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| Question | Answer |
| Enforcement Agency for Civil Righst | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) AND/OR Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) |
| Enforcement Agency of Executive orders | Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) |
| Enforcement Agency of Mass layoffs | Department of Labor |
| Enforcement Agency of Polygraph | Department of Labor |
| Enforcement Agency of Privacy | Department of Justice |
| Enforcement agency of Veterans’ rights | DOL Veterans Employment and Training Service |
| Enforcement agency of Labor relations | National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) |
| What law requires employers to furnish a workplace that is free from sexual harassment? | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its subsequent amendments |
| When was the Glass Ceiling Act sign into law as an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1991? | 1991 |
| When was the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) enacted? | 1994 |
| Who does the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) protect? | - It protects the rights of reservists called to active duty in the armed forces. - It provides reemployment and benefits rights and is administered through the Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS) of the DOL |
| Which employer is covered under the USERRA? | All public and private employers in the United States, including the federal government |
| What is the first piece of legislation to impact the labor movement ? | the Sherman Antitrust Act, passed in 1890 |
| What did the Sherman Antitrust Act allow? | The act allowed injunctions, court orders that either require or forbid an action by one party against another, to be issued against any person or group that conspired to restrain trade. |
| Which act limited the use of injunctions to break strikes and exempted unions from the Sherman Act? | The Clayton Act |
| What is the Clayton Act about? | It limited the use of injunctions to break strikes and exempted unions from the Sherman Act. |
| Which act was to avoid interruptions due to strikes, protect the rights of employees to join a union, and allow for a “cooling-off” period of up to 90 days if the president deemed a strike to be a national emergency? | the Railway Labor Act |
| Which act was to protect the rights of employees to join a union, and allow for a “cooling-off” period of up to 90 days if the president deemed a strike to be a national emergency? | The Railway Labor Act |
| Which act was to allow for a “cooling-off” period of up to 90 days if the president deemed a strike to be a national emergency? | The Railway Labor Act |
| Which act applies to airlines? | The Railway Labor Act |
| Which act protected the rights of workers to organize and strike without the interference of federal injunctions? | The Norris-La Guardia Act |
| What does The Norris-La Guardia Act protect? | The rights of workers to organize and strike without the interference of federal injunctions. |
| What act was passed in response to employer complaints about union abuses? | The Taft-Hartley Act, or Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA) of 1947 |
| Which act prohibits closed shops and allows union shops only with the consent of a majority of employees? | Yhe Taft-Hartley Act, or Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA), |
| Which act provides that states have the right to outlaw closed and union shops by passing “right to work” laws? | The Taft-Hartley Act or Labor-Management Relations Act |
| Which act prohibited jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts? | The Taft-Hartley Act or Labor-Management Relations Act |
| Which act established Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)? | The LMRA |
| Under the Taft-Hartley Act or the LMRA, what power is granted to the president? | The president is granted the power to obtain an injunction ending a strike or lockout for an 80-day cooling-off period if, in the president’s estimation, the continuation of the strike could “imperil the national health or safety.” |
| Which act grants the president the power to obtain an injunction ending a strike or lockout for an 80-day cooling-off period if, in the president's estimation, the continuation of the strike could "imperil the national health or safety"? | The Taft-Hartley Act or the LMRA, |
| What act placed controls on internal union operations? | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959, aka the Landrum-Griffith Act |
| Which act provided a bill of rights for union members that required equal rights for all members to participate in the union? | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or Landrum-Griffith Act |
| Which act granted freedom of speech and assembly for union members to gather and discuss union issues? | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or the Landrum-Griffith Act |
| Which act restricted increases in dues and assessments to those that were approved by majority vote of the union? | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or the Landrum-Griffith Act |
| Which act gave employees the right to sue the union and provided safeguards against retaliatory disciplinary actions by the union? | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or the Landrum-Griffith Act |
| Which act prohibited “extortionate picketing” by unions and required that union leadership elections be conducted no less often than every 3 years for local unions and every 5 years for national or international officers? | The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or The Landrum Griffith Act |
| Under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) or The Landrum Griffith Act, how often is union leadership elections allowed to be conducted? | No less often than every 3 years for local unions and every 5 years for national or international officers |
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