In recent years, unions have found it difficult to win congressional backing of the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as “card check.” What is this bill about?
What will be an ideal response?
This would let workers choose whether to unionize through secret ballot votes or card checks in which workers obtain union recognition as soon as a majority of employees at a workplace sign union cards. Current law permits management to insist on a secret ballot, which often lets companies campaign for a month or more against unionization.
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a. Social equality b. Representative democracy c. Guaranteed civil liberties d. Discrimination protection e. Responsiveness
Which group of Iranian liberals has a history of advocating for democratic reform?
a. radicals b. Muslim clerics c. students d. the faqih
What is the policy of containment? Why did the United States adopt this policy after World War II? How did this policy justify American involvement in the Korean and Vietnam wars? How did it lead to a zero-sum game in international politics?
What will be an ideal response?
Which reform in the early twentieth century and has reduced the power of political parties?
a. party machines b. party nominations c. policy coordination d. critical elections e. primary elections