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Last year, a retired schoolteacher moved her parents from Michigan to northern Illinois to live with her. For the past year, she was traveling two times each month to provide care for this 86-year-old couple, including coordinating medical services and meals. In conversations with her family members, the teacher remarked, "If I were not already retired, I would have to quit my job to continue this way!" This retired teacher:

A) is in an unusual situation because there are more persons entering the workforce with child care issues than with taking care of aging Americans.
B) is like a growing number of families whose households are caring for aging parents and relatives.
C) will benefit by all the affordable elder care facilities that cost about $20,000 per year.
D) should be advised that Medicare and Medicaid are covering all medical expenses for person 65 years and older, so she should not be experiencing such a burden.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Union membership is likely to rise in the coming decade, because the same economic and political conditions that gave rise to unions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are now reappearing.

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B) False

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The unions of the 21st century are likely to be quite different from those in the past.

Concord Communications anticipated that 10,000 workers were planning to strike over unfair compensation. Management started to call staffing agents to temporarily employ persons to cover for striking employees. Traditionally, these workers are called

________ is the process by which a union becomes recognized by the National Labor Relations Board as the bargaining agent for a group of employees.

Postal workers and other employees of the federal government who provide important services are allowed to form unions, but are denied the right to strike.

The presence of formal labor organizations in the United States dates back to the late 1700s.

A common tactic of management in labor disputes is the use of secondary boycotts.

Until passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, under a closed shop agreement, a company could only hire workers who already belonged to a union.

The purpose of the earliest recognized labor unions in the U.S. was

Under ________, workers are not required to join the union, but those who do not join are still required to pay a union fee or regular dues to the union.

The Norris-LaGuardia Act made it more difficult for unions to legally recruit new members.

Identify several laws that significantly influenced labor-management relations. Discuss the major provisions of each law.

Economist Thomas Piketty is very critical of the exorbitant compensations that some CEOs are getting.

George, an unskilled worker in the 1930s, toiled 10 hours a day on an assembly line. His hours were long, his wages were low, and his working conditions were unsafe and unpleasant. George would probably have been more sympathetic to the views of John L. Lewis than to those of Samuel Gompers.

Identify and discuss three controversial employee-management issues.

Hiring strikebreakers to replace striking workers was historically a common management tactic during labor disputes, but it is seldom used today.

A mediator has the power to impose a binding settlement on labor and management.

When union members who have a dispute with a company walk around outside the firm's place of business carrying signs and talking to the media and public about their concerns, they are using a tactic known as

The first federal minimum wage was established in 1938 by the