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HRM Final Exam - Unions and Labor Relations
13%; 10% - ✔✔Union membership in the US has dropped substantially to less than
___% of the non-farm US workforce and less than ___% among private organizations.
union involvement - ✔✔In unionized firms, many of the HR decisions (compensation,
benefits, layoffs, and termination) require _____ _____.
capitalistic - ✔✔Early labor endeavors were quite political and these movements
advocated dramatic reform to the existing _____ system, which was a major factor in
their downfall.
wages; working conditions - ✔✔A few successful trade unions, arising during the Civil
War period, accepted capitalism and focused on basic economic issues such as raising
_____ and improving _____ _____.
Overturned the criminal conspiracy doctrine as actions designed to convince
%
nonmembers to join were no longer seen as criminal. The courts though tended to
sympathize with businesses during this period. - ✔✔Commonwealth v. Hunt
capitalism; economic - ✔✔The American Federation of Labor (AFL) accepted _____
and worked to improve the worker's _____ position
industrial; craft - ✔✔The AFL leadership actively opposed change in the 1930s by
resisting _____ unionists and strictly adhered to _____ unionism.
severely restricted employers ability to obtain an injunction by the courts forbidding the
union from engaging in peaceful picketing or striking and made yellow-dog contracts
(signing a contract saying that the employee would not join a union) unenforceable. -
✔✔Norris-LaGuardia Act
recognized worker's right to organize and bargain collectively with representatives of
their own choosing - ✔✔NLRA/Wagner Act
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strikes - ✔✔After WWII, there were many _____ because of labor's attempt to regain
wages.
This act intended to regulate labor's activities by describing what constituted unfair
labor practices by unions such as: prohibiting union discrimination against workers who
did not want to participate in union activities. It also provided states with the option of
enacting right-to-work laws - ✔✔Taft Hartley Act
declare that union security agreements (union and agency shop) that require
membership as a condition of employment are illegal. - ✔✔right-to-work laws
1955; service - ✔✔One reason union membership began to decline in _____ is that
the labor movement has had more difficulty organizing in the _____ sector.
union growth - ✔✔Right to work laws have hurt _____ _____, especially in the
southern states.
%
It was designed to protect workers from their unions or their leadership. -
✔✔Landrum-Griffin Act
job security - ✔✔Wages and benefits are still key issues but _____ _____ has
become one of the most important issues.
1) perceptions of the work environment
2) desires to participate in or influence employment conditions
3) employee beliefs about the effects of unions - ✔✔Three general reasons Why
Workers Join Unions
job security - ✔✔Recently, one of the key issues for workers has been _____ _____.
easier - ✔✔Most workers find it ______ to fight for work improvements when in a
union.
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