Exam 12: Dealing With Union and Employeemanagement Issues

Under ________,workers are not required to join the union,but those who do not join are still required to pay a union fee or regular dues to the union.

Even in their infancy,the main goal of most labor unions was to provide members with increased management power.

If a union is present in a firm that has an)_________ shop arrangement,workers may join the union if they wish,but they are not required to join or pay a union fee in order to keep their jobs.

The workers at the Kerriton Company are unhappy with the way their union has been representing them.The Wagner Act allows these workers to take away the union's right to represent them through a process known as decertification.

John belongs to a labor union.He believes a few key people run the union by meeting secretly and making decisions without informing other members or allowing them to fully participate in the meetings.If John's suspicions are correct,the union is violating provisions of the __________ Act.

During the 1980s unions became increasingly concerned with the issues of job security and union recognition.

The Norris-LaGuardia Act prohibited courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent union activities.

Brantwell,Inc.is a forward thinking company planning to implement a program to help its employees provide care for their elderly parents.According to recent trends,Brantwell's new program should result in future cost savings.

Although the general public often sees the compensation of CEOs of major U.S.corporations as being much too high,the pay and benefits these top executives receive is actually quite similar to what is earned by top executives in other countries with market economies.

When union members who have a dispute with a company walk around outside the firm's place of business carrying signs and talking to the media and public about their concerns,they are using a tactic known as:

Women have become a __________ part of the labor force.

The Zendor Corporation operates a manufacturing plant in Bellridge.The work is arranged in an assembly line and is performed by semiskilled and unskilled workers.These workers are looking into obtaining union representation.The type of union they would belong to would be classified as an industrial union.

Many companies do not provide any formal training for dealing with prevention of violence in the workplace.

In recent years federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid have greatly reduced the financial burden on families faced with caring for elderly adults.

Over the past several decades,the compensation of CEOs of large U.S.corporations has:

Identify and discuss three controversial employee-management issues.

One strategy unions must adapt in order to grow in the future is to:

A lockout is a tactic utilized by unions when collective bargaining breaks down.

The National Institute of Health estimates that each drug abuser can cost an employer approximately __________ annually.

Ty Runt has always taken a hard line against unionization efforts.Two years ago,when workers at his previous company tried to obtain union representation,the company closed down the plant and refused to let employees work until they abandoned their efforts to form a union.This management tactic is called an):