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1. To increase flexibility, employers have substantially reduced the number of:
A. Job classifications.
B. Technologies used.
C. Union Elections
D. Vertical staff meetings.
2. Courts have increasingly narrowed nonunion employers’ rights to _____, particularly where employers are judged to have acted in bad faith.
A. Increase employee wages
B. Address problems through their human resource department
C. Hire at will
D. Terminate at will
3. Relatively speaking, in _____ industries, unionized worker quality is lower than that of their nonunion counterparts.
A. Manufacturing
B. Medical
C. Agricultural
D. Service
4. Explain decertifications, their implications, and their influence.
5. Employers are likely to be able to pass on the cost of a wage increase if they are in a noncompetitive product market.
True
False
6. Marginal revenue product is the value of the output produced by the existing workforce.
True
False
7. Permissive bargaining has no direct impact on management or labor costs.
True
False
8. Pattern bargaining has occurred frequently in companies in highly unionized competitive industries.
True
False
9. What is pattern bargaining?
A. Union targets one dominant employer in a highly concentrated industry.
B. Union bargains with many small employers from a particular geographic area.
C. Union bargains with a large employer that has many competitors.
D. Union bargains with a small employer who has many competitors.
10. What does section 8(d) of the Taft-Hartley Act explain about collective bargaining?
A. To bargain collectively is the performance of the mutual obligation of the employer and representative of the employees.
B. Employer and union are prohibited from bargaining collectively on any topic except wages and hours.
C. No party can request for a written contract incorporating agreement reached.
D. Each party is obligated to reach an agreement or make a concession.
11. Which of the following are classified as mandatory bargaining issues?
A. Issues that have no direct impact on management
B. Internal affairs of the union
C. Issues that have a direct effect on union members’ jobs
D. Issues that are statutorily outlawed
12. In which of the following scenarios will the employer be less able to take a strike?
A. If employers implement just-in-time inventory systems
B. If the firm is capital intensive
C. If the employer has several plants producing the same product
D. If the jobs’ skill level is low
13. Why does a conglomerate have higher ability to take on a long strike at any subsidiary?
A. A few parts of its business are large relative to others. .
B. Its parts do not depend on each other for components or processes.
C. It has low bargaining power.
D. It deals with a single union and has contracts with the same expiration.
14. Which of the following is true about bargaining units?
A. Where local unions service several bargaining units, local officers are very concerned about the content of individual contracts.
B. At its most elemental level, a bargaining unit is what labor and management say it is.
C. After the representation stage, the parties are free to make the bargaining unit less (but not more) inclusive in negotiations.
D. The expansion of a bargaining unit results only if management forces the union to do so.
15. How do unions demonstrate their effectiveness?