7. The public-sector employee group most likely to participate in strikes is: a. garbage collectors. b. police. c. educators. d. public utility workers. e. mass transit workers.
8. Which of the following is true about privatization? a. Where employees lacked collective bargaining rights in the public sector, privatization of their jobs has provided many of them with the opportunity to be represented by a union in the private sector. b. Privatization of public-sector jobs was begun in the 1980s under the Reagan administration. c. The Bush administration has proposed privatizing up to half of all federal public-sector jobs. d. Public-sector jobs are more likely to be privatized when the public sector union-management relationship is adversarial. e. All of these are true.
9. Which of the following is NOT considered an unfair labor practice under the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA)? a. Refusing to negotiate over a “permissible� bargaining subject b. Restraining and coercing employees in the exercise of their rights c. Encouraging or discouraging union membership d. Controlling or assisting a labor organization e. Refusing to negotiate with a designated labor organization
10. The designation granted to a labor union by the federal government that indicates that the union has been selected by secret ballot of employees to be the exclusive representative of a group of employees is called: a. multilateral bargaining. b. exclusive recognition. c. amalgamation. d. national consultation. e. empowered representation.
11. Each of the following subjects is permissible in federal-sector negotiations except: a. types and grades of positions assigned to any organizational unit.