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The Wagner Act is best described as an) :

A) pro-management law.
B) pro-union law.
C) anti-communism law.
D) anti-collective bargaining law.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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A key difference between a mediator and an arbitrator is that:

A) a mediator is appointed by labor and management,while an arbitrator is appointed by the federal government under terms set forth in the Taft-Hartley Act.
B) a mediator is an unpaid volunteer,while an arbitrator is a paid professional.
C) an arbitrator can settle a labor-management dispute by rendering a binding decision,while a mediator can only make suggestions and encourage the two sides in a dispute to continue negotiating.
D) a mediator is a lawyer who represents either labor or management in a labor dispute,while an arbitrator is an impartial advisor who listens to both sides of the dispute and offers suggestions that help the two parties reach a mutually acceptable agreement.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Question 83

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An assessment of elder care needs in the United States suggests that:

An) ___________ is a court order directing someone to do something or to refrain from doing something.

A cooling-off period is when workers in a critical industry return to their jobs while the union and management continue negotiations.

An) __________ occurs when a union encourages its members and the general public not to buy the products of a firm involved in a labor dispute.

Labor and management at the Brookwood Company have reached an impasse in their efforts to negotiate an acceptable labor-management agreement.The two sides have agreed to bring in an arbitrator.If the arbitrator issues a ruling that the union does not like,it can veto the decision.

Under an open shop agreement,workers have the option to join or not join a union,if one is present in the workplace.

A union is an employee organization that has the main goal of representing its members in employee-management negotiation concerning job-related issues.

A comparison of compensation of CEOs in the U.S.with compensation of top executives in Canada and Europe indicates that:

Arbitration and mediation are alike in that both involve an impartial third party to help in the negotiation process.The differences in these two approaches is that an arbitrator's decision is binding - both parties agree to this on the front end;a mediator encourages the two conflicting parties to continue to negotiate and may make suggestions in pursuit of a resolution.

As a management executive left the meeting between his team and the company's union representatives and headed straight for the CEO's office,he reviewed where things seemed to breakdown.Union reps came to the table with three different offers to resolve the insurance and vacation benefits problems laborers were experiencing.Management offered its own resolutions - two different ones,to be exact.The problem was that a bargaining zone did not emerge.Neither side was willing to consider each other's alternatives.As he reached the CEO's door,he was ready to concede that the negotiations were probably headed to ________________.

The late Peter Drucker,one of 20^th century's leading management consultants was very critical of the exorbitant compensations that some CEOs were getting.

The AFL was concerned primarily with:

Marco is the newly appointed CEO of the Sine of the Times Corporation.The board of directors approved an attractive stock option package as part of his total compensation.From this information,you would assume that one of the board's objectives is to stabilize the value of Sine of the Times' stock by preventing it from rising or falling more than a small percentage.

The Taft-Hartley Act strengthened unions by giving them the right to engage in featherbedding and secondary boycotts.

The NLRB National Labor Relations Board) consists of:

When AT&T anticipated that 20,000 mobility workers were planning to strike to show their solidarity against concerns of unfair compensation,management was already calling staffing agents to temporarily employ persons to cover for striking employees.Traditionally,these workers are called ___________.

At Play-it-Safe Pharmaceuticals Company,a maker of sun screen products,the union reps strongly discouraged the firm's union employees from buying the company's products during the forthcoming summer season.Recently,they also took out an ad with an important message for consumers: "Don't give Play-it-Safe your money.They don't share it with their employees!" These actions describe:

The AFL originally was a federation of craft unions that did not attempt to organize industrial unions.The main reason for this strategy was that: