ch 2 employee relations

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding company unions?

A company union is established by the employer.

Which of the following acts is also known as the Wagner Act?

the National Labor Relations Act

Which of the following acts applied primarily to employees engaged in interstate commerce and provided a federal minimum wage and a 44-hour week?

Fair Labor Standards Act

Which of the following is TRUE of the National Colored Labor Union?

It applied for affiliation to the National Labor Union, but was rejected.

Which of the following was the first union that allowed both skilled and unskilled workers to join?

National Labor Union

The ________ Act made "yellow-dog" contracts illegal.

Norris-La Guardia

The Labor-Management Relations Act is also known as the ________ Act.

Taft-Hartley

Which of the following is TRUE of women's trade unions in the U.S.?

The AFL overtly denied the admission of women into the unions.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of the Knights of Labor (KOL)?

The KOL aimed to become national union for skilled and unskilled workers.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?

The political agenda of the IWW was to overthrow capitalism.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was created to enforce provisions of the ________.

Wagner Act

Which of the following was the first national association dedicated to organizing women in America?

Women's Trade Union League

The Davis-Bacon Act required that ________.

companies using federal dollars for construction projects use the "prevailing wage rate" of the area as the minimum-wage rate on their construction projects

Under a "yellow-dog" contract, ________.

employees pledged to refrain from union membership

The National Labor Relations Act ________.

gave private-sector employees the right to unionize and limited employers' retaliatory powers

The term "labor ________" refers to a court order that prohibits any individual or group from performing any act that violates the rights of other individuals concerned.

injunction

The Railway Labor Act required railroad employers to ________.

negotiate with the employees' union

The Taft-Hartley Amendments ________.

protect employees from losing their jobs for not joining a union

Which of the following acts requires employers with federal contracts to pay time and a half to any employee working more than eight hours per day?

the Walsh-Healey Act

Which of the following was the major reason for the formation of the National War Labor Board?

to provide a means of settlement of labor controversies in certain industries