• 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 nonthreatening 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.
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