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KimWrice

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Why are unions in manufacturing sometimes suspicious of top-management sponsored participation programs?
 
  a. Union workers do not want to participate in programs that will make them work harder.
  b. The history of the labor movement and extreme employer resistance has made unions suspicious of management at all times.
  c. Unions are afraid management will make use of workers' participation efforts and then move production overseas.
  d. Unions are not interested in improving the efficiency of production, which is often a goal of participation programs.
  e. Unions generally are not suspicious of top-management sponsored participation programs.

Question 2

Which of these is a reason for the increasing union organization in public institutions?
 
  a. Public institutions are not free to intimidate their workers in the same ways private sector employers fight union organizing.
  b. Public institutions prefer for their workers to be organized so workers' concerns can be addressed efficiently.
  c. Organizing in the public sector does not have an effect on working conditions because elected officials manage the budgets of public institutions.
  d. Workers in public institutions are particularly supportive of the social justice themes of unions and eager to organize.
  e. None of the aboveunion organizing is not increasing in public institutions.



ririgirl15

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a



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