Reference no: EM132196308

1. What legislation created a national minimum wage, mandatory overtime premium for qualified workers, and restrictions on child labor?

a. Employee Free Choice Act

b. Equal Pay Act

c. Employee Retirement Income Security Act

d. Civil Rights Act

e. Fair Labor Standards Act

2. If employees do not like their current union and would like a different union to represent them, can they make this change?

a. Yes, the Taft-Hartley Act gives employees the right to have any union they want to represent them.

b. Yes, and they have the option of being represented by two unions concurrently (at the same time).

c. No, no federal law gives employees a right to change unions.

d. Yes, but not in the middle of a existing contract (they must wait).

e. Yes, if a majority of employees want to change unions, they may do so as soon at any time.

3. Detailed systems of narrow job classifications and precise job descriptions are most likely to threaten:

a. Procedural flexibility

b. Employment flexibility

c. Functional flexibility

d. Pay flexibility

4. The Industrial Workers of the World was born in part out of frustration over the:

a. CIO's emphasis on industrial unionism at the expense of crafts and tradespeople.

b. tendency for unions to focus exclusively on unskilled workers.

c. NLU's inability to organize a national federation of labor unions that could support each other in times of struggle.

d. AFL's willingness to settle for small, day to day gains, in light of the oppressive work practices of the ownership class.

e. KOL's failure to recognize the day-to-day struggles of the working class.