Collective Bargaining Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Collective Bargaining explores the process through which employers and employees, typically represented by unions, negotiate and determine conditions of employment such as wages, working hours, benefits, and workplace policies. This course examines the legal frameworks, negotiation strategies, historical development, and socioeconomic implications of collective bargaining in various industries. Students will analyze case studies, assess the roles of mediators and arbitrators, and understand the impact of collective bargaining on labor-management relations, organizational outcomes, and public policy.
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Michael R. Carrell
Chapter 1: The American Labor Movement
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Q1) The primary motive behind the creation of the Civil Service System was to:
A) Allow a "spoils system" to operate legally.
B) Permit lobbying by federal employees.
C) Increase federal employees' pay levels.
D) Provide job security for federal employees.
Answer: D
Q2) Federal labor organizations are prohibited from engaging in a work stoppage.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Knights of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations joined in 1955. A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) The Family and Medical Leave Act law requires employers to give employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family reasons.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Changing Workplace
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Q1) In 1907, the first convention of the Women's Trade Union League adopted an _____point platform.
A) Eight
B) Six
C) Five
D) Three
Answer: B
Q2) The National Women's Trade Union League adopted all of the following as goals for the organization in 1907 except:
A) Equal pay for equal work
B) Full citizenship for women
C) An eight-hour workday
D) Overtime pay
Answer: D
Q3) Work teams that have the authority to make decisions and act without employer approval are illegal under the NLRA.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Establishing a Bargaining Process
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Q1) The NLRB may add new classes of employees to existing units if they have a similar community of interest by utilizing the:
A) Wagner Act.
B) Globe Doctrine.
C) Accretion Doctrine.
D) Mallinckrodt Doctrine.
Answer: C
Q2) The phrase "members in good standing" found in the union security clause refers to:
A) Employees are to join the union 30 to 90 days after being hired.
B) Employees required to pay union dues.
C) Employers are only allowed to hire union members.
D) Employers have the option to choose either full or limited membership.
Answer: D
Q3) Privately owned nonprofit hospitals are not exempt from the National Labor Relations Act.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Organizational Campaigns
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Q1) Based on self-organization within a labor union, employees don't have the right to engage in organizational campaigns.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Generally, which of the following is true of organizing campaigns?
A) Oral solicitation by employees on work premises is allowed during nonwork hours.
B) Literature distribution on work premises is allowed during work hours.
C) Literature distribution in work areas is restricted to nonwork hours.
D) Oral solicitation by nonemployees on work premises is allowed during work hours.
Q3) During a union organizing campaign, which of the following would usually be considered a legal employer activity?
A) Withholding a Christmas bonus.
B) Telling employees what the effects of unionism might be.
C) Threatening to close the plant.
D) Creating undesirable working conditions.
Q4) Boulwarism is not lawful under the National Labor Relation Act.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Negotiation Process
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Q1) Which of the following would the NLRB probably not consider a serious act by striking employees who would then warrant discharge by the employer?
A) Throwing rocks or eggs at replacement workers.
B) Vandalizing a supervisor's car.
C) Carrying a gun on the picket line while making verbal threats.
D) Yelling obscenities at managers.
Q2) The fourth objective in principled negotiating is to have the validity of each party's proposals judged by objective criteria.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In negotiations, it is essential to know what the other party believes to be true and what is true.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The outcome of the PATCO strike of 1981 was:
A) Almost all workers were eventually rehired.
B) All striking workers were fired, but most were rehired.
C) All striking workers lost several weeks pay and seniority.
D) No striking workers were rehired during Republican presidencies.
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Chapter 6: Collective Bargaining: Strategies and Tactics
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Q1) The collaborative process of interest based bargaining has emerged in recent years as one of the most visible and practiced innovations in negotiations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In traditional negotiations, IBB advocates claim, because the bargainers must defend their own "arbitrary position - "I must have this price" or "this is my position, take it or leave it" - and attack the arbitrary positions of the other party, the parties often must resort to yelling and threatening as a means of making their points.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _____ states that 80% of what is accomplished occurs as a result of 20% of the effort.
A) Pareto's Law
B) BATNA
C) WATNA
D) WAVE
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Chapter 7: Compensation Issues
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Q1) About 55% of the civilian U.S. labor force is covered by a COLA provision.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Within a Scalon plan, departmental committees of union and management representatives meet together at least monthly to consider any cost-saving suggestions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The productivity theory states that employees should share in increased profits caused by greater productivity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A back-loaded contract provides a lower wage adjustment in the first year with higher increases in later years of a multiyear contract.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Wages and benefits are the "meat and potatoes" of collective bargaining.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Employee Benefits
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Q1) Worker's compensation has been effectively removed from the collective bargaining process by state laws.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the 2005 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, _______% of U.S. workers have unpaid leave.
A) 90
B) 61
C) 87
D) 55
Q3) Supplemental Unemployment is normally given to employees whose jobs are phased out.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Unions cannot legally declare a strike over retiree benefits because they are permissive, not mandatory, bargaining issues.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Seniority Rights
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Q1) Arbitrators have generally concluded that if reasonable doubt exists as to the ability of a senior employee to perform a job, the best criteria for making the promotion decision would be:
A) Previous experience on similar jobs.
B) A trial period on the open job.
C) Appropriate written tests.
D) Educational background.
Q2) _______ was a campaign that started the testing of job applicants and employees in the 1980's.
A) Subcontracting
B) Outsourcing
C) Job-bidding
D) Drug free workplace
Q3) In which type of organization would job security issues involving layoff and recall be less important to employees?
A) Auto manufacturer
B) Public utility
C) Baker
D) Printer
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Chapter 10: Contract Implementation
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Q1) A contract provision which provides that both parties waive any right during the contract term to reopen negotiations for new items is termed a:
A) Closure clause.
B) Zipper clause.
C) Duty clause.
D) Statutory right.
Q2) This contract clause allows negotiations to take place during the contract term on certain items within the contract.
A) Bargain
B) Opener
C) Separability
D) Zipper
Q3) Contracts can have an _____ that allows for negotiations to proceed during the term of the contract on 1 or more items.
A) Contract bar
B) Provisional intent test
C) Opener clause
D) Duty to sign
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Chapter 11: Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures
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Q1) Grievance handling helps unions develop support among members during the life of the agreement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following employee discipline infractions would most likely result in a termination that would not be challenged by a union?
A) Stopping work before a specified time.
B) Loafing during working hours.
C) Intentional insubordination.
D) Mishandling of equipment.
Q3) Only serious offenses are viewed as employee misconduct.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The initial step in a grievance procedure usually instructs the employer to dismiss the claim.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: The Arbitration Process
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Q1) The company normally has the right to eliminate a job it no longer considers necessary; the union, however, may rightfully object if the duties are transferred to other workers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In general, the question of whether the union and management have agreed to arbitration is decided by , while the question of whether a particular grievance is arbitrable is decided by .
A) Labor; management
B) A court; arbitrator
C) Management; labor
D) An arbitrator; a court
Q3) In the United States, which qualification is legally required of arbitrators?
A) Bachelor's degree in related field
B) Law degree
C) Five years' experience as an attorney
D) Arbitrators are not required to have any specific educational or technical training.
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Chapter 13: Comparative Global Industrial Relations
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Q1) This country's committee is made up of elected worker representatives:
A) France.
B) Germany.
C) Italy.
D) Spain.
Q2) International trade unions have grown increasingly suspicious of the negative effects of short-term capital investment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Wal-mart, the U.S. retailer with a history of antiunion policies, allowed unions in stores in China.
A)True
B)False
Q4) FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) has been increasing due to IT technology allowing an easier flow of capital.
A)True
B)False
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