Exam 4: Establishing a Bargaining Unit and the

A craft unit is a bargaining unit composed exclusively of workers with a specific and recognized skill, such as electricians or plumbers.

Which of the following statements is true regarding an appropriate bargaining unit?

Supervisors enjoy the collective bargaining rights granted under the National Labor Relations Act.

A union must present evidence of employee support before a representation election is held.

The underlying principle for the NLRB's determination of an appropriate unit is that only employees who have ________ can be appropriately grouped in that unit.

At the time of an election, an employer can ________ without violating the NRLA.

If a union loses a deauthorization election, the union still represents the employees in the bargaining unit and the rest of the collective bargaining agreement remains intact, but employees are not required to join the union.

Which of the following is true of decertification petitions?

The considerations used to determine the appropriateness of a bargaining unit are not legally binding formulas but an exercise in rational examination of the facts of an individual case.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of the operation of a construction industry unit?

In 2005, seven national unions split from the Change to Win Coalition to form the AFL-CIO.

The NLRB considers the extent of unionization by a bargaining unit to be the controlling factor in unit determination.

During a union organizing campaign, which of the following requirements must be fulfilled to qualify for an NLRB-sponsored election?

Which of the following terms refers to a program during which union members are encouraged by their union to seek employment at a nonunion company and once hired, they promote unionization in the nonunion company?

Similar wages, hours, working rules, and conditions of employment can define a community of interest in the public sector.

According to the ________ doctrine, the use of authorization cards is allowed as a substitute for a certification election when an employer's actions amount for unfair labor practices and when the results of an election may be unreliable.

Employees have no statutory right to use an employer's bulletin board, meeting halls, or mailboxes.

Typically, employees are allowed to distribute union literature ________.

A construction industry unit is required to show that it represents a majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit before it bargains with the employer.

The ________ is authorized to decide on a case-by-case basis the "appropriate bargaining unit" of employees for collective bargaining purposes.