Exam 6: Negotiating the Labor Agreement

The hard bargaining approach developed by a vice president at GE meant to circumvent the union was found to be a violation of good faith bargaining primarily because it attempted to bypass the employees' exclusive bargaining agent was called:

Management would probably prefer centralized bargaining if it had three separate manufacturing facilities (bargaining units),each making the same product.

Which one of the following should not be a relevant consideration when selecting members for a management negotiating team?

The yearly cost of a one-cent-per-hour wage increase at a facility of 1,000 employees is:

The result of the calculation of any contract item that can be obtained by dividing the annual total cost of the item by the number of bargaining unit hours worked during the year is called the:

Under the bargaining power model,when is the union's bargaining power increased?

The strategy which involves a negotiating team attempting to extract large,similar concessions from multiple opponents is called:

Gains made by a party using the distributive bargaining approach come at the expense of the other party.

In some cases a specific,single action by an employer constitutes an unfair labor practice in bargaining,called a per se violation.

A dispute between union and management representatives over what the terms and conditions of employment will be is termed an interest dispute.

The area of overlap between the union's and management's bargaining ranges is called the:

The minimum concession acceptable by a party in a negotiation is called the:

The proportion of an employer's total operating costs comprised of labor costs is termed the degree of labor intensiveness.

When a distributive bargaining approach is used to negotiate labor contract terms,the same party always wins (gains more)on every bargaining issue.

Which of the following does NOT pertain to new employer bargaining obligations?

When would management officials probably prefer centralized (multi-plant)bargaining?

Where there is substantial continuity in a unionized firm's operation after transfer of ownership occurs,the purchaser of the business would be classified as a new employer for the purpose of determining the employer's legal duty to bargain.

"Mandatory" bargaining subjects:

Which one of the following would not be a characteristic of a distributive bargaining approach? Win-lose negotiations results.

"Voluntary" (also called permissive or non-mandatory)issues involve proposals which violate the law,and there is no legal duty to bargain over such an issue.