Deck 5: Why and How Unions Are Organized

Question 1

Professional employees provide a challenge to a union's desire to increase membership due to the issue of compatibility of unionism with professionalism.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Unions are attractive to the many employees concerned about job security regardless of their skill level.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A company may be ordered to recognize and bargain with a union if employees' signatures on authorization cards were obtained under threat or coercion.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Illegal discharge of employees who are union advocates usually does not decrease the probability of a successful unionization.

Question 5

In the last decade,decertification elections have nearly doubled.

Question 6

The union organizer typically creates job dissatisfaction in the work force before the campaign begins.

Question 7

The NLRB has upheld the right of the union to discipline union members who actively participate in the campaign to decertify the union as long as the action does not affect employment status.

Question 8

Management is allowed to present "captive audience" speeches on the day of the election.

Question 9

The employer must file a list of names and addresses of all eligible voters with the regional director of the NLRB within thirty days after the regional director of the NLRB has approved a consent election.

Question 10

If employees choose to decertify their union,there cannot be another representation election for twelve months.

Question 11

Employers agree that signed authorization cards are accurate predictors of the number of votes for the union in elections.

Question 12

The union must obtain signed authorization cards from a majority of the bargaining unit employees before the NLRB will hold an election.

Question 13

Employer questioning of an employee to discern union sentiment is an automatic violation of NLRA section 8 (a)(1).

Question 14

Union instrumentality is a concept meaning employees perceive the union as instrumental in attaining desired outcomes,such as higher wages.

Question 15

The NLRB prohibits the showing of films to discourage employees from joining a union.

Question 16

The "captive audience" rule states that an employer who presents a "captive audience" speech must allow the union the opportunity to conduct its own "captive audience" speech.

Question 17

Employees' previous experience with a union is a strong predictor of their attitudes toward unions and their decision to join one.

Question 18

After a decertification petition is filed with the NLRB,the employer must still bargain with the union until the question of representation is resolved.

Question 19

A simple majority of employees that vote in a union representation election is required in order for employees to win union representation.

Question 20

The company may actively assist employees who are interested in launching a decertification campaign.

Question 21

Whenever employees believe that the union is not representing the interests of the majority,employees may initiate a:

A) Reelection process.
B) Decertification process.
C) Deunionization.
D) "Raid" election.
E) Sit-down strike.

Question 22

What percent of the anticipated bargaining unit is needed to conduct a representation election?

A) 30%
B) 20%
C) 40%
D) 50%
E) greater than 50%

Question 23

In forming and joining a union,employees mainly consider whether the union will improve their personal situations in terms of wages and benefits,promotional opportunities,and job security.

Question 24

Which of the following is not an action by employer to encourage unionization?

A) Ability to inform employees of the possibility of improvement without cost and without the creation of a new bureaucracy.
B) Difficulty to communicate with management.
C) Use of the fact that most people find the thought of substantial change in their lives frightening.
D) Internal promotions.
E) Poor work environment.

Question 25

The NLRB rule which specifies that a valid,signed agreement for a fixed period of three years or less will bar any representation election for the life of the agreement is called the:

A) Excelsior rule.
B) Employee free choice act.
C) Contract bar doctrine.
D) Mandatory Secret Ballot Protection Act.
E) Taft-Hartley Act.

Question 26

The following are paths that workers may mobilize along to take collective action and support the union except:

A) The ''frustration'' which results when workers try to act on their own behalf.
B) The ''threat'' or an ''attack'' that results when the employer takes away or threatens to take away something the workers already have.
C) A ''rational calculation,'' which does not involve anger,but the workers become convinced that the benefits of unionization outweigh its costs.
D) Employee empowerment.
E) Threats,attacks,and rational calculations.

Question 27

Positive human resource management practices,such as job enrichment/enlargement,internal promotions,learning opportunities,bonus and merit pay,and employee involvement programs,seem to increase nonunion workers' desire to vote for a union in a representation election.

Question 28

How long can the contract bar doctrine extend the 12-month statutory limitation on elections?

A) Three years.
B) 24 months.
C) 48 months.
D) Five years.
E) Seventy-eight weeks.

Question 29

As a result of significant changes in the workforce,unions are investing funds in training union organizers.

Question 30

One of the reasons employees become alienated from their work is their loss of involvement in their work when the machine dominated.

Question 31

The following is NOT a method or procedure in organizing unions:

A) NLRB directives.
B) Secret-ballot elections.
C) Voluntary recognition
D) Sit-down strikes.
E) Card Check Procedure.

Question 32

Under the NLRA,the group of employees that has a choice on whether to be included in a mixed bargaining unit is:

A) Plant guards.
B) Supervisors.
C) Independent contractors.
D) Professionals.
E) Confidential employees.

Question 33

A valid,signed agreement for a period of up to three years will bar any representation election for the life of the agreement is specified by the NLRB's:

A) Three-year election rule.
B) Contract bar doctrine.
C) Life-of-the-contract doctrine.
D) Election time-out rule.
E) Exclusionary election rule.

Question 34

The union pre-election campaign usually goes through the following stages except:

A) Contacting employees for help or distribution of union literature.
B) Airing grievances.
C) Calling meetings.
D) Identifying and educating leaders.
E) Soliciting signatures on authorization cards.

Question 35

Which of the following employer tactic(s)has(ve)a negative effect (union loses)on election outcome?

A) Small group meetings
B) House calls
C) Committees of employees
D) Demonstration of solidarity
E) Hiring a labor lawyer.

Question 36

Unions are improving their organizing capabilities through the training of union organizers at the ___________.

A) Campaign and Election Tactics Program (CETP)Center.
B) Institute for Unions
C) George Meany Center.
D) Union Training Association.
E) Union Hall.

Question 37

A grouping of jobs or positions in which two or more employees share common employment and conditions and are at the discretion of the NLRB is a/an:

A) Craft shop.
B) Union shop.
C) Appropriate bargaining unit.
D) Open shop.
E) Closed shop

Question 38

When the NLRB establishes an appropriate bargaining unit,it constitutes the "community of interests." Which of the following factors is NOT considered by the NLRB?

A) History of bargaining
B) Commonality of wages,working conditions,training,and skill
C) Physical proximity of the world locations
D) Transfers between facilities
E) Employees in a single plant only.

Question 39

Surface Bargaining,is where the company "goes through the motions" of negotiating a contract with the intention of reaching an agreement.

Question 40

How long after a consent election must an employer file a list of names,mailing and e-mail addresses,and phone numbers of all eligible voters?

A) Two business days.
B) 24 hours
C) 14 business days.
D) 30 business days.
E) 60 business days.

Question 41

When employees are required to attend a meeting to hear a presentation by the employer during a pre-election union campaign,the meeting is called a/an:

A) Captive audience.
B) Shop talk.
C) Union discussion.
D) Closed audience.
E) Open audience.

Question 42

The book A Theory of the Labor Movement,in which the Scarcity Consciousness Theory is described was written by:

A) Samuel Gompers
B) Karl Marx
C) George Meany
D) Selig Perlman
E) John L.Lewis

Question 43

The theory based on the belief that employees might seek collective action to relieve their feelings of alienation is called the:

A) ​Scarcity Consciousness Theory.
B) ​Alienation Theory.
C) ​Theory of the Labor Movement.
D) ​Laissez Faire Theory.
E) ​Totality of Conduct Theory.

Question 44

The bill that if passed,will make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to recognize or bargain with a union that has not been selected by a majority of employees in a secret ballot election is called the:

A) ​Employee Free Choice Act.
B) ​Secret Ballot Protection Act.
C) ​Taft-Hartley Act.
D) ​National Labor Relations Act.
E) ​Employment Relations Act.

Question 45

The union strategy that would place a union organizer in a job within a targeted company for the purpose of initiating unionization is called:

A) ​Canvassing.
B) ​Solicitation strategy.
C) ​Seeding.
D) ​Union salts.
E) ​Union enticer.

Question 46

What percentage of the eligible voters usually vote in NLRB elections?

A) 50 percent.
B) 70 percent.
C) 90 percent.
D) 60 percent.
E) 80 percent.

Question 47

The rules that are allowed in health care facilities when they are applied to patient's rooms,sitting rooms,operating rooms,and any other place patients receive treatment which affects the patients' recovery are called:

A) ​Solicitation rules.
B) ​No-solicitation rules.
C) Break-room rules.​
D) ​Meeting rooms rules.
E) ​Canvassing rules.

Question 48

The legal duty of the exclusive bargaining agent after winning a representation election is to:

A) Represent all employees who voted in the election.
B) Represent fairly all employees in the bargaining unit.
C) Represent all union members in the bargaining unit.
D) Represent all employees of the Company.
E) Represent all employees who voted in the election and all union members in the bargaining unit.

Question 49

The bill that required the NLRB to certify a union if the majority of employees signed union authorization cards,stated a procedure for the invocation of the first collective bargaining agreement,and imposed penalties for employer violations of certain unfair labor practices was called the:

A) ​Employee Free Choice Act.
B) ​Secret Ballot Protection Act.
C) ​Taft-Hartley Act.
D) ​National Labor Relations Act.
E) ​Employment Relations Act.

Question 50

Which of the following groups are not considered "employees" and may not be in any bargaining unit?

A) Professional employees
B) Craft employees
C) Office employees
D) Long-distance truck drivers
E) Supervisors