Chapter 32

Question 1

AFL-CIO

Answer 1

The 1955 combination of the AFL and the CIO.

Question 2

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Answer 2

A federal administrative agency that oversees union elections, prevents employers and unions from engaging in illegal and unfair labor practices, and enforces and interprets certain federal labor laws.

Question 3

Section 7 of the NLRA

Answer 3

A law that gives employees the right to join together to form a union.

Question 4

Inaccessibility Exception

Answer 4

A rule that permits employees and union officials to engage in union solicitation on company property if the employees are beyond reach of reasonable union efforts to communicate with them.

Question 5

Section 8(a) of the NLRA

Answer 5

A law that makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with, coerce, or restrain employees from exercising their statutory right to form and join unions.

Question 6

Collective Bargaining

Answer 6

The act of negotiating contract terms between an employer and the members of a union.

Question 7

Collective Bargaining Agreement

Answer 7

The contract that results from a collective bargaining procedure.

Question 8

Union Shop

Answer 8

A workplace where an employee must join the union within a certain number of days after being hired.

Question 9

Agency Shop

Answer 9

A workplace where an employee does not have to join the union but must pay a fee equal to the union dues.

Question 10

Strike

Answer 10

A cessation of work by union members in order to obtain economic benefits or correct an unfair labor practice.

Question 11

Cooling-Off Period

Answer 11

A mandatory 60 days’ notice before a strike can commence.

Question 12

Employer Lockout

Answer 12

An act of an employer to prevent employees from entering the work premises when the employer reasonably anticipates a strike.

Question 13

Picketing

Answer 13

The action of strikers walking in front of an employer’s premises, carrying signs announcing their strike.

Question 14

Secondary Boycott Picketing

Answer 14

A type of picketing in which a union tries to bring pressure against an employer by picketing the employer’s suppliers or customers.

Question 15

Title I of the Landrum-Griffin Act

Answer 15

Labor’s “bill of rights,” which gives each union member equal rights and privileges to nominate candidates for union office, vote in elections, and participate in membership meetings.

Question 16

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Answer 16

A federal act that requires employers with 100 or more employees to give their employees 60 days’ notice before engaging in certain plant closings or layoffs.