BUSLAW Chapter 22

Ralph was considering hiring George to work in his grocery store as a shelf stocker. To ensure that George is a citizen or permitted to work in the United States, Ralph should ask George to complete the following document:

An I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form

Strike activities, such as picketing, _____________ protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment.

are

NMWU demands of a 10% increase in wages _________ illegal conduct.

is not

Toffel Manufacturing has been requested by its employees' union to bargain with it. Union representatives express interest in negotiating wages and working hours for its workers. Management at the company declines to bargain with the union because any renegotiation would increase the company's operating costs. Toffel Manufacturing's refusal to bargain:

is not permitted because employers and unions have a duty to bargain in good faith, and bargaining is mandatory for subjects relating to wages or working hours.

Members of the Metal Workers Union are in negotiations with MetalCo, their employer. Union members want MetalCo to agree to not handle or use any materials provided by MetalCo's suppliers that employ nonunion employees. This practice:

is not permitted because it is an illegal hot-cargo agreement.

Quick Dry, a dry-cleaning firm, wants to hire Javier Guitterez as an employee. Under immigration laws, which of the following would not be sufficient to verify Javier's eligibility to work in the United States?

A driver's license.

Marta needs an electrician to do some work at her home. Her father advises her to make sure that the firm she plans to hire is not a closed shop. Marta is not sure what this means, but later learns that the "closed shop" that her father was referring to is:

a firm that requires union membership by its workers as a condition of employment.

For a strike practice to be considered massed picketing, it must form a ____________

barrier that denies access to plant

Melinda is a leader of a group attempting to unionize employees of an automobile factory. Melinda asks workers to stop what they are doing on the assembly line in order to read a flyer and fill out a three page survey. Managers of the automobile factory:

can prevent Melinda's unionization activities if it has a legitimate business reason for doing so.

Under these facts, union members _____________ let nonunion workers and management in and out of the factory grounds.

did

Persons who are not employees _____________ have a right to participate in picketing an employer.

do

Most strikes take the form of _____________ strikes where they are initiated because the union wants a better contract.

economic

Forest Products is a mill that has always successfully resisted unionization of its workers by offering better pay and benefits than other employers. Nevertheless, Wilson and several others would like to unionize. The first step they will need to take is to:

have workers sign authorization cards.

Denying access to the plant is a(n) ___________ strike practice.

illegal

Contacting local media outlets ___________ permissible activity related to strikes.

is

NMWU's proposal of striking inside the plant _____________ conduct that may cause the strike to be illegal.

is

The right to strike _________ guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

is

When workers strike, they _________ their right to be paid.

lose

When strikers form a barrier and deny access to the plant, this is known as __________

massed picketing

Some conduct by the strikers _________ cause the strikes to be illegal.

may

Negotiators representing Levesque, Inc., are in negotiation with the employees' union regarding terms of a new collective bargaining agreement. Levesque does not want to renegotiate, as it received favorable terms under the current agreement. In order to hold off the union as long as possible, Levesque has been giving unions reasons why they cannot negotiate right now for over eighteen months. This practice is likely:

not a permissible negotiating strategy because excessive delaying tactics constitute impermissible bad faith bargaining.

Steven recently purchased a meat-packing plant in which the employees are unionized. Steven confesses that he knows almost nothing about labor law. In advising him about the National Labor Relations Act, you should tell him that he is prohibited from engaging in all of the following except:

protecting employees' right to strike

A strike in which employees simply stay in the plant without working is known as a ___________________ strike.

sit-down

Therefore, NMWU should __________ using sit-down strikes and massed picketing in order to extract better concessions from Westwood Industries

stop

Therefore, the union's picketing practice ___________ likely be considered illegal behavior.

would not