Exam 12: Comparative Labor Relations

In Mexico,workers' rights,such as the right to strike are provided by:

The ACFTU's traditional responsibilities focus on maintaining labor discipline to promote the national agenda and not to represent workers' interests in negotiations with employers.

The Stalinist model of unionism resulted in:

In 1980 Lech Walesa led 17,000 Polish workers to conduct a sit-down strike to demand the right to form free labor unions independent of the Communist Party.This has become known as the ____________________________ movement.

Which of the following countries has the lowest union density rate:

While globalization,decentralization and the need for greater flexibility are important pressures in U.S.industrial relations,they are relatively unimportant issues for most other industrialized countries.

Under French labor laws,collective bargaining takes place solely at the company level.

The U.S.labor relations concepts of exclusive representation and majority support for union representation are concepts that have been adopted by many other countries outside the U.S.

Across the world,labor relations systems are converging to a common set of policies and practices.

A German _______________________________ is a workplace-level committee of employees granted codetermination,consultation and information rights and elected to represent all workers in dealings with management.

The U.S.emphasis on exclusive representation and majority support is often imitated outside of North America.

Employee representation on _________________________________ is an important aspect of codetermination.

(p.447 Enterprise -level consultation and bargaining are complemented by an annual wage negotiation process called _______________________________.

Although the social partnership and peak-level negotiations in Ireland address a variety of issues,the result is greater instability and unpredictability for the economy as a whole,as well as the workplace.

Although more of a social movement in the past,Canadian unions are moving toward the American business unionism model.

As their power has declined with the legal reforms of the Conservative government,British unions are starting to look more toward the European Union as a way to improve labor standards and public policy favoring workers and their representatives.

Since the 1980s,Australian labor relations has become more centralized,focused more on national labor policy than on individual company-level bargaining.

Collective bargaining agreements in Mexico automatically include the minimum provisions that are set in the Mexican constitution.

Which of the following is not a benefit associated with some form of social partnership in labor relations:

In a Stalinist system,unions served all of the following purposes except to: