Exam 3: Legal Influences

A petition for certiorari is a request to review a court of appeals decision by the:

The administrative agencies now under the Railway Labor Act are the:

An employee alleging unlawful discharge is NOT under affirmative duty to seek comparable employment to mitigate the respondent employer's potential back-pay liability while awaiting a final determination of the merit of the ULP charge.

To ensure the constitutionality of the NLRA,Congress provided that unfair labor practice decisions of the NLRB could be appealed for review by:

For employee activity to be protected under the LMRA,the concerted activity must be for a protected purpose described in Section 7 of the Act and engaged in using lawful means.

The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin Act)was designed to protect the rights of individual union members in their relations with their own union.

The one primary responsibility of the NLRB is to determine if employees desire representation by an independent labor organization for purposes of collective bargaining.

The NLRB decisions are similar to Supreme Court decisions in that they are independent of political party influences.

After recognizing the important impact labor relations can have on interstate commerce,the Supreme Court declared t National Labor Relations Act during what year:

A major responsibility of the __________ is to conduct a preliminary investigation of each ULP charge to determine if sufficient (prima facie)evidence exists to conclude a ULP may have occurred.

The Wagner Act gave unions considerable power,which had to be counterbalanced by passage of the Taft-Hartley Act.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 establishes minimum standards for the operation of voluntarily established private-sector pension and health plans.

The following is NOT a step in the Unfair Labor Practice Procedure:

Under the Railway Labor Act,the federal agency responsible for resolving differences between the parties when negotiating an agreement is the:

Employees are protected in pursuing their mutual working condition concerns,even if they do not belong to a labor organization.

Some union actions that have been determined to be illegal under the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA)include the following except:

The Supreme Court ruled in the late 1930s that labor disputes were covered under the Norris-LaGuardia Act and injunctions could easily be obtained.

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA)clarifies and extends the Veterans' Reemployment Rights Act of 1940 to protect the job rights of individuals called on to perform military duty on behalf of the United States.

The National Labor Relations Board's regional director and staff work with the General Counsel to investigate ULP charges.

The ________ applies to labor relations in the airline industry.