True False 10 Points Labor Relations

• The role of a union is to fulfill the employers’ perceived needs and answer job-related concerns
• True
• False

10 points

QUESTION 2

• In order to create the movement toward unionization, the union creates great dissatisfaction with working conditions among employees.

• True
• False

10 points

QUESTION 3

• The employer realizes that the keys to its success in remaining nonunion are to practice job enrichment/ enlargement, internal promotions, learning opportunities, bonus and merit pay, and employee empowerment.
• True

• False

10 points

QUESTION 4

• Two strategies unions have recently been using to help facilitate organization have instituting cyberspace organizing with the Internet and hiring “union salts” in targeted companies.

• True
• False

10 points

QUESTION 5

• Union decertification procedures are more likely to be implemented when striking employees having skill are difficult to replace.
• True

• False

QUESTION 6

• The Gissel Case prompted the National Labor Relations Board to conclude, and the Supreme Court to agree, that a company may be ordered to recognize and bargain with a union under certain conditions.

• True
• False

10 points

QUESTION 7

• A group of employees might be motivated to decertify a union because they:

		Feel deprived of fair wages or respect.
		Feel alienated from their work due to the extensive use of machinery.
		Fear job loss and desire job security.
		Union is doing a poor job.

10 points

QUESTION 8

• An NLRB union pre-election campaign usually goes through several phases, which include:

		Contacting employees, determining interest, setting up an organizing committee, and building more interest.
		Planting ‘union salts’, contacting employers, determining interest, and assembling a list of potential members.
		Setting up an organizing committee, launching a public relations campaign, and building interest.
		Determining union dues, planting “union salts”, and building interest.

10 points

QUESTION 9

• An employee cannot vote in a representational election if he/she is:

		Employed on the date of the election.
		Employed in a bargaining unit job.
		Employed during the eligibility period, which is usually the payroll period immediately preceding the date a consent agreement is signed or a directed election order is issued.
		Replaced more than 12 months after a strike begins.

10 points

QUESTION 10

• After unions win bargaining rights in a representation election, they attempt to negotiate a labor agreement; however, they fail to secure a first contract ________ of the time.

		5 to 10 percent
		15 to 25 percent
		25 to 30 percent
		40 to 50 percent

10 points

QUESTION 11

• Employers can legally discourage union support by:

		Empowering employees.
		Scaring employees about their interest in unions in a non-threatening manner.
		Promoting the distribution of union literature in work areas.
		Presenting “captive audience” speeches to employees during working hours.

10 points

QUESTION 12

• A union organizer who applies for a job within a targeted company, goes to work, and solicits for union membership as an employee is called a:

		Seeded organizer.
		Union salts.
		Union inciter.
		Union incubator.