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1. True or False: Organized labor repeated its success in three previous presidential elections by delivering a very large majority of union members for Obama.

2. True or False: The sit-down strike helped the CIO to obtain union membership in the 1930s, and it was soon approved by the Supreme Court.

3. True or False: The merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955 has minimized raiding between the two organizations, but has not resulted in major strategic or philosophical shift in organized labor.

4. True or False: Employers actively opposed unions after World War I by implementing the European Plan.

5. True or False: In Norma Rae, one of the primary reasons for organizing a labor union was to obtain an increase in wages.

6. True or False: Statutory law includes legislation originally written for general population but is applied in specific instances to labor relations.

7. True or False: The administrative agency under the Norris-LaGuardia Act is the National Labor Relations Board

8. True or False: The Wagner Act gave unions considerable power, which had to be counterbalanced by passage of the Taft-Hartley Act.

9. True or False: Craft unions have less independence from their national union headquarters than industrial unions

10. True or False: The practice of double-breasting is legal under the National Labor Relations Act.

11. True or False: Most union presidents have restricted authority to appoint their staff, regulate locals, and direct the activities of the national union

12. True or False: Because construction takes place throughout the nation, craft unions have decided to expand the scope of their labor agreements to national coverage.

13. True or False: The processes in democratic unions, such as officer elections, make the union leaders less responsive to the membership

14. True or False: In larger companies, at the operations or plant level, the plant manager and plant labor relations manager play the key roles in certain labor relations activities, such as contract administration, grievance handling, and monitoring labor relations activities.

15. True or False: Signed authorization cards are accurate predictors of the number of votes for the union in elections

16. True or False: The "captive audience" rule states that an employer who presents a "captive audience" speech must allow the union the opportunity to conduct its own "captive audience" speech.

17. True or False: Employer questioning of an employee to discern union sentiment is an automatic violation of NLRA section 8 (a) (1)

18. True or False: The union must obtain signed authorization cards from a majority of the bargaining unit employees before the NLRB will hold an election.