·
have the human
resources manager report directly to top management
Elements of a positive
human resources management program include which of the following?
·
all of these
The craft unions and
the industrial unions differ in a number of areas. Which of the following is
not one of those areas?
·
attendance at and participation
in meetings
Participation in a
typical local union meeting usually varies between:
·
5 and 10 percent
Union participation in
local union activities is higher
·
all of these
An international union
representative:
·
all of these
The largest percentage
of money paid to the national union goes to
·
administration,
operational, and salary expenses
The AFL-CIO is very
active in the political arena. However, which of the following are not actions
of the AFL-CIO?
·
proclaims ties to a
national political labor party
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