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Seeking improved wages and benefits
Greater voice in workplace decision making - answers✔✔Which of the following are reasons
why employees might join a union? (Choose all that apply.)
decreased - answers✔✔Since 1945, union membership in the U.S. has ____.
T - answers✔✔True or false: As employers lost their market power in the 1970s and 1980s,
union wage dominance shrank and fragmented.
-Collective agreements that embody a sharp difference between negotiation of and
interpretation of an agreement-Opposition by both large and small employers to union
organization - answers✔✔Identify the distinctive features of the U.S. industrial relations system.
(Check all that apply.)
Field 1: secondary
Field 2: boycott - answers✔✔A(n) _____ _____ is an unfair labor practice that occurs when a
union appeals to firms or other unions to stop doing business with an employer who sells or
handles a struck product.
, Labor unions - answers✔✔What is the term for a group of workers who join together to
influence the nature of their employment?
50 - answers✔✔If the union secures authorization cards from more than ____ percent of the
employees, it may ask management directly for the right to exclusive representation
1 - answers✔✔____ out of every ten employees is/are represented by a union today.
It is more difficult for the union to win - answers✔✔What happens as a bargaining unit gets
bigger?
Pattern Bargaining - answers✔✔Traditionally, the power of unions to set industrywide wage
levels through so-called across employers was based on the market power of strong domestic
producers or industries sheltered by regulation.
Ensuring workers are treated fairly
Improving working conditions - answers✔✔Which of the following do unions tend to emphasize
during organizing campaigns? (Choose all that apply.)
Field 1: Exclusive
Field 2: representation - answers✔✔_____ _____ refers to only one union in a given job
territory, selected by majority vote; it is a distinctive feature of the U.S. industrial relations
system.
Field 1: exclusive
Field 2: bargaining
Field 3: representative - answers✔✔In the context of a representation election, if a union
receives a majority of the ballots cast (not a majority of votes from members of the bargaining