Exam 12: Dealing With Employee-Management Issues and Relationships

The leadership of _____________ was instrumental in bringing about the merger between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.

_____________ is the process by which representatives of a union meet with representatives of management to negotiate a contract for workers.

A comparison of compensation of CEOs in the U.S.with compensation of top executives in Canada and Europe indicates that:

In recent years,many unions have begun to:

Despite a 1938 Supreme Court ruling allowing their use,___________ were seldom used by management during labor-management disputes until the 1980s.

The first national labor organization,the Knights of Labor sought to gain enough political power to restructure the entire U.S.economy.

Abraham was an unskilled worker who toiled 10 hours a day on an assembly line during the early and mid 1930s.His hours were long,his wages were low and his working conditions were unsafe and unpleasant.Abraham would probably be more sympathetic to the views of John L.Lewis than to those of Samuel Gompers.

Last week,Angie was approached by two of her coworkers during the lunch break pressuring her to sign a card check in favor of organizing a union.The card check is currently a NLRB (National Labor Relations Board)approved method of finalizing unionization.

Many of the negotiated labor-management agreements in the United States call for the use of an arbitrator to end labor disputes.

The subject "Who pays for child care when the parent(s)works?" is

Although workers and managers often know that their firm has a policy against sexual harassment,they seldom have a clear understanding of what the policy actually says.

In an agency shop agreement,workers who do not belong to the union must pay a union fee or pay regular union dues.

The AFL-CIO was a major supporter of the NAFTA agreement to expand trade and commerce among the nations of the United States,Canada,and Mexico.

Identify and describe the major tactics used by unions and management when collective bargaining efforts break down.

The AFL was concerned primarily with:

During the 1970s,the primary objective of most labor unions was to gain additional pay and benefits for their members.

Although child-care concerns have become a pressing issue for many employees,most firms have been unable to find acceptable solutions to these concerns.

The presence of formal labor organizations in the United States dates back to the:

Which of the following tactics would management be most likely to use during a labor-management dispute?

Under the Wagner Act,the National Labor Relations Board can establish a labor union in an organization if it finds evidence of substantial labor abuse within that organization.