Exam 22: Labor-Management Relationship

Yellow dog contracts were made illegal through the enactment of the:

ACE at its Maspeth, New York facility consolidates, containerizes and forwards cargoes for sea shipment and removes incoming cargoes from containers. KAS, with offices in New York City, is an incorporated association of employers engaged in various operations involved in the shipment of cargo, freight and transportation of passengers in and out of the Port of New York. The Union is a labor organization. ACE contends that this loading and unloading had been performed by the Union members. Now instead of the Union the Trucking Co. performed the work of filling the containers with respect to outgoing cargoes and the unloading of incoming containers on ACE's Maspeth premises. ACE contends Union has been successful in getting KAS, including its employer-members to cease furnishing containers to ACE and to stop handling freight for ACE. What is this kind of activity by the Union referred to as? Is it legal?

Petitions are used to authorize the NLRB to conduct an election to certify a union or to rescind a union's authority.

Which of the following statements holds true for unions?

Administrative law judges are responsible for the initial conduct of hearings in unfair labor practice cases.

For the NLRB to conduct a union election, it must receive:

The Clayton Act of 1914 was passed principally to:

ColdBev is a California corporation engaged in the production, bottling, and distribution of beverages. In March 1949 it entered into a collective bargaining agreement concerning the wages, hours, and working conditions of its nonsupervisory employees with the United Employees' Association. Beginning in June 1949 the union engaged in activities designed to compel the company to recognize the union as the exclusive bargaining representatives of the company's employees. To enforce their demand for recognition, the union began peaceful picketing of retail stores which sold the plaintiff's products. Picket signs announced that the company's products were made by workers who were not members of the United Employees' Association. What are the activities indulged in by the United Employees' Association termed as? Are the activities legal?

A partial business closing to deter unionizing is an unfair labor practice.

One reason for the relative strength enjoyed by management was the fact that it argued that employees acting together were restraining trade illegally under the _____.

An employer may voluntarily recognize that its workers want to have a certain labor union represent them.

Drake worked for New Health, Inc, which placed him within a collective bargaining unit represented by a union. He was told that if he did not join the union and pay dues, he would be fired. Drake filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union and his employer with the NLRB. His employer dismissed the complaint on the grounds it is the official policy of the company. Is the company correct in making membership of an union mandatory for employment?

The Norris-LaGuardia Act:

Which of the following actions by an employer violates the Wagner Act?

An employer may legally permit a union to use their telephones and copy machines as long as they do not charge the union a fee.

_____ are those issues concerned with wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.

Picketing to force an employer to recognize an uncertified union is an unfair labor practice when:

Carpenters Brotherhood is a registered union with Fidelity Interior Construction. Fidelity Interior Construction started using non-union workers unable to fulfill the constant and unreasonable demands of the union. In retaliation the union launched a campaign to prevent the hiring of nonunion workers. It sent out "warning letters" to building owners, property managers and general contractors indicating it would retaliate against anyone doing business with Fidelity Interior Construction. If they didn't comply, the union emphasized that the business would be subject to picketing, noisemaking, chanting and other forms of worksite pressure. What is this kind of activity termed as? Are they legal?

Why is the Clayton Act so important to the labor movement?

If an employer reports the existence of possible illegal aliens to the authorities when the report is near a time when the employees are approving a labor union as its bargaining agent such a report is considered an unfair labor practice.