LABOR ISSUES , EMPLOYMENT LAW AND CONFLICTS MGT.

1)Some of earliest forms of involuntary labor in colonial America were comprised of:

a)Slaves brought across the Atlantic from Africa

b)Native Americans already present in the New World

c)Fellow colonists who couldn't pay their debts

d)All of the above

2) The three part slavery trade system between Europe, Africa, and the New World was an example of:

a) Insider Trading

b) Triangular Trading

c) Dutch dealing

d) Colonial stock exchange

3) A majority of colonists (nearly 2/3 of them) came to the New World under what kind of contractual arrangement?

a)Uber sailors

b)Independent contractors

c)Arranged marriages

d)Indentured servitude

4) The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Lawrence Strike of 1912, the Ludlow Massacre (1914), and the Great Steel Strike of 1919 - these were all examples of strikes that took place in protest of:

a) Pay reductions

b) Working conditions

c) Work hours

d) All of the above

5) The following federal law was passed in the early 20^th century, primarily to address labor disputes between railroad workers and their employers, but was later amended to include airline industry labor:

a) Reading Railroad Act

b) Trains and Planes Act

c) Railway Labor Act

d) Federal Transportation Act

6) In response to several labor disputes and strikes like the ones in Question 4, New York Senator Robert F. Wagner took a lead role in passing the following law:

a)Wagner Act

b)National Labor Relations Act

c)Both a and b

d)None of the above

7) What were the different types of "shops" under the original NLRA?

a) Open, Agency, Union

b) Open, Closed, Agency, Union

c) Union, Strike, Closed, Open

d) None of the above

8) Which of the following statements is not true?

a) The NLRA was passed with a goal of protecting employees from unfair practices by employers or unions

b) The Taft-Hartley Act amended the NLRA to weaken unions and give employees more freedom to choose whether they wanted to get involved

c) The Landrum-Griffin Act protected against unfair practices by unions, prohibiting secondary boycotts and imposing codes of conduct on the unions.

d) The NLRA included a "free speech clause" that allowed employers to interfere with union participation and make it a condition of employment for employees to not join a union.

9) The Taft-Hartley Act did which of the following?

a) Made it illegal for employees to strike when in a labor dispute with their employer

b) Allowed employees from a secondary company not involved in a particular labor dispute to strike to help resolve the labor dispute between the primary company and its employees

c) Both a and b

d) None of the above

10) Which of the following is true in "right to work" states?

a) Employees cannot work for an employer unless they join a union

b) Railway and Airline workers may still be required to pay union dues, because the RLA still applies

c) Public sector employee have a right to not work, and may strike to protest wages

d) All of the above