Question Question 1 “Employees’ often represent the least significant participant category in the labor relations process since their actions are controlled by union leaders and/or management officials.

Question 1

1. “Employees’ often represent the least significant participant category in the labor relations process since their actions are controlled by union leaders and/or management officials.

   True

   False

3 points 

Question 2

1. Arbitrators, unlike mediators do not have authority to make final and binding decision concerning labor disputes.

   True

   False

3 points 

Question 3

1. Mediators have binding legal authority to require the parties to settle an interest dispute, but they often first restrict themselves to offering advice to help each party to clarify their own priorities and assessment of costs or risks associated with failing to reach a voluntary agreement.

   True

   False

3 points 

Question 4

1. The negotiation of compensation for and number of intervals for bus drivers reflects which technological component?

   		a. Tasks to be performed.
   		b.Equipment used.
   		c.The pace of work.
   		d.none of these
   		e.all of these

3 points 

Question 5

1. When the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) was passed, it:

   		a. substantially lowered the wages of Mexican employees, such as truck drivers, in comparison to their U.S. counterparts.
   		b.contained a 25-year phase-in to increase tariffs between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
   		c.was unsuccessfully opposed by organized labor.
   		d.all of these
   		e.contained a 25-year phase-in to increase tariffs between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. and substantially lowered the wages of Mexican employees, such as truck drivers, in comparison to their U.S. counterparts.

3 points 

Question 6

1. The CIO split from the AFL because of the CIO’s emphasis on:

   		a. Employee Representation Plans.
   		b.having Gompers “lead CIO unions into greatness.”
   		c.organizing craft workers.
   		d.Republican party politics.
   		e.organizing employees in mass-production industries.

3 points 

Question 7

1. The Pullman Strike:

   		a. reflected the importance of international forces in labor disputes.
   		b.increased the membership and strengthened the power of the ARU.
   		c.showed that rival unions such as the AFL and the ARU can pull together on significant labor disputes.
   		d.illustrated that a small union like the ARU can overcome a large employer if members rally to a common cause.
   		e.largely resulted in the elimination of an AFL rival, namely, the American Railway Union (ARU).

3 points 

Question 8

1. Two major bargaining issues since World War II have been adjustments to technological change and safeguards against inflation.

   True

   False

3 points 

Question 9

1. The AFL under Gompers’ leadership believed the existing social system should be dramatically changed by any means possible, including revolutionary methods if necessary.

   True

   False

3 points 

Question 10

1. The “criminal conspiracy” doctrine means that union organizing prior to 1842 could result in an injunction against the union organizers.

   True

   False

3 points 

Question 11

1. An employee alleging unlawful discharge is under affirmative duty to seek comparable employment to mitigate the respondent employer’s potential back-pay liability while awaiting a final determination of the merit of the ULP charge.

   True

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