1. When a public-sector union makes a direct appeal to a legislative body or government official who has the final decision-making authority instead of the designated management negotiator before, during, or after negotiations, it’s called:
Direct bargaining.
End-run bargaining.
Multilateral bargaining.
Streamlined bargaining.
2. Which of the following is not a current and/or future challenge faced by public-sector unions?
Resisting the privatization of public services.
Unionizing the unrepresented professionals who make up roughly one-third of government jobs.
Moving beyond the traditional adversarial approaches.
Dealing with the abundance of ambitious leaders competing for top union jobs.
3. The following is NOT a primary factor that has the potential to produce pressures on public-sector labor relations:
Public attitudes toward public-sector unions and collective bargaining.
There are no signs of significant declines in revenue available to governments.
Public attitudes toward public-sector unions and public-sector collective bargaining if pension liabilities and public-sector collective bargaining are linked.
Privatizing of public services.
4. The independent, neutral agency that administers the federal labor relations program and investigates unfair labor practices is the:
Federal Labor Relations Authority.
Federal Service Impasse Panel (FSIP).
Merit System Protection Board (MSPB).
Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA).