Exam 12: Dealing With Union and Employeemanagement Issues

According to the "Reaching Beyond Our Borders" box in Chapter 12, global labor movements are forming to emphasize the setting of global labor standards.

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.

In the future, unions are likely to leave training and recruitment of workers to management, and focus instead on encouraging those workers to join the union.

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:

The spread of AIDS within the U.S. has declined in recent years.

The Norris-LaGuardia Act prohibits firms from requiring workers to agree not to join a union as a condition of their employment.

A large number of striking workers are currently picketing at the plant entrance to a Memphis Tire and Rubber plant. Because the pickets have threatened people entering the plant and have vandalized some company property, Memphis' management believes it has just cause to ask the courts for a(n) placing limits on the number of pickets and their actions while picketing.

The leadership of was instrumental in bringing about the merger between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.

The disparity in salaries is clearly reflected in the fact that in 2007, the average CEO compensation for a major company was $12.8 million, compared to a little more than $35,000 that the average worker was compensated.

Unions have used givebacks as a tactic to increase membership of a culturally diverse workforce.

Reece discovered that a male coworker is paid $1.50 per hour more than she is even though they have the same job title, have similar qualifications, and have been employed the same length of time. Unfortunately for Reece, it is legal for the hospital to pay different salaries to different workers who perform the same job.

CEOs only earn high salaries and bonuses when their companies earn substantial profits.

The guaranteed the rights of individual union members when dealing with their union.

Unions in Europe historically have held more influence in the workplace than unions have in the United States.

Postal workers and other employees of the federal government who provide important services are allowed to form unions, but are denied the right to strike.

Workers at the West Fenton plant of Malzone Industries have gone out on strike. Management believes it could continue operating the plant during the strike by hiring replacement workers. If the company hires nonunion workers to continue its operations, it will be violating a recent Supreme Court ruling that declared hiring replacement workers as a violation of the Wagner Act.

The Norris-LaGuardia Act made it more difficult for unions to legally recruit new members.

The AFL-CIO was a major of the NAFTA agreement passed by Congress in 1994.

Arbitration and mediation are alike in that both involve an impartial third party to help in the negotiation process. The differences in these two approaches is that an arbitrator's decision is binding - both parties agree to this on the front end; a mediator encourages the two conflicting parties to continue to negotiate and may make suggestions in pursuit of a resolution.

A major reason John L. Lewis and his followers broke with the AFL and formed the CIO was that: