Exam 15: Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining

Rights arbitration centers on working out a labor agreement when one or both of the parties seeks a change in the agreement or when an agreement does not yet exist.

Which of the following terms refers to the group of employees the union will be authorized to represent?

All of the following are examples of mandatory bargaining items EXCEPT ________.

Which of the following guaranteed each employee the right to bargain collectively without interference,restraint,or coercion?

All of the following are examples of permissible bargaining items EXCEPT ________.

The Taft-Hartley Act amended the Wagner Act in all of the following ways EXCEPT by ________.

According to the Landrum-Griffin Act,national and international unions must elect officers at least once every ________ years.

If passed,the Employee Free Choice Act would ________.

The Change to Win Coalition was formed by several large unions that left the AFL-CIO due to concerns that the AFL-CIO was not aggressively organizing workers.

________ is the process of legally terminating a union's right to represent employees.

Union activism and unclear job descriptions are often underlying causes for employee grievances.

Employers and unions can seek a court injunction to compel a party or parties to resume or desist from a certain action.

Which of the following best describes a "yellow dog" contract?

Costco is primarily known as "the anti-Walmart" because the firm ________.

Which of the following was NOT designated an unfair labor practice by the Wagner Act?

Effective organizational competitiveness can be linked to having cooperative relationships.

Which type of union security was outlawed by Congress?

The Taft-Hartley Act prohibits all of the following union labor practices EXCEPT ________.

What are the ways that an employer can lose an NLRB election?

Union authorization cards serve all of the following functions EXCEPT ________.