Ch10 Organized Labor And The FO

Question 1

The range, scope, and task of a fire officer supervisor activities are defined by three primary components:

Answer 1

The local labor contract.

Municipalities personnel regulations.

The FD rules, regulations and procedures.

Question 2

Keeping an _____Is critical to an effective fective supervisor-employee relationship

Answer 2

Open line of communication

Question 3

The intervention of a neutral third-party in an industrial dispute

Answer 3

Mediation

Question 4

The formal line between labor and management is often if that was at a higher level, such as?

Answer 4

Administrative fire officer

Question 5

Formal structured process that is employed within an organization to resolve a grievance

Answer 5

Grievance procedure

Question 6

The employees union representative usually becomes formally involved at either the___step of the grievance process

Answer 6

First or second

Question 7

This act specified that an employee could not be forced into a contract by an employer as part of obtaining and keeping a job

Answer 7

Noris LaGuardia act of 1932

Question 8

When employers are required workers to sign a pledge that they would not join a union as long as the company employee them, these pledges were called?

Answer 8

Yellow dog contracts

Question 9

President Franklin Roosevelt initiated the____act of 1933, it guaranteed unions the right to collective bargaining to keep wages up for employees purchasing power

Answer 9

national industry recovery act of 1933 (NIRA)

Question 10

The blank act established the procedures that are commonly called collective-bargaining

Answer 10

Wagner Connery act of 1935

Question 11

This act grants workers the right to decide, by majority vote, which organization will represent them at the labor-management bargaining table

Answer 11

Wagner Connery act

Question 12

This act gave workers the right to refrain from joining a union and apply the unfair labor practice provisions to unions as well as two employers

Answer 12

Taft Hartley labor act of 1947

Question 13

This act prohibited the union from forcing management to fire anti-union or nonunion workers

Answer 13

Taft Hartley labor act of 1947

Question 14

The most significant provision of the Taft Hartley labor act that affects firefighters is referred to as?

Answer 14

“Strikes during a national emergency”

Question 15

This act revealed evidence of a crime and corruption and some of the older local unions. It also established a bill of rights for members of labor organizations

Answer 15

Landrum Griffin act of 1955

Question 16

Federal legislation passed in 1912 prohibits federal employees from?

Answer 16

Striking

Question 17

A worker must be a member of a particular union to work for the company.

Answer 17

Closed shop

Question 18

___Provided worker with the option of remaining outside the union

Answer 18

Open shops

Question 19

The worker cannot be compelled as a condition of employment, to join or pay dues to a labor union

Answer 19

Right to work laws

Question 20

The most recent series a firefighter strikes occurred between?

Answer 20

1973 1980

Question 21

A blank occurs when the parties have reached a deadlock in negotiations

Answer 21

Impasse

Question 22

Requires overtime to be compensated at time and a half pay-that is 150% of employees regular hourly wage

Answer 22

FLSA

Fair labor standards act