Exam 12: Dealing With Union and Employeemanagement Issues

__________ are workplaces with undesirable,and often unsafe and oppressive working conditions.

Strikes have been an effective way of settling labor disputes without violence and bitterness.

Under an agency shop agreement,only union members are represented at the bargaining table.

Samuel Gompers believed that ___________ was the key to attaining a fairer share of the economic pie for American workers.

Exceptional Enterprises launched a program to evaluate the relative levels of skills,education,and training needed to perform various jobs.Based on the results of this evaluation,the firm intends to adjust pay scales so that jobs requiring similar levels of skills,abilities,and education will receive similar pay.Exceptional Enterprises' program is an attempt to deal with the issue of:

An)___________ is a union official who works permanently in an organization and represents employee interests on a daily basis.

The NLRB oversees the decertification of unions.An employer the company owners)can petition and seek the signatures of 30% of the employees in order to decertify the union - in other words,officially,the union could no longer represent the employees in any bargaining negotiations.

In the next few years,unions are likely to find that they must adopt a tough,confrontational approach in order to get what they want from management.

An)___________ occurs when management temporarily closes a business to deny employment to workers.

Today labor unions have seen a revitalization of support and union membership has increased significantly.

At the Grenchit Corporation the union and management have not been able to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement on a grievance.The two sides have agreed to bring in an)_________ who will examine the evidence and arguments on both sides and issue a binding decision.

The number of households that face the burden of caring for one or more elderly parents has increased significantly over the past decade.

As reported in the New York Times in November,2008,Ron Gettelfinger,President of the U. A.W.United Auto Workers Union)testified with auto executives in front of the U.S.Congress,saying,"The U.A.W.can't be the low-hanging fruit...While we're at the table,we're asking that others come in and sacrifice as well." Mr.Gettelfinger was referring to the several ___________ that the autoworkers' union had agreed to over the past few years in order to save jobs and particularly keep retirement benefits intact.

___________ are workers a company hires to replace workers who are out on strike.

The _____________ outlawed the use of yellow-dog contracts and prohibited courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent union activities.

Antonio received specific training to become an electrician.He belongs to a union with other skilled electricians.Antonio belongs to an):

In 2011,public employees who worked for the state of Wisconsin were overruled by a vote in the state senate which disallowed these employees or their union representatives to negotiate with other decision makers on issues which affected their labor contracts.The new law directly affected their ______ rights.

In the early years,there were power struggles among the larger national unions.Leaders recognized that there was power in numbers.After the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947,

Tom Dash works as a researcher studying the effects of alcohol and drug abuse at a large research university on the east coast.The alcohol center's mission statement reads,"Our mission is to conduct,coordinate,and promote basic and clinical research on the causes,prevention,and treatment of alcoholism and alcoholic disease." Looking forward,which of the following statements are you likely to agree with?

Rose is a human resources manager for a rapidly growing corporation.The firm recently hired one hundred new workers,ten of whom were involved in workplace accidents soon after they were hired.It was determined that alcohol usage was the cause of these accidents.Top management has asked Rose to do a better job in screening potential workers for alcohol abuse to avoid this in the future.Rose should point out that in fact the ten percent of the recent-hires with alcohol issues is actually much lower than the overall percentage of employees with alcohol issues that are involved in industrial injuries and fatalities in the U.S.