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As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. What is the ally doctrine?

The correct answer is C. A union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employers who are allies of the. The ally doctrine in labor law permits a union to extend its picketing activities beyond the primary employer to include neutral employers who have become allies of the struck employer.

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Question

As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. What is the ally doctrine?

Options

  • AA union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employees who are allies of the
  • BEmployers cannot force friends, colleagues, and family members into joining a union picket. Allies
  • CA union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employers who are allies of the
  • DA union may serve as an ally to another striking union by allowing their members to join the picket

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    15% (5)
  • C
    74% (25)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

The ally doctrine in labor law permits a union to extend its picketing activities beyond the primary employer to include neutral employers who have become allies of the struck employer.

AA union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employees who are allies of the

The doctrine applies to neutral employers, not individual employees; unions do not gain the right to picket individual employees of unrelated companies under this doctrine.

BEmployers cannot force friends, colleagues, and family members into joining a union picket. Allies

This describes a coercion protection concept unrelated to the ally doctrine, which specifically concerns the legal expansion of picketing scope to associated businesses.

CA union may expand upon its primary picketing activity to include employers who are allies of theCorrect

The ally doctrine, developed under the National Labor Relations Act, allows a union to expand primary picketing to neutral employers that have become allies of the struck employer - typically by performing struck work or maintaining an integrated business relationship with them. This doctrine is a recognized exception to secondary boycott prohibitions, making the otherwise neutral employer a lawful target of union pressure.

DA union may serve as an ally to another striking union by allowing their members to join the picket

This describes inter-union solidarity or support, not the ally doctrine, which addresses when a union may lawfully picket a neutral third-party employer.

Concept tested: Union ally doctrine and secondary picketing rights

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#ally doctrine#secondary picketing#labor law#union strikes

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