The Explosive Confrontations Between Management and Workers Attempting to Organize

The explosive confrontations between management and workers attempting to organize themselves to offset the power of the employer led most governments to pass laws that would create and maintain labour peace. Which of the following is false with regard to collective bargaining legislation?

A) It is an unfair labour practice for an employer to threaten to fire a worker for joining the union.
B) A lockout is an action taken by the employer to prevent workers from working and earning a wage.
C) Once a union is certified, the union worker will not bargain for his contract; the union will have a bargaining agent who has the authority to negotiate for a contract that will bind all the union workers in that bargaining unit.
D) A contract approved by both the employer and the union is called a collective agreement, and it must set out the method for the settlement of disputes that might arise under the agreement.
E) Employers can block their workers from organizing themselves as a union as long as they do not use violence or the threat of violence.

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