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The CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) organized unskilled and semiskilled workers into:

A) craft unions.
B) a political party.
C) industrial unions.
D) union shops.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Question 132

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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.

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B) False

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Question 133

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The first federal minimum wage was established by the:

Membership in industrial unions was strictly limited to skilled craftspeople.

One of the things that labor is interested in is fair and competent management.

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the third leading cause of job-related fatalities is homicide.

Although child-care concerns have become a pressing issue for many employees, most firms have been unable to find acceptable solutions to these concerns.

The Norris-LaGuardia Act prohibited courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent union activities.

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

Membership in labor unions has grown steadily over the past 50 years.

Anna believes that her manager violated the terms of the negotiated labor-management agreement when he required her to report to work on a holiday. She has discussed her concerns with her shop steward and he agrees with her. It is likely the steward will encourage Anna to:

The law protects both women and men from sexual harassment.

A union security clause in a labor-management agreement stipulates that employees who benefit from a union must either officially join or at least pay dues to the union.

Studies conducted at the University of Michigan found that earnings of women graduating with baccalaureate degrees were:

Labor unions were largely responsible for:

Exceptional Enterprises launched a program to evaluate the relative levels of skills, education, and training needed to perform various jobs. Based on the results of this evaluation, the firm intends to adjust pay scales so that jobs requiring similar levels of skills, abilities, and education will receive similar pay. Exceptional Enterprises' program is an attempt to deal with the issue of:

A Lockout is a tactic utilized by unions when collective bargaining breaks down.

Under a(n) shop agreement, workers must belong to the union before they are hired.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1938 that employers had the right to hire strikebreakers.

Collective bargaining is the process whereby union and management representatives negotiate a labor-management agreement, or contract, for workers.