Exam 9: Resolving Negotiation Impasses and Contract Ratification

In most cases, a wildcat strike is a violation of the labor agreement.

The "reserve gate" approach involves the establishment of an exclusive gate for entry and exit of all employees on strike.

An unfair labor practice strike is a strike in reaction to an employer's refusal to bargain in good faith with the union.

Picket signs must clearly identify the primary employer as the target of the picket activity and only urge a boycott of the primary employer's products or services, not a total boycott of all products or services sold by the neutral, secondary employer.

Conventional interest arbitration has been criticized because arbitrators have been accused of "splitting the difference".

Economic strikers may be either temporarily or permanently replaced by an employer for the purpose of continuing normal business operations.

At the end of the 80-day injunction under the National Emergency Procedures of the LMRA, the president is authorized to:

Factors that might affect what constitutes a ''reasonable time period'' for recall to work by economic strikers could include:

A strike is not entered into lightly by an employee. Which of the following items is least likely to be considered?

A mediator who has separate meetings with management and union officials risks having his neutrality suspected by either side.

If not permanently replaced, an economic striker has a right to be reinstated to his or her job at any time during a labor dispute after making an unconditional request for reinstatement to the employer.

Mediators must work by a predetermined set of rules in order to successfully resolve differences.

Each of the following is listed as a major factor that could cause a strike, except one. Which one is not a major factor?

Work stoppages in the United States since 1982 have been at or near historic low levels in terms of numbers of strikes, employees involved, and days idled.

_____________ arises from the parties' inability to negotiate a labor agreement successfully and refers the unresolved issues to an outside neutral who conducts a hearing to receive evidence and then makes a final and binding decision within the parties' proposals.

Which of the following options (legal actions by employers) is most likely to be used by the NLRB in labor disputes after reaching an impasse over a mandatory issue?

The use of strike replacements (particularly permanent replacements) during an economic strike reduces the tensions between the parties and often shortens the length of a strike.

Which of the following always results in a final and binding decision?

Which of the following are either illegal or in violation of the labor agreement?

During a strike, who has the most effect upon a striker's behavior and attitudes?