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Some of the employees of Righteous Apps, Inc., decide that they want to be represented by the Science Workers Union in bargaining with Righteous Apps over overtime pay and the times that the offices open and close. Righteous Apps, and some employees, including Truman, are against the union. Who can demand that a union election be held? If the union is elected, does it have to represent Truman? If the union is elected, does Righteous Apps have to bargain over overtime pay and the times that the offices open and close?

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A union election will be held if 30 perc...

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Remedies for a corporate employer's interference with its employees' concerted activity are most likely to include


A) the addition of a union representative to the corporate board of directors.
B) dissolution and reorganization of the company.
C) a cease-and-desist order.
D) all of the choices.

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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Field Workers Union represents employees of Grain Farms Corporation. The union and the employer begin to negotiate a new contract in good faith but hold genuine differences of opinion. The employer may use a lockout


A) if the employer believes that the parties have reached a stalemate.
B) with or without economic justification.
C) as a tool to break the union and pressure workers into decertification.
D) any of the choices.

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

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Healthy Harvest Company runs a fruit processing and packaging plant. Most of Healthy Harvest's business is done during holiday seasons, especially between Halloween and New Year's Day, and in the spring. The company hires a large temporary workforce during its busiest times. Can Healthy Harvest hire noncitizens for its temporary, seasonal work? If so, what procedures must the employer follow to do this hiring? If not, how can Healthy Harvest be assured that it is hiring only citizens?

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It is illegal to hire for work in the Un...

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With increasing industrialization, workers came to believe that to counter the power and freedom of employers, and to protect themselves, they needed to


A) prohibit employers from hiring illegal immigrants.
B) lobby for a myriad of complex rules that employers must follow.
C) engage in labor practices that are considered unfair under federal law.
D) organize into unions.

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

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Heber, Irma, and Jon apply to work for Kitchen Chicken Inc. in Louisiana. These individuals' eligibility to work must be verified by


A) Kitchen Chicken.
B) the applicants.
C) state officials.
D) federal authorities.

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

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Bakers Union petitions the National Labor Relations Board for an election on organizing a union among the employees of Croissant Company. For an election to be held, the union must show that a union or an election is supported by at least 30 percent of the company's


A) union organizers.
B) employees whose jobs are similar.
C) workforce.
D) stakeholders, including the workers.

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

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The National Labor Relations Act established the right of private-sector employees to form unions and to strike.

A) True
B) False

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After a strike, regardless of the outcome, an employer must rehire economic strikers to fill workplace vacancies, but the strikers lose their seniority rights.

A) True
B) False

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Any group of workers can form a single union, without regard to the similarity of their jobs and the location of their workplaces.

A) True
B) False

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Applied Analytics Company encourages its employees to join a union, pays union workers for time spent on union activities, and provides financial aid to the union. Under the National Labor Relations Act, these acts


A) are permitted as long as new hires are not required to join the union.
B) effectively rebut a charge of discrimination against union employees.
C) show the employer recognizes the need to protect employees' rights.
D) may constitute improper domination, an unfair labor practice.

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

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The certification of a union as the representative of all of the employees in a bargaining unit, under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), indicates that the NLRA embraces a policy of majority rule.

A) True
B) False

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Federal labor laws governing union-employer relations


A) protect the rights and interests of workers.
B) place some restraints on unions.
C) grant rights to employers.
D) all of the choices.

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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With respect to immigration law, fines and imprisonment, and a bar from government contracts, may be imposed on an employer who


A) engages in a "pattern or practice of violations."
B) claims that no U.S. worker is "qualified and willing" to take a certain job.
C) does not hire enough domestic workers with "specialized skills."
D) hires a noncitizen worker who is "self-authorized."

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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When workers must be laid off for economic reasons, the company can consider union participation as a criterion for deciding whom to fire.

A) True
B) False

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Mica is an employee of Natural Gas Company and a member of a union of company employees. Under federal law, Mica and other union members have the right to


A) bargain collectively with their employer through their representative.
B) insist that their employer require union membership to work.
C) require their employer to contribute financially to their union.
D) none of the choices.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Bargaining with management to negotiate working conditions, salaries, and benefits is today considered to be an unfair labor practice under federal law.

A) True
B) False

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Nonunion workers, and non-striking union workers, do not have the right to cross a picket line of fellow workers engaged in a lawful strike.

A) True
B) False

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An employer can avoid a charge of committing an unfair labor practice in violation of its employees' rights during a union election campaign by


A) creating an impression of surveillance of union activity.
B) refraining from engaging in conduct on which a charge might be based.
C) interrogating individual employees about union activity.
D) promising to remedy employee grievances immediately after the vote.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Interstate Commodities Inc. keeps a file of I-9 verifications forms, which are required by the Immigration Reform and Control Act. To monitor compliance with the act, random audits and enforcement actions are conducted by


A) the local office of the National Labor Relations Board.
B) the governments of interested foreign nations.
C) the government of the state in which the company is based.
D) the federal government.

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

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