Multiple-Choice Questions
1. During a union organizing drive, management urges workers not to join the union, and discusses a competing company which lost business after a union was formed. Management
(a) Committed a ULP by urging workers to reject the union, but did not do so by discussing a competing company.
(b) Committed a ULP by discussing a competing company, but did not do so by urging workers to reject the union.
(c) Committed a ULP both by urging workers to reject the union and by discussing a competitor.
(d) Committed no ULP.
(e) Has violated other sections of the NLRA.
2. Which of these does the NLRA not protect?
(a) Right to form a union.
(b) Right to picket.
(c) Right to strike.
(d) Right to block nonunion workers from company property.
(e) Right to bargain collectively.
3. The CBA at Red Corp. has expired, as has the CBA at Blue Corp. At Red, union and management have bargained a new CBA to impasse. Suddenly, Red locks out all union workers. The next day, during a bargaining session at Blue, management announces that it will not discuss pay increases.
(a) Red has committed a ULP but Blue has not.
(b) Blue has committed a ULP but Red has not.
(c) Both Blue and Red have committed ULPs.
(d) Neither company has created a ULP.
(e) Red and Blue have violated labor laws, but not by committing ULPs.
4. When the union went on strike, the company replaced Ashley, a union member, with Ben, a non-union member. The strike is now over, and a Federal court has ruled that this was a ULP strike. Does Ashley get her job back?
(a) The company is obligated to hire Ashley, even if that requires laying off Ben.
(b) The company is obligated to hire Ashley unless that would require laying off Ben.
(c) The company is obligated to hire Ashley only if Ben voluntarily leaves.
(d) The company's only obligation is to notify Ashley of future job availability.
(e) The company has no obligation at all to Ashley.
5. When new hires are forced to join an existing union, a union shop _______ exist. This kind of arrangement ________ legal under the NLRA.
(a) Does; is
(b) Does; is not
(c) Does not; is
(d) Does not; is not