Exam 22: Labor-Management Relationship

The NLRB does not exercise jurisdiction over private universities and colleges.

Which of the following statements holds true for bargaining between an employer and the union concerning a mandatory subject of bargaining?

An employer's conferring additional benefits on employees considering union organization can be considered an unfair labor practice.

Issues and questions regarding fringe benefits are considered compulsory bargaining issues.

Workers in right-to-work states, who work at a unionized facility, must pay union dues.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was created to achieve the goals of the _____.

Lois has applied for a job at Nadia Markets, a grocery store chain. She is told that after thirty days she is required to join the union representing the Nadia employees. Nadia is:

United Workers called a strike at the Manfield Coal Company in Benwood, West Virginia. The impoverished mine workers quickly caved and asked to be rehired. The mine owners agreed but only on one condition. The workers had to surrender their union charter and agree to a company union. The management made it a condition of employment that employees agree not to join a labor union. What is the kind of the contract that the mine workers have entered into?

Which of the following statements holds true for suits against unions?

Which of the following is a provision of the Taft-Hartley Act?

Which of the following is a major provision of the Landrum-Griffin Act?

Laws that prohibit agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of continued employment is known as a _____ law.

The dispute in a jurisdictional strike is between:

A particular hospital placed a restriction on the use of e-mail by its employees. Employees regularly use the hospital computer system to communicate with each other on union matters. The hospital had never warned the union that its messages were being blocked which included one message which had urged unit member not volunteer for certain assignments. Is the blocking of the e-mail an example of an unfair labor practice?

Name the issues that are classified as compulsory bargaining issues in union negotiations?

How was the National Mediation Board established and what are its primary functions?

Mention the personnel who are exempt from the NLRB'S authority?

Which of the following holds true for elections to certify unions?

The Landrum-Griffin Act prohibits:

Requiring job applicants to state on a job questionnaire that they would or would not cross a picket line is illegal.