The Wright Line Test illustrates the importance of precedents for guiding legal decision making, and it pertains  to the heart of U.S. labor law. The Wright Line Test addresses: ______________________________.

Explain the reason behind the Progressive’s success in the reform movement. Was the Progressive era a foundation to the type of government we have today? Does the United States still value the same goals that were pushed during the Progressive Era?

Companies who take a union suppression position (a negative stance with regards to unions) might use extreme- and in some cases illegal-tactics such as:

Exclusive representation is the right of a union, chosen by a majority of the employees in a plant, craft, industry, or department of a business, to represent all the employees in the bargaining unit.

There are six (6) primary mechanisms for creating workplace rules (workplace governance). Which mechanism focuses on work rules determined by workers or their representatives? 

A popular framework for thinking about labor relations is to consider a pendulum that can swing from right to left in favor of unions or in favor of management. The Taft-Hartley Act (an amendment to the Wager Act) was passed in order to rebalance the system.  Provide two (2) important facts about the Taft-Hartley Act. 

What was the dominant source of theatrical lighting until the Renaissance period?

Union workers, on average, are more satisfied than non-union workers.

The estimated effects of unions includes the nearly universal presence of formal grievance procedures.

Unemployment increased in the early 1980s, and was accompanied by ______________ _____________ whereby unions agreed to reductions in wages, benefits and work rules.