Exam 12: Dealing With Union and Employeemanagement Issues

If you work for a foreign company doing business in the U.S., you are subject to the same sexual harassment laws as anyone working in the U.S.

Some contend that the main reason membership in labor unions has declined in recent years has been the passage of anti-labor legislation in the late 1980s that guaranteed all employees of a firm the same wages and benefits whether they joined a union or not.

According to the material in the "Spotlight on Small Business" box in Chapter 12, a relatively recent trend is for many to join unions.

Samuel Gompers believed that collective bargaining was likely to be an ineffective way for unions to achieve their objectives.

As an employee of the human resource department of a major corporation, you are concerned about the potential costs of drug abuse. You are contemplating testing employees for substance abuse. Before adopting such tests, you should know that:

In recent years, many unions have granted concessions on working conditions and wages in order to save jobs.

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.

Closed shops were declared illegal by the:

Mississippi has passed a right-to-work law, which means that union shops are illegal in the state.

Some business observers contend that the previous success of labor unions is a reason for the decline of labor unions.

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

Marco is the newly appointed CEO of the Sine of the Times Corporation. The board of directors approved an attractive stock option package as part of his total compensation. From this information, you would assume that one of the board's objectives is to stabilize the value of Sine of the Times' stock by preventing it from rising or falling more than a small percentage.

One way the Teamsters Union plans to increase membership is by reaching out to women in traditionally non-union occupations like health care.

The process of bringing in an impartial third party to render a binding decision in a labor dispute is referred to as:

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

One goal of the Landrum-Griffin Act was to clean up union corruption.

Under an open shop agreement, workers have the option to join or not join a union, if one is present in the workplace.

A common tactic of management in labor disputes is the use of secondary boycotts.

Hiring strikebreakers to replace striking workers was historically a common management tactic during labor disputes, but it is seldom used today.

The use of strikebreakers did not become a common management tactic used in labor disputes until the 1980s.