Exam 12: Dealing With Union and Employeemanagement Issues

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.

Union leaders at the Baadfathe Corporation are furious. Although the union's certified by the NLRB, its negotiating team has had little success in getting management to meet with them to work on a new labor contract. In fact, during the last 3 months, the management team has agreed to meet only twice, once on a weekend, and the other time after 8:00 p.m. Even during those two meetings, the management team was unwilling to offer serious proposals. Baadfathe's management team should review the legal rights of union members to participate in collective bargaining, as provided under the:

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.

The Knights of Labor, the first national labor organization, offered membership to all working people, including employers.

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

Union shops are illegal in the state of North Carolina. This means that North Carolina:

The strike historically has been the most powerful weapon unions use to achieve their objectives in labor disputes.

Two important provisions concerning the certification or decertification process administered by the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) are:

Which of the following tactics would management be most likely to use during a labor-management dispute?

In 1997, the Supreme Court rendered a decision on a case stipulating that sexual harassment law:

In the Making Ethical Decisions box, students are asked to consider what they would do if they had the opportunity to be employed as a strikebreaker, at a company where friends and family were currently out of work and on strike. If they choose to do so, they are immediately hired as full-time workers.

During its early years, the AFL tried to expand as rapidly as possible by recruiting both skilled and unskilled workers.

Geraldo works on the assembly line for a major automobile manufacturer. He was hired for the job without any specific training or skill. Geraldo joined a union with other assembly-line workers who perform a variety of jobs that do not require a highly specialized skill. Geraldo belongs to a(n):

The Labor-Management Relations Act (or Taft-Hartley Act) can be best described as a law which:

In 1955, after the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, the AFL and CIO merged to create the AFL-CIO.

Elder care costs are likely to remain a major issue for businesses for many years.

The fact that workers sometimes serve on the board of directors of European companies helps explain why:

It is estimated that firms lose annually in productivity, absenteeism, and employee turnover due to caring for aging parents.

The guaranteed union members the right to nominate candidates for union office and participate in union meetings.

Throughout most of American history, the relationship between managers and employees has been fairly smooth.