PHR · Question #130
The Taft-Hartley Act, also known as the Labor Management Relations Act, addressed unions and engaged in certain types of secondary boycotts. What is a secondary boycott?
The correct answer is A. It is an effort to convince others to stop doing business with a particular organization that is the. The Taft-Hartley Act prohibited secondary boycotts, which involve pressuring a neutral third party to stop doing business with the employer that is the union's primary target. Choice A correctly describes this concept.
Question
The Taft-Hartley Act, also known as the Labor Management Relations Act, addressed unions and engaged in certain types of secondary boycotts. What is a secondary boycott?
Options
- AIt is an effort to convince others to stop doing business with a particular organization that is the
- BIt is an effort to create more than one boycott on an organization, on two or more revenue streams.
- CIt is two or more boycotts by two or more union-backed organizations against one company.
- DIt is additional boycotts against companies that do business with a company which the union is
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A77% (30)
- B13% (5)
- C8% (3)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
The Taft-Hartley Act prohibited secondary boycotts, which involve pressuring a neutral third party to stop doing business with the employer that is the union's primary target. Choice A correctly describes this concept.
A secondary boycott occurs when a union pressures a neutral or secondary employer - one not directly involved in the labor dispute - to cease doing business with the primary employer the union is targeting. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 made this practice an unfair labor practice because it extends the economic pressure beyond the direct dispute to uninvolved parties.
Targeting multiple revenue streams of one company describes a broadened primary boycott strategy, not the definition of a secondary boycott which requires involvement of a neutral third party.
Multiple unions acting against one company describes coordinated or sympathy action, not a secondary boycott, which is defined by targeting a neutral third party rather than the number of unions involved.
While close in concept, this choice describes targeting companies that do business with the primary target rather than convincing others to stop doing business with the primary target - the distinction in the correct answer is the direction of the pressure on the neutral party.
Concept tested: Taft-Hartley Act secondary boycott definition
Source: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/secondary-boycotts
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