Exam 12: Dealing With Employee-Management Issues and Relationships

Speculating on the future of organized labor unions,which of the following statements best summarizes real concerns?

Rose is a human resources manager for a rapidly growing corporation.The firm recently hired one hundred new workers,ten of whom were involved in workplace accidents soon after they were hired.It was determined that alcohol usage was the cause of these accidents.Top management has asked Rose to do a better job in screening potential workers for alcohol abuse to avoid this in the future.Rose should point out that in fact the ten percent of the recent-hires with alcohol issues is actually much lower than the overall percentage of employees with alcohol issues that are involved in industrial injuries and fatalities in the U.S.

Even in their infancy,the main goal of most labor unions was to provide members with increased management power.

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.

Membership in industrial unions was strictly limited to skilled craftspeople.

In a(n)__________ shop,workers do not have to belong to a union before they are hired,but they must join a union within a specified period (usually 30,60,or 90 days)in order to keep their job.

The main goal of the Knights of Labor was to:

____________ refers to unwelcome sexual advances,requests for sexual favors,and other unsolicited conduct of a sexual nature.

A craft union is an organization of skilled specialists in a particular craft or trade.

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.

One goal of the Landrum-Griffin Act was to:

During the first decade of the 21^st century,the AFL-CIO saw its membership significantly decline when ___________________________________.

As reported in the New York Times in November,2008,Ron Gettelfinger,President of the U.A.W.(United Auto Workers Union)testified with auto executives in front of the U.S.Congress,saying,"The U.A.W.can't be the low-hanging fruit…While we're at the table,we're asking that others come in and sacrifice as well." Mr.Gettelfinger was referring to the several ___________ that the autoworkers' union had agreed to over the past few years in order to save jobs and particularly keep retirement benefits intact.

A boycott occurs when workers collectively refuse to go to work.

The spread of AIDS within the U.S.has declined in recent years.

The justification for dues or fees paid by nonunion members to the union in a(n)_________ shop is that the union represents all workers in collective bargaining,not just those who belong to the union.

The Food Source Grocery chain stocks the products of Vegi-Delite Food Company at all of their supermarkets.The Teamsters Union is currently involved in a labor dispute with Vegi-Delite.The union has already encouraged its members and the general public not to buy Vegi-Delite products.Now it is threatening Food Source with the possibility of a boycott if it continues to carry the Vegi-Delite line.The union is threatening Food Source with a(n):

Antonio received specific training to become an electrician.He belongs to a union with other skilled electricians.Antonio belongs to a(n):

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.

A union security clause in a labor-management agreement stipulates that employees who benefit from a union must either officially join or at least pay dues to the union.