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Bellandro Bay Brewery union representatives and the company's management have reached an impasse. Going forward, the union is planning an organized strike and other tactics to put pressure on management where it will be most effective. Union supporters are being encouraged to avoid purchasing Bellandro's products. Now union leaders have contacted a variety of stores that stock Bellandro's Beer informing them that union members and other supporters will stop shopping at any store that continues to carry the brewery's beer until the dispute is resolved in the union's favor. This tactic against stores that carry Bellandro's Beer is called a primary boycott.

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In a(n) ________, all of the members are skilled specialists in a particular trade.

A) ESOP
B) craft union
C) industrial union
D) trade federation

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, the president can ask for a(n) ___________ to prevent a strike in a critical industry.

Sexual harassment laws:

A(n) ___________ is a union official who works permanently in an organization and represents employee interests on a daily basis.

Elder care costs are likely to remain a major issue for businesses for many years.

If management and union officials cannot resolve a grievance, a(n) _________ is asked to listen to the arguments of each side and to make a decision that both sides will have to comply with.

The negotiated labor-management agreement clarifies the terms and conditions under which labor and management agree to function over a specified period of time.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 required companies to provide equal pay to men and women who perform the same job.

The first federal minimum wage was established by the:

The National Labor Relations Act gave employees the right to form and join labor organizations and the right to engage in activities such as strikes and boycotts.

Women have become a __________ part of the labor force.

Mississippi has passed a right-to-work law, which means that union shops are illegal in the state.

The NLRB oversees the decertification of unions. An employer (the company owners) can petition and seek the signatures of 30% of the employees in order to decertify the union; in other words, officially, the union could no longer represent the employees in any bargaining negotiations.

The __________ is a tactic police, firefighters, and other workers who are not legally allowed to strike sometimes use to express their frustration and displeasure with working conditions or pay.

Comparable worth primarily is concerned with:

In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex harassment is prohibited by sexual harassment laws.

Workers who are hired to do the jobs of striking workers until the strike is over are called "scabs" by the union.

Under a union shop agreement, workers must belong to a union before they can be hired.

The lockout is the most common tactic used by management today to deal with labor management disputes.