Labor Unions & Employment

What federal law outlawed the use of closed shops?

• Taft-Hartley Act

• Clayton Act

• Fair Labor Standards Act

• Wagner Act

The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.

• Labor Unions

• Workers Rights

• Worker Strikes

• Collective Bargaining

What was the first nationwide industrial union?

• the Knights of Labor

• the AFL

• the United Auto Workers

• the United Steel Workers

A _______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.

• lockout

• blackballing

• strike

• picket

Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of

• passage of laws that supported workers.

• laws restricting immigration.

• poor working conditions and low wages.

• economic depression that led to high unemployment.

The Homestead Strike was a protest 

• in Colorado demanding safer working conditions. 

• Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.

• against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions.

• against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to eliminate the union.

This type of Union is based on a certain skill or profession.

• Craft Union

• Industrial Union

• Guild Union

• Electrical Union

A pressure tactic by union members and sympathizers who refuse to buy or handle the product of a target company.

• Boycott

• Strike

• Injunction

• blacklisting

A court order that requires one side in a dispute to refrain from or not engage in a particular action.

• writ of certiorari

• Injunction

• writ of mandamus

• Cease and Desist

An employer who must offer higher wages to employees due to a shortage of workers is an example of

• the Skill Level Theory of Wages.

• the Theory of Negotiated Wages.

• the Signaling Theory of Wages.

• The Market Theory of Wages.