a parade in front of the employers business carrying signs about the dispute.
What is a picket?
100
the greatest period of economic decline and stagnation in the United states history starting with the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
100
The branch of economics that deals with the economy as a whole including employment, gross domestic product, inflation, economic growth, and distribution of income?
What is macroeconomics?
100
This act prohibits wage and salary discrimination for jobs that require equivalent skills and responsibilities
What is Equal Pay Act?
200
an association of skilled workers who perform the same kind of work.
What is craft union?
200
this law had two provisions
1. 80 cooling off period that federal courts could use to delay a strike in the case of a national emergency
2.an anti-union provision which allowed individual states to pass right-to-work laws.
What is the Taft Hartley Act?
200
The first federal legislation to exempt unions from antitrust laws.
What is the Clayton Anti-trust Act?
200
The theory that wages are based on the supply and demand for workers skills.
What is the traditional theory of wages?
200
The invisible barrier that hinders women and minorities from advancement up the corporate ladder
What is glass ceiling?
300
a refusal to let the employees work until management demands were met.
What is a lockout?
300
an organization that started as an organization of craft unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
300
Unions that do not belong to the AFL-CIO such as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
What are independent unions?
300
These jobs have been criticized for offering ages that are too low and hours that are too few for workers to make a decent living.
What is part time?
300
Workers with knowledge-based education and managerial skills.
What is professional laborer?
400
a mass refusal to buy products from targeted employers or companies.
What is a boycott?
400
These are workers that often receive higher wages and greater job security than other workers.
What is seniority?
400
prevented federal courts from issuing rulings against unions engaged in peaceful strikes, picketing, or boycotts.
What is the Norris La Guardia Act of 1932?
400
This labor act established a federal minimum wage.
What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
400
When labor and management ask a third party to collect information about a dispute and present non-binding recommendations
What is fact finding?
500
a union organized supported or run by employers to head off efforts by others to organize workers
What is company union?
500
This leaves neither a surplus nor a shortage in the labor market
What is equilibrium wage rate?
500
this committee was headed by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, its goal was to bring about greater unionization to in industry.
What is the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)?
500
established the right of unions to collective bargaining
What is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
500
Workers who have the skills to operate machines and who require minimum amount of training.