MGT 420 exam 3 questions with
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STEPS THAT LEAD TO FORMING A BARGAINING UNIT - correct answer ✔✔The bargaining unit is
a group of employees, not necessarily union members, recognized by an employer or certified
by an administrative agency as appropriate for representation by a labor organization for
purposes of collective bargaining.
SIGNING AUTHORIZATION CARDS - correct answer ✔✔· Document indicating that an employee
wants to be represented by a labor organization in collective bargaining.
PETITION FOR ELECTION - correct answer ✔✔· After the authorization cards have been signed, a
petition for an election may be made to the appropriate regional office of the NLRB.
ELECTION CAMPAIGN - correct answer ✔✔· When an election has been ordered, both the union
and management usually promote their causes actively.
ELECTION AND CERTIFICATION - correct answer ✔✔· After a valid election is held, the NLRB
board will issue a certification of the results to the participants.
Collective Bargaining - correct answer ✔✔Once the NLRB certifies the union, efforts can begin
to negotiate a contract. The collective bargaining process is fundamental to union and
management relations in the United States. Most union/management agreements in the United
States are for a three-year period.
Labor unions - correct answer ✔✔Organizations that exist to represent the interests of
employees in the workplace and to ensure fair treatment when conflicts arise between one or
more employees and management.
, Collective bargaining - correct answer ✔✔The process in which labor union leadership enters
into good faith negotiations with management representatives over terms of employment such
as work hours, pay, and job security.
Collective bargaining agreement - correct answer ✔✔Written documents that describe the
terms of employment reached between management and unions.
Local union - correct answer ✔✔Basic element in the structure of the U.S. labor movement.
Industrial union - correct answer ✔✔Bargaining unit that generally consists of all the workers in
a particular plant or group of plants.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) - correct
answer ✔✔Central trade union federation in the United States.
Right-to-work laws - correct answer ✔✔Laws that prohibit management and unions from
entering into agreements requiring union membership as a condition of employment.
Committee on Political Education (COPE) - correct answer ✔✔Political arm of the AFL-CIO.
Union salting - correct answer ✔✔Process of training union organizers to apply for jobs at a
company and, once hired, working to unionize employees.
Flooding the community - correct answer ✔✔Process of the union inundating communities
with organizers to target a particular business.
Card check - correct answer ✔✔Organizing approach by labor in which employees sign a non-
secret card of support if they want unionization, and if 50 percent of the workforce plus one
worker sign a card, the union is formed.
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STEPS THAT LEAD TO FORMING A BARGAINING UNIT - correct answer ✔✔The bargaining unit is
a group of employees, not necessarily union members, recognized by an employer or certified
by an administrative agency as appropriate for representation by a labor organization for
purposes of collective bargaining.
SIGNING AUTHORIZATION CARDS - correct answer ✔✔· Document indicating that an employee
wants to be represented by a labor organization in collective bargaining.
PETITION FOR ELECTION - correct answer ✔✔· After the authorization cards have been signed, a
petition for an election may be made to the appropriate regional office of the NLRB.
ELECTION CAMPAIGN - correct answer ✔✔· When an election has been ordered, both the union
and management usually promote their causes actively.
ELECTION AND CERTIFICATION - correct answer ✔✔· After a valid election is held, the NLRB
board will issue a certification of the results to the participants.
Collective Bargaining - correct answer ✔✔Once the NLRB certifies the union, efforts can begin
to negotiate a contract. The collective bargaining process is fundamental to union and
management relations in the United States. Most union/management agreements in the United
States are for a three-year period.
Labor unions - correct answer ✔✔Organizations that exist to represent the interests of
employees in the workplace and to ensure fair treatment when conflicts arise between one or
more employees and management.
, Collective bargaining - correct answer ✔✔The process in which labor union leadership enters
into good faith negotiations with management representatives over terms of employment such
as work hours, pay, and job security.
Collective bargaining agreement - correct answer ✔✔Written documents that describe the
terms of employment reached between management and unions.
Local union - correct answer ✔✔Basic element in the structure of the U.S. labor movement.
Industrial union - correct answer ✔✔Bargaining unit that generally consists of all the workers in
a particular plant or group of plants.
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) - correct
answer ✔✔Central trade union federation in the United States.
Right-to-work laws - correct answer ✔✔Laws that prohibit management and unions from
entering into agreements requiring union membership as a condition of employment.
Committee on Political Education (COPE) - correct answer ✔✔Political arm of the AFL-CIO.
Union salting - correct answer ✔✔Process of training union organizers to apply for jobs at a
company and, once hired, working to unionize employees.
Flooding the community - correct answer ✔✔Process of the union inundating communities
with organizers to target a particular business.
Card check - correct answer ✔✔Organizing approach by labor in which employees sign a non-
secret card of support if they want unionization, and if 50 percent of the workforce plus one
worker sign a card, the union is formed.
