Deck 11: Social Equity

Question 1

The AFL-CIO is an organization that

A) engages in collective bargaining.
B) is a federation of unions.
C) is an example of a laissez-faire system.
D) is also known as the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The first statute that set forth the basic private sector model of labor relations was the

A) Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
B) Wagner Act of 1935.
C) Pendleton Act of 1883.
D) Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A key initiative of the 1993 National Review (the Gore Report) was to reform the public personnel system.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike:

A) Was an illegal strike.
B) Made stress and burnout major collective bargaining issues
C) the first decertification of a public employee union.
D) All of the above.

Question 5

Today organized labor seeks to achieve many of its goals through political means, such as lobbying, and electioneering rather than through striking.

Question 6

Giving special preference to honorably discharged military personnel is known as

A) a partisan patronage system.
B) the spoils system.
C) veterans' preference.
D) None of the above.

Question 7

Jason Smith is the Director of the Department of snow removal in the city of Carlisle. He wants to hire his nephew as an accountant in the department and has bypassed the civil service examination. Another contender for the position, claims that Mr. Smith is maintaining an illegal ____________ in the Snow Removal Department.

A) BFOQ system.
B) spoils and patronage system.
C) A and b
D) None of the above.

Question 8

The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972

A) extended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to public employees.
B) extended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to farm workers on privately-owned farms.
C) extended Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964 to private employees.
D) All of the above.

Question 9

Privatization in government is about contracting public sector jobs and personnel to the private sector.

Question 10

The administrative agency set up to administer the provisions of the Wagner Act of 1935 is called the National Performance Review.

Question 11

You have just joined a public employee union. Your colleague who is not a union member tells you that Collective bargaining refers to negotiations by labor unions on behalf of individuals in organizations, groups in organizations, vendors, suppliers and outside contractors. Is she correct in her assumption?

A) Yes.
B) No
C) Individuals and Groups in Organizations but not Vendors and Contractors
D) Individuals only.

Question 12

Public sector competitive outsourcing includes:

A) hiring non-government workers to perform government functions
B) was heavily used by the Bush administration in the Iraq War
C) always being economically efficient and effective
D) a and b

Question 13

Chauncy Jones is a gardener at the San Bernardino Valley High School. The gardening department and custodial department are asked to take a skills test that measures English grammar and composition, and mathematics ability. Chauncey claims the test is flawed:

A) Because it overturns affirmative action.
B) Because it is an invalid test in relation to work required.
C) A and b
D) None of the above.

Question 14

A strike is an act by management to lock out employees and hence bring work to a temporary stoppage.

Question 15

The public sector response to Hurricane Katrina

A) was widely criticized
B) destroyed the career of Federal Emergency Director Brown
C) was damaging to President Bush
D) a, b and c

Question 16

The "patronage book" which is a plum-covered manual that lists high-level civil service jobs that employees can attain by merit, is now available in both hard copy and electronically.

Question 17

"An Act to Regulate and Improve the Civil Service," better known as the Pendleton Act of 1883, created the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Question 18

The National Labor Relations Board

A) Was set up in 1935
B) Deals with labor relations between employees & employers
C) The NLRB model has been adapted to the public sector by the federal government and several states
D) All of the above

Question 19

Civil service reform traces its beginnings to the

A) Civil Rights Act of 1964.
B) Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.
C) Pendleton Act of 1883.
D) Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

Question 20

The agencies that protect Merit systems, and Federal Labor Relations came into being with the passage of:

A) The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
B) The Griggs decision
C) The Civil Rights Act of 1964
D) All of the above.

Question 21

Appellate courts are those that consider appeals concerning lower courts' actions.

Question 22

In Rutan v. Republican Party, The US Supreme Court ruled that traditional patronage in public administration is unconstitutional.

Question 23

The Griggs v. Duke Power Company decision of 1971 upheld the primacy of examination practicality.