Exam 12: Dealing With Employee-Management Issues and Relationships

The AFL originally was a federation of craft unions that did not attempt to organize industrial unions.The main reason for this strategy was that:

One goal of the Landrum-Griffin Act was to:

The Norris-LaGuardia Act prohibits firms from requiring workers to agree not to join a union as a condition of their employment.

Striking union workers are picketing near the entrance of the Bellandro Bay Brewery plant where they normally work.The workers are acting peacefully and have not threatened anyone entering or leaving the company or damaged any property.Bellandro's management is seeking an injunction to prevent the workers from picketing.The courts are unlikely to issue an injunction under the current circumstances.

In recent years some unions have granted concessions and given up benefits secured in earlier contract negotiations in an attempt to save jobs.These concessions are called:

The Taft-Hartley Act gave more power to management.

Until passage of the Taft-Hartley Act,under a closed shop agreement,a company could only hire workers who already belonged to a union.

Studies conducted at the University of Michigan found that earnings of women graduating with baccalaureate degrees were:

According to the Reaching Beyond Our Borders box in Chapter 12,global labor movements are forming to emphasize the setting of global labor standards.

Strikes have been an effective way of settling labor disputes without violence and bitterness.

According to the Legal Briefcase,"Paying for Incompetence",businesspersons understand that the capitalist system has no choice but to tolerate huge disparities between a CEO's salary and a regular employee.

Today,over 70% of all companies require some type of drug testing.

In its early years,the AFL's strategy was to:

A union that consists of members who are all skilled specialists in a particular trade is called an industrial guild.

The AFL-CIO was __________ the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

The main objectives of organized labor,better wages and shorter hours,have remained remarkably stable over time.

According to one of the top management consultants of the past 40 years,the late Peter Drucker:

Alcohol is the most widely used drug in the workplace.

A major difference between early labor organizations in the United States and today's labor unions is that the early labor groups often were temporary organizations that disbanded after achieving a short-range goal,while today's unions are permanent organizations.

The __________ was set up as a federation of many separate craft unions.