Answer: False
 

23. The Public Service Staff Relations Act had the effect of doubling the total union membership.

 
Answer: True
 

24. Labour Relations in Canada are viewed as being co-operative in nature.

 
Answer: False
 

25. Craft unions historically represented skilled employees only.

 
Answer: True
 

26. The legal environment hinders collaboration between employers and unions because it provides that unions cannot agree to give up the right to strike.

 
Answer: False
 

27. Social unionism refers to a union philosophy that is concerned with improving pay and working conditions as well as broader economic change.

 
Answer: True
 

28. Craft unions were independent local unions made up of various skilled employees

 
Answer: True

29. Yellow Dog Agreements, where an employee signs an employment contract agreeing to not join a union are permitted in Canada.

 
Answer: False
 
30. The Industrial Disputes Act required employers to recognize unions.
 
Answer: False
 
31. One of the provisions of the Wagner Act was that employers had to recognize an employee’s right to join a union in the United States.
 
Answer: True
 
 

Multiple Choice

 

1. Labour relations is defined as the study of:
   1. employment in union and non-union organizations
   2. all aspects of the union-management relationship
   3. the negotiation and administration of collective agreements
   4. methods to improve union-management relations
   5. compensation in unionized workplaces

 
Answer: b
 

2. When a union represents employees:
   1. Individual employees can negotiate terms of employment provided that the terms are better than the terms of the collective agreement.
   2. Employers are obligated to give reasonable notice when terminating employees.
   3. Disputes between the union and the employer are resolved in the courts.
   4. Employee job security is reduced.
   5. A termination of an employee could be overturned by an arbitrator.

 
Answer: e
 

3. Privy Council Order 1003 (PC1003) legislation was modeled after:
   1. the Wagner Act
   2. the Charter of Rights and Freedom
   3. the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act
   4. the Public Service Staff Relations Act
   5. the Employment standards Act

 
Answer: a
 

 

4. Company A is reducing production because of a decrease in demand for its product. When the company reduces the size of its unionized workforce, which of the following is correct:
   1. the union must be given reasonable notice
   2. employees must be given reasonable notice
   3. employees must be given the notice provided for in the collective agreement
   4. younger employees must be laid off first
   5. employees cannot be terminated unless the union consents

 
Answer: c
 

5. Dunlop's model of industrial relations systems contains which of the following as elements:
   1. the distribution of power in society
   2. the context for the system
   3. conflict between employers and employees
   4. workplace democracy
   5. political economy