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1
According to the three tiered model of industrial relations, the workplace level within the New Deal industrial relations system gave
A)employers more control in the absence of labor contracts.
B)unions and employees greater uniformity and fairness in workplace administration.
C)society more instability because the system advocated conflictual settlements.
D)line supervisors more power in personnel decision making processes.
2
What was the important consequence of the AFL convention in 1935?
A)The AFL agreed to end its craft principle and allowed industrial workers to join the organization.
B)The AFL prevented minority organizations from breaking away by promising to provide better employment outcomes for all its members.
C)Individuals in favor of industrial unions broke away from the AFL during the convention and created a new labor organization.
D)The United Mine Workers was able to prevent John L. Lewis from taking control of their union.
3
Which of the following is true about yellow dog contracts?
A)They prevented the employer to engage in unfair labor practices.
B)They prevented workers from joining unions at their workplaces.
C)Courts hoped that such contracts would allow both the employer and the workers to negotiate in collective bargaining contracts.
D)They were a consequence of the major discrimination practices that existed against Chinese–Americans at the workplace.
4
Consider the following statement: "We believe that by organizing entire workers as one single class and by vigorously taking direct action we can convince employers to better our working conditions and accept us as an independent political party." Which of the following groups within the labor movement would agree with this quotation?
A)International Craft Workers of the World
B)The American Federation of Labor
C)The Industrial Workers of the World
D)Business Unionists
5
Which of the following is not true of labor relations during the 1950's?
A)Management always agreed to labor's demands since firms valued stability.
B)New issues, such as unemployment benefits, pensions, severance payments, and other fringe benefits became included in the scope of bargaining.
C)Unions focused their energies on improving wage and benefit gains as a result of the merger of the AFL and the CIO.
D)Passage of the Landrum Griffin Act.







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