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The _________ Act established the National Labor Relations Board.

A) Wagner
B) Taft-Hartley
C) Norris-LaGuardia
D) Fair Labor Standards

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Question 132

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A(n) ___________ occurs when management temporarily closes a business to deny employment to workers.

A) lockout
B) secondary boycott
C) involuntary strike
D) employment injunction

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Question 133

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A key to the future growth of unions will be their ability to adapt to a labor force that is becoming more culturally diverse.

The most potent weapon currently available to management when collective bargaining breaks down is the use of yellow-dog contracts.

The high cost of illegal drug use in the workplace has resulted in a rise in the number of firms that test employees and job applicants for drugs.

Many companies do not provide any formal training for dealing with prevention of violence in the workplace.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the extent to which unions currently rely on strikes as a tactic when collective bargaining breaks down?

The National Labor Relations Act gave labor the legal justification to pursue collective bargaining and other key labor issues.

Anna believes that her manager violated the terms of the negotiated labor-management agreement when he required her to report to work on a holiday.She has discussed her concerns with her shop steward and he agrees with her.It is likely the steward will encourage Anna to:

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),the third leading cause of job-related fatalities is homicide.

Postal workers and other employees of the federal government who provide important services are allowed to form unions,but are denied the right to strike.

In 1997,the Supreme Court rendered a decision on a case stipulating that sexual harassment law:

John belongs to a labor union.He believes a few key people run the union by meeting secretly and making decisions without informing other members or allowing them to fully participate in the meetings.If John's suspicions are correct,the union is violating provisions of the __________ Act.

Closed shops were declared illegal by the:

The law protects both women and men from sexual harassment.

Workers who are hired to do the jobs of striking workers until the strike is over are called "scabs" by the union.

__________ is the process by which a union becomes recognized by the National Labor Relations Board as the bargaining agent for a group of employees.

Critics of labor unions argue that unions are no longer needed to protect workers from abusive and unfair treatment because:

A large number of striking workers are currently picketing at the plant entrance to a Memphis Tire and Rubber plant.Because the pickets have threatened people entering the plant and have vandalized some company property,Memphis' management believes it has just cause to ask the courts for a(n) __________ placing limits on the number of pickets and their actions while picketing.

Comparable worth is concerned with making sure that women get paid as much as men when they do the same jobs.