1. The Sherman Act is a landmark federal statute:
A: That refuses to enforce the "yellow-dog", anti-unionemployment contract.
B: Fixing wage, hour and working conditions for most federalsupply contracts in excess of $10,000.
C: On competition law passed by Congress in 1890. It prohibitscertain business activities that reduce competition in themarketplace, and requires the United States federal government toinvestigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizationssuspected of being in violation.
D: Prohibiting featherbedding of the stand-by or make work typesin the radio industry.
2. In Lyng v. International Union, UnitedAutomobile Workers, the Supreme Court upheld provisionscontained in the federal Food Stamp Act that bar strikers and theirfamilies from participating in the food stamp program. It foundthis provision permissible for all of the following reasonsexcept:
A: It contains an exception for strikes caused by the failure orrefusal of an employer to conform to the provisions of an agreementor contract between employer and employee, or a law pertaining tohours, wages or other conditions of work.
B: It cuts federal expenditures.
C: It limits the use of limited food-stamp funds for those mostin need.
D: It avoids providing "one-sided support" in labor strikes.
3. A "double-breasted" company:
A: May or may not constitute a single bargaining unit using theusual "community of interest" test.
B: Is one which is regulated by the Interstate CommerceCommission in as much it regulates the hours of service ofinterstate passenger and freight motor vehicle operators.
C: Is one which has a clear separation between a disestablishedcompany-dominated union its "successor" which is required by theNational Labor Relations Board.
D: Is one in which there is an indicia of interrelatedoperations, common management, common ownership, and centralizedcontrol of labor relations.
4. Garmon preemption is a labor law doctrine. This doctrineforbids or prohibits state and local regulation of activities thatare actually or arguably protected by the:
A: Supremacy Clause in the second paragraph of Article VI of theConstitution.
B: Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
C: Secondary boycott provisions contained in Section 303 of theAct.
D: National Labor Relations Act’s rules relating to the right ofemployees to organize and bargain collectively; or prohibited byprovisions of the National Labor relations Act that govern unfairlabor practices.
