Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Historical origins provide the key to understanding industrial relations systems.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


2	Solicitation of fellow employees by union organizers are prohibited during work hours.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


3	Employers first reaction to union certification often includes the need to know when and how they can decertify the union.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


4	The Landrum-Griffin Act secures the employees' rights to strike at any time in the life of a labor-management contract.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


5	Due to management demands for wage concessions, the number of strikes increased over the last twenty years.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


6	Most grievances are settled through arbitration.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


7	As employers lost market power during the 1980s union wage dominance:
		A)	remained basically unchanged.
		B)	shifted to other countries.
		C)	shrank and fragmented.
		D)	increased and solidified.


8	________________ characterizes the United States industrial relations system.
		A)	Government in an active role
		B)	Opposition to unionization by small but not by large employers
		C)	Centralized collective bargaining
		D)	High union dues and large union staffs


9	A union may petition another firm or union to cease business with an employer who sells or distributes a struck product resulting in a:
		A)	wildcat strike.
		B)	management lockout.
		C)	sit-down strike.
		D)	secondary boycott.


10	What evidence must be presented to decertify a union?
		A)	employee statements supporting the union's performance
		B)	a majority of employees did not support the union during strike
		C)	union has admitted a lack of majority support
		D)	both b and c


11	A/An _____________ strike occurs when employees of one bargaining unit refuse to cross the picket line of a different bargaining unit.
		A)	unprotected strike
		B)	economic strike
		C)	sympathy strike
		D)	unfair labor practice strike


12	Changes in the economic environment, including ______________ , have affected the course of collective bargaining over the past decade.
		A)	foreign competition
		B)	industry concentration
		C)	nonunion domestic competition
		D)	a and c

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