01-03-2021, 12:05 AM
Whoo Hoo! I just passed the BUS 405: Labor Relations challenge exam. I do have to say that I have been a local union president for 8 years and have negotiated three collective bargaining agreements, so I am probably not a good person to assess the difficulty of this exam. The exam was composed of 50 multiple choice questions and the time was, I think 150 minutes. So time pressure was not an issue at all.
Just going back through my study notes, there were questions about the product market, declining union density, the AFL-CIO, employment at will/common law, the Haymarket Riot/8 Hour Day, the Wagner Act, the Clayton Act, the LMRA, the NLRA/NLRB, federal/state jurisdiction in terms of contract law, preemption doctrine, Norris-LaGuardia Act, the AFL-CIO executive council vs convention, closed-shop vs open-shop, business strategies to avoid/suppress unions, obstacles to international union strategies vs. multinational corporations (MNC's), the four stages of grievance processing, the magnifier effect of wage increases, mandatory bargaining subjects, distributive bargaining, interest based bargaining, mutual gain bargaining, cost of living formulas in wage negotiation, premium pay, wage reopeners, arbitration vs mediation, strike procedures, fact finding, administrative investigations, power relationships.
I felt that probably 20 of the questions could be answered by simple reasoning within the question and the rest required actual knowledge of the subject matter. A pass is 70%, so that is 35 correct out of 50. I scheduled the exam this morning, pulled up some practice sets this morning and read them at odd times during the day.
Good to get the first pass out of the way. My first failure on the contemporary international issues exam had me a bit concerned.
Just going back through my study notes, there were questions about the product market, declining union density, the AFL-CIO, employment at will/common law, the Haymarket Riot/8 Hour Day, the Wagner Act, the Clayton Act, the LMRA, the NLRA/NLRB, federal/state jurisdiction in terms of contract law, preemption doctrine, Norris-LaGuardia Act, the AFL-CIO executive council vs convention, closed-shop vs open-shop, business strategies to avoid/suppress unions, obstacles to international union strategies vs. multinational corporations (MNC's), the four stages of grievance processing, the magnifier effect of wage increases, mandatory bargaining subjects, distributive bargaining, interest based bargaining, mutual gain bargaining, cost of living formulas in wage negotiation, premium pay, wage reopeners, arbitration vs mediation, strike procedures, fact finding, administrative investigations, power relationships.
I felt that probably 20 of the questions could be answered by simple reasoning within the question and the rest required actual knowledge of the subject matter. A pass is 70%, so that is 35 correct out of 50. I scheduled the exam this morning, pulled up some practice sets this morning and read them at odd times during the day.
Good to get the first pass out of the way. My first failure on the contemporary international issues exam had me a bit concerned.
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