Is labor losing its voice?

• Position: QUIZ 2 > NATIONAL

1. Today, unions represent only 12.5 percent of the nation's workforce; 50 years ago, they represented about

   a 35 percent.

   b 50 percent.

   c 60 percent.

   d 70 percent.

2. A hundred years ago, employers saw unions as the enemy because unions can

   a force them to negotiate with workers.

   b have input in business strategies.

   c push up wages.

   d dictate who could be hired.

3. The National Labor Relations Act, creating a right to form unions, was signed by

   a Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

   b Attorney Genera[ Francis Biddle.

   c Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

   d President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4. Briefly explain why organized Labor's reputation suffered in the 1950s.--

5. The Largest tabor union in the United States today is the

   a United Auto Workers

   b United Mine Workers

   c National Education Association

   d Airline Pilots Association

6. Explain why you agree or disagree with Wal-Mart's tactics at the Colorado garage site that Josh Nobel tried to organize.--

7. How does the global economy threaten some American jobs?--

   IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS

1. Federal employees who belong to unions are forbidden by taw to strike. Explain why you think that this law is or isn't justified.

2. A federal Law that went into effect in 1989 requires companies with 100 or more workers to give 60 day's notice of the closing of a plant to the workers and their unions. Explain why you agree or disagree that this taw infringes on management rights.

   ANSWER KEY

   QUIZ 2 > PAGE TE 5

1. (a) 35 percent.

2. (c) push up wages.

3. (d) President...