1. The following is not a way the parties, the company management and the employees’ union, can select an arbitrator:
A. They agree to a single umpire.
B. The company management unilaterally determines who the arbitrator will be based on their management rights.
C. They agree to a standing panel from which arbitrators are selected as cases arise.
D. Using one of any number of agencies, private and public, that maintain rosters of arbitrators, vetted by the agency’s standards and procedures, from which a panel of candidates will be submitted to the parties.
2. In cases in which the union is held to violate Section 8(b)(1)(A) by causing or threatening physical violence, the Board will:
A. Require the union to reimburse for physical or mental injury.
B. Not permit the employees engaging in violence to be discharged or otherwise disciplined for their misconduct.
C. Issue a cease-and-desist order.
D. Require the union to reimburse the employee victims for loss of pay.
3. A secondary boycott is:
A. Directed by a union against an employer with whom it has a primary dispute.
B. The application of economic pressure upon a person with whom the union has no dispute regarding its own terms of employment in order to induce that person to cease doing business with another employer with whom the union does have such a dispute.
C. A work stoppage which lacks the approval of the national or international union and usually violate either a collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) or the union constitution.
D. A strike in which the workers refuse to work but stay inside the employer’s premises.
4. A jurisdictional dispute:
A. Must be resolved by the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") in as much as there is no other way for the parties to such dispute to voluntarily adjust their dispute.
B. Will always be referred to the National Mediation Board for a final resolution.
C. Will always be referred to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for a final resolution.
D. Is a dispute between two unions as to which shall represent a group of employees in collective bargaining or as to which union’s members shall perform a certain type of work.
Answer -
1. The correct answer is D
2. The correct answer is C
3. The correct answer is B
4. The correct answer is D
1. The following is not a way the parties, the company management and the employees’ union,...
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