11.The Taft-Hartley Act allows states to pass laws that prevent contract clauses that require employees to join unions.
12.The Taft-Hartley Act regulated the internal affairs of unions and provided for a bill of rights for union members.
13.The two most important reasons why workers join unions are job dissatisfaction and union instrumentality.
14.Under current NLRB rules, at least 50 percent of eligible workers must sign authorization cards to trigger NLRB involvement in the union certification process.
15.With respect to determination of an appropriate bargaining unit, NLRB rules prohibit plant guards from being included in bargaining units with nonguards.
16.Employers are not required to provide union organizers with the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of their employees at any time during the election process.
17.If the NLRB finds that an employer engaged in gross misconduct during a union organizing campaign, it can order an employer to bargain with a union even if the employer won the election.
18.Pattern bargaining occurs when an agreement negotiated with one company in an industry becomes a prototype for bargaining with other competitors in the industry.
19.If an employer refuses to bargain over technological changes in the production process, it is considered an unfair labor practice.
20.Union grievance systems have little influence on how workers vote in union certification elections.