Exam 12: Working With Labor Unions

Employers must allow freedom of association, organization and cannot interfere with, restrain or coerce employees who form a union. This is one of the aspects of the _____.

The union does not have the power to file a grievance on behalf of an individual worker or the group.

A union shop requires a person to join the union within a certain time period of joining the organization.

Mediators can work on grievance processes but not on collective bargaining issues.

Which of the following organizations was formed as a result of political differences within the American Federation of Labor?

The first step in the grievance process is likely to involve:

Some unions engage in a _____ or an intentional reduction in productivity instead of a strike to pressurize an organization into accepting the proposed contract.

Which of the following is the reason why the Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1947?

Which of the following oversees the Wagner Act, handling any complaints which may arise from it?

Limiting the collective bargaining rights of state workers in order to avert a budget crisis is called union salting.

What is a bargaining impasse?

Describe how the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers came into existence.

Common Cause, a trade union for construction workers, recently took up the case of a worker whose was injured on-site and given no compensation by Hilson Developers. Since incidents like this were frequent, Common Cause began negotiating safer conditions of employment for construction workers with the Federation of Urban Developers. After three rounds of talks, the Federation was still unwilling to increase safety measures. It also refused to increase the compensation for an injured worker and his/her family until the employee was fit to re-join work as it was a nonproductive expenditure. The trade union representatives held onto their stance that since most construction workers were daily wage laborers, they were completely dependent on the developers to provide compensation when they were injured and unable to work. The contract negotiations have now come to a stand still. This is an example of a _____.

Any recommendation made by the _____ in the grievance process is not binding for either of the parties involved.

_____ are used to put pressure on an employer to assign work to members of one union versus another or to put pressure on management to recognize one union representation when it currently recognizes another.

A sick-out is an illegal form of union strikes.

What are the three main classifications of bargaining topics?

A labor union is defined as:

Which of the following is true about the Knights of Labor?

A principle grievance deals with basic contract issues surrounding seniority or pay.