Exam 12: Dealing With Union and Employeemanagement Issues

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

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the third leading cause of job-related fatalities is homicide.

The CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) organized unskilled and semiskilled workers into:

A union security clause in a labor-management agreement stipulates that employees who benefit from a union must either officially join or at least pay dues to the union.

Labor and management at the Brookwood Company have reached an impasse in their efforts to negotiate an acceptable labor- management agreement. The two sides have agreed to bring in an arbitrator. If the arbitrator issues a ruling that the union does not like, it can veto the decision.

Labor unions were largely responsible for:

Studies conducted at the University of Michigan found that earnings of women graduating with baccalaureate degrees were:

Anna believes that her manager violated the terms of the negotiated labor-management agreement when he required her to report to work on a holiday. She has discussed her concerns with her shop steward and he agrees with her. It is likely the steward will encourage Anna to:

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:

One of the things that labor is interested in is fair and competent management.

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

The Taft-Hartley Act strengthened unions by giving them the right to engage in featherbedding and secondary boycotts.

Collective bargaining is the process whereby union and management representatives negotiate a labor-management agreement, or contract, for workers.

Under a(n) shop agreement, workers must belong to the union before they are hired.

Membership in labor unions has grown steadily over the past 50 years.

Membership in industrial unions was strictly limited to skilled craftspeople.

The law protects both women and men from sexual harassment.

The first federal minimum wage was established by the:

The Supreme Court ruled in 1938 that employers had the right to hire strikebreakers.

Although child-care concerns have become a pressing issue for many employees, most firms have been unable to find acceptable solutions to these concerns.