Exam 12: Working With Labor Unions

Which of the following labor union laws was amended in 1936 to cover the aviation industry?

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

Debby was the only one in her team who was not informed about some major changes made in the management. Apart from that, she is observing subtle occurrences of negative bias. If she chooses to present her complaint before the authorities, which of the following grievances will her complaint get categorized under?

_____ is the process of negotiations between the company and representatives of the union.

Which of the following acts passed in 1959 required unions to hold secret elections, submit annual financial reports, and develop standards for the expulsion of a member of the union?

Of the following steps of a grievance process, which one should be taken when no resolution develops despite having brought in a mediator?

A closed shop mechanism made union membership an optional requirement for a job applicant.

Which of the following industry-specific local unions falls under the Change to Win Federation?

The _____ was passed as a result of the common yellow-dog contracts, where a worker agreed not to join a union before accepting a job.

_____ 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.

What is union salting?

Wages are an example of a(n) _____ bargaining topic.

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 _____.

What is collective bargaining?

10,000 workers of a garment factory reduced their productivity by half to protest against the recent failure of contract negotiations on better working conditions. This is an example of a _____.

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 _____.

_____ is a union strategy which encourages union supporters to apply for jobs in nonunion environments to actively work to unionize other employees when they are hired.

Factory workers who are on a _____ to protest are using legal ways to do so since they are using allotted time.

In the 1930s, the Knights of Labor was formed as a result of political differences in the American Federation of Labor.

Define a labor union. Why do people form labor unions?