Labor Law Questions
Single
A process that involves management and the union negotiating and coming to agreement about wages, hours and conditions of employment. This process entails the workers negotiating in an organized way for all workers rather than striking agreements with each individual worker
Collective bargaining
1 point
Single
When labor agrees that they will not strike against the company
No strike clause
1 point
Double
An order by the court that requires the party to stop doing what they are doing that is causing harm to someone else.
Injunction
2 points
Double
When management and the union negotiate, wages, hours and conditions of employment are to be talked about in good faith
Mandatory subject of bargaining
2 points
Triple
When union employees carry signs that display why they are striking or why they think things are being done unfairly by the company
Picketing
3 points
Triple
Activities by an employee or groups of employees geared toward trying to improve their lot at their workplace. This can be union organizing, talking about unionization or other activities about the workplace
Concerted activities
3 points
Home run
A strike that workers conduct, but are not authorized or sanctioned by the union. These would be illegal if this strike forces management to deal directly with the employees rather than through the union
Wildcat strike
4 points
Home run
An illegal contract that employers used to stop the progression of unions.
This contract required employees to sign a contract saying they will not join a union while employed for them.
Yellow Dog Contracts
4 points

Single
When management agrees that they will not prevent the employees from coming to work
No lockout clause
1 point
Double
The contract that has been agreed upon between management and the union
Collective bargaining agreement
2 points
Single
A company interfering with the employees right to form a labor organization (union) would constitute this
Unfair labor practice
1 point
Single
A recognized organization that represents a group of employee. An example may be the
Teamsters, the AFL-
Double
A clause that the business will surely want to have in a collective bargaining agreement that says management has the right to run the business and to make business decisions as long as they comply with the terms of the contract and other laws.
Management security clause
2 points
Double
The Sherman Anti-
Trust act made it illegal for unions to use this method of pressuring management to
Triple
This law was passed as an amendment to the NLRA and put some restraints on the unions because they had grown to be
Triple
The federal agency that oversees and enforces labor laws in the private sector.
They are the entity that oversees unionization efforts, issues labor regulations and are responsible to hear unfair labor practice cases.
NATIONAL LABOR
RELATIONS BOARD
(NLRB)
3 points
Triple
This law enacted in
1935 is the backbone law that established the right of employees to form unions, to bargain collectively and to strike.
National Labor
Relations Act (also called Wagner Act –
NLRA is common terminology)
3 points
Home run
The concept of protected, concerted activity is protected in this section of this law
Section 7 of the NLRA
4 points
Home run
What constitutes an unfair labor practice for employers is outlined in this section of this law
Section 8 of the NLRA
4 points
Home run
This law was one of the first major laws in support of the labor unions. This law endorsed collective bargaining as a

CIO, NEA
Union
1 point change by instigating other people who do business with the company to stop doing business with them until the employees got what they wanted. (What is this method described that was outlawed.)
Secondary Boycott
2 points too strong and powerful. This law gave people the right
NOT to join a union
Taft Hartley Act
3 points matter of public policy (not law) and also cut down on the court’s usage of injunctions to resolve labor disputes as had been done in the past
Norris-LaGuardia Act
4 points

Single
Federal and most state union employees don’t generally have this right that private union employees have
Right to strike
1 point
Double
This entity is in charge of administering federal sector labor laws. This agency is the federal counterpart to the private sector’s NLRB
FLRA(Federal Labor
Relations Authority)
Triple
This clause in a union contract requires that the employer have all union members or potential member agree to join the union within a certain time from becoming employed. This clause applies in non “right to work” states.
Union shop clause
Home run
This clause in a contract requires nonunion members to pay the union the usual union dues and fees without actually joining the union. This subjects the person to the union rules
Agency Shop Clause