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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- True
- False
10 points
QUESTION 5
- Union decertification procedures are more likely to be implemented when striking employees having skill are difficult to replace.
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- 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.
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- True
- False
10 points
QUESTION 7
- A group of employees might be motivated to decertify a union because they:
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| Feel deprived of fair wages or respect. |
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| Feel alienated from their work due to the extensive use of machinery. |
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| Fear job loss and desire job security. |
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| Union is doing a poor job. |
10 points
QUESTION 8
- An NLRB union pre-election campaign usually goes through several phases, which include:
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| Contacting employees, determining interest, setting up an organizing committee, and building more interest. |
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| Planting ‘union salts’, contacting employers, determining interest, and assembling a list of potential members. |
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| Setting up an organizing committee, launching a public relations campaign, and building interest. |
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| 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:
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| Employed on the date of the election. |
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| Employed in a bargaining unit job. |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 5 to 10 percent |
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| 15 to 25 percent |
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| 25 to 30 percent |
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| 40 to 50 percent |
10 points
QUESTION 11
- Employers can legally discourage union support by:
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| Empowering employees. |
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| Scaring employees about their interest in unions in a non-threatening manner. |
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| Promoting the distribution of union literature in work areas. |
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| 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:
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| Seeded organizer. |
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| Union salts. |
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| Union inciter. |
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| Union incubator. |
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