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HRM Final Exam - Unions and Labor Relations
- agricultural laborers
- independent contractors
- supervisors
- managers - ✔✔The following types of employees cannot be included in bargaining units:
- firing employees or threatening employees with the loss of their jobs or benefits if they join or vote
for a union
- granting wage increases that are timed to discourage employees from forming or joining a union
- spying on union meetings
- threatening to close down a plant if organized by a union
- discharging employees for urging other employees to a join a union
- refusing to reinstate workers when job openings occur because the workers participated in a lawful
strike - ✔✔Unfair Labor Practices (company --> union)
- threats to employees of bodily injury or that they will lose their jobs unless they support the union's
activities
- making a contract that requires an employer to hire only members of the union or employees
satisfactory to the union
%
- picketing an employer to force it to stop doing business with another employer who has refused to
recognize the union (a secondary boycott) - ✔✔Unfair Labor Practices (union --> company)
1) composed of local parts
2) affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) - ✔✔Most national unions are:
1) ensuring the terms of collective bargaining contract are enforced
2) represents the employees in contract grievances - ✔✔the local union steward is responsible for:
1) perceptions of the work environment
2) desires to participate in or influence employment conditions
3) employee beliefs about the effects of unions - ✔✔Three general reasons Why Workers Join
Unions
1) wage related issues (wage rates, COLAs, wage adjustments)
2) supplementary economic benefits (pension plans, paid vacations, health insurance)
3) institutional issues (rights of management, union security)
4) administrative issues (seniority , discharge procedures, work rules, job security). - ✔✔The Typical
provisions or issues in a collective bargaining contract are:
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STUVIA 2024/2025
13%; 10% - ✔✔Union membership in the US has dropped substantially to less than ___% of the
non-farm US workforce and less than ___% among private organizations.
1955; service - ✔✔One reason union membership began to decline in _____ is that the labor
movement has had more difficulty organizing in the _____ sector.
30 - ✔✔If at least ____ percent of employees in the bargaining unit (may be determined by the
NLRB if both sides can not agree) sign authorization cards the union typically petitions the NLRB to
conduct a representation election.
a five-member board, the general counsel, and 33 regional offices; major functions are to conduct
and certify representation elections and prevent unfair labor practices - ✔✔National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB)
An association that seeks to advance the shared interests of its member unions at the national level.
Represents labor's interests in public policy issues and provides information and analysis that
member unions can use in their activities such as organizing, negotiating new contracts and
administering contracts. - ✔✔AFL-CIO
%
anti-union consultants - ✔✔In the last two decades, employers have sought the help of _____ _____
whose advice has sometimes pushed illegal activities - such as planting drugs, lying to the employees
of what the union might do, getting rid of the key union organizers, etc.
arbitration - ✔✔The last step of grievance procedures is _____.
Because discrimination against employers involved in organizing decreases union organizing success
significantly, and the cost of back pay to union activists reinstated in their jobs is far smaller than the
costs that would be incurred if the union managed to organize and gain better wages, benefits, and
working conditions. - ✔✔Why would employers break the law to stop unions from being organized?
can be used by management - ✔✔Lockout
can be used by the union; are more likely in large units; are the exception rather than the rule; the
frequency today is low by historical standards. The power of this to pressure management has been
seriously diminished during the past decades. - ✔✔Strike
capitalism; economic - ✔✔The American Federation of Labor (AFL) accepted _____ and worked to
improve the worker's _____ position
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STUVIA 2024/2025
HRM Final Exam - Unions and Labor Relations
- agricultural laborers
- independent contractors
- supervisors
- managers - ✔✔The following types of employees cannot be included in bargaining units:
- firing employees or threatening employees with the loss of their jobs or benefits if they join or vote
for a union
- granting wage increases that are timed to discourage employees from forming or joining a union
- spying on union meetings
- threatening to close down a plant if organized by a union
- discharging employees for urging other employees to a join a union
- refusing to reinstate workers when job openings occur because the workers participated in a lawful
strike - ✔✔Unfair Labor Practices (company --> union)
- threats to employees of bodily injury or that they will lose their jobs unless they support the union's
activities
- making a contract that requires an employer to hire only members of the union or employees
satisfactory to the union
%
- picketing an employer to force it to stop doing business with another employer who has refused to
recognize the union (a secondary boycott) - ✔✔Unfair Labor Practices (union --> company)
1) composed of local parts
2) affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) - ✔✔Most national unions are:
1) ensuring the terms of collective bargaining contract are enforced
2) represents the employees in contract grievances - ✔✔the local union steward is responsible for:
1) perceptions of the work environment
2) desires to participate in or influence employment conditions
3) employee beliefs about the effects of unions - ✔✔Three general reasons Why Workers Join
Unions
1) wage related issues (wage rates, COLAs, wage adjustments)
2) supplementary economic benefits (pension plans, paid vacations, health insurance)
3) institutional issues (rights of management, union security)
4) administrative issues (seniority , discharge procedures, work rules, job security). - ✔✔The Typical
provisions or issues in a collective bargaining contract are:
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STUVIA 2024/2025
13%; 10% - ✔✔Union membership in the US has dropped substantially to less than ___% of the
non-farm US workforce and less than ___% among private organizations.
1955; service - ✔✔One reason union membership began to decline in _____ is that the labor
movement has had more difficulty organizing in the _____ sector.
30 - ✔✔If at least ____ percent of employees in the bargaining unit (may be determined by the
NLRB if both sides can not agree) sign authorization cards the union typically petitions the NLRB to
conduct a representation election.
a five-member board, the general counsel, and 33 regional offices; major functions are to conduct
and certify representation elections and prevent unfair labor practices - ✔✔National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB)
An association that seeks to advance the shared interests of its member unions at the national level.
Represents labor's interests in public policy issues and provides information and analysis that
member unions can use in their activities such as organizing, negotiating new contracts and
administering contracts. - ✔✔AFL-CIO
%
anti-union consultants - ✔✔In the last two decades, employers have sought the help of _____ _____
whose advice has sometimes pushed illegal activities - such as planting drugs, lying to the employees
of what the union might do, getting rid of the key union organizers, etc.
arbitration - ✔✔The last step of grievance procedures is _____.
Because discrimination against employers involved in organizing decreases union organizing success
significantly, and the cost of back pay to union activists reinstated in their jobs is far smaller than the
costs that would be incurred if the union managed to organize and gain better wages, benefits, and
working conditions. - ✔✔Why would employers break the law to stop unions from being organized?
can be used by management - ✔✔Lockout
can be used by the union; are more likely in large units; are the exception rather than the rule; the
frequency today is low by historical standards. The power of this to pressure management has been
seriously diminished during the past decades. - ✔✔Strike
capitalism; economic - ✔✔The American Federation of Labor (AFL) accepted _____ and worked to
improve the worker's _____ position
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- Unions
Final Exam
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