Exam 15: Collective Bargaining

The subjects that vitally affect the terms and conditions of the employment of the employees in the bargaining unit are called _____ bargaining subjects.

If the employer pleads inability to pay, the union:

Section 8(a)(5) requires that the employer bargain with a union that is the representative of its employees according to _____.

In Auciello Iron Works, Inc.v.NLRB, the union filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB.An administrative law judge found that a contract existed between the parties and that Auciello's withdrawal from it violated _____ of the NLRA.

Briefly describe the duty to bargain.

Briefly describe permissive bargaining subjects.

Explain the concept of duty to furnish information.

Which of the following statements is not true of the NLRA's approach to the duty to bargain?​

According to Section 8(d), failure to _____, may make any strike by the union or lockout by the employer an unfair labor practice.

_____ makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to refuse to bargain with the employees' representative.

Section 8(b)(3) allows a union representing a group of employees to refuse to bargain with their employer.

​In H.K.Porter Co.v.NLRB, the dispute mainly revolves around the union's desire to have the company agree to "check off" the dues owed to the union by its members, that is, to deduct those dues periodically from the company's wage payments to the employees.The evidence shows, and the court found, that the company's objection was not because of inconvenience, but solely on the ground that the company was:

Section 8(d) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) states that, the obligation of the employer and the bargaining representative is to meet at and confer in good faith with respect to:

The collective agreements covering professional baseball and football players are examples of agreements that:

The NLRA provides that when the collective bargaining involves the employees of a health-care institution, the parties must give notice to bargain at least ninety days prior to the expiration of the agreement.

​The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN) requires employers with 100 or more employees to give sixty days' advance notice prior to:

An employer's insistence that the union agree to the interest arbitration clause as a condition of the employer signing the collective bargaining agreement amounts to a violation of Section 8(d).

To determine whether the union has the majority support for the first twelve months of the strike, the NLRB held that economic strikers must be considered as members of:

What are prohibited bargaining subjects?​

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) permits the creation of a separate enforcement agency and gives enforcement authority to the Department of Labor.