Employment Laws and Labor Rights

What is the best description of a labor union?

• A group of employees in a certain trade or industry that organize to improve their salary, benefits, and working conditions.

• A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Employees very little power to bargain for fair wages and workplace conditions unless they....

• banded together

• waited for management to offer raises
• relied on government intervention
• worked individually without support

What does it mean to "go on strike?"

• To take a vacation from work.
• To receive a promotion at work.
• To work overtime without pay.
• To refuse to work, often as a form of protest or to demand changes.

Why was Labor Day created?

• To promote consumerism.

• To honor military veterans.

• Labor Day was created to increase corporate profits.
• In memory of those who fought for or lost theirs lives fighting for fair labor

What is the purpose of the National Relations Labor Act?

• To limit the rights of employees to form unions.
• To regulate the wages of employees in the private sector.
• To protect the rights of employees to organize and engage in collective bargaining.