Exam 14: Labor Relations in Multinational Corporations and in Other Countries

Which of the following is NOT one of the benefits that has been realized from the expansion of free trade and globalization?

Employees of all private firms in Japan are guaranteed lifetime employment.

As a result of NAFTA,real wages have grown rapidly for Mexican workers.

Which of the following is a criticism that organized labor in the United States levels at U.S.MNCs?

Which of the following is false about labor relations in China?

Which of the following is true about labor relations in Great Britain?

American jobs have been lost in major industries,such as the automobile,steel,textile,footwear,and consumer electronics,whereas jobs in the aircraft,computers,entertainment,and finance industries have increased.

Which of the following activities can frequently be found in the labor relations of Germany?

Among those countries listed below,which has a lower percentage of the work force in unions than in the United States?

Given the high costs involved,evidence indicates that it is relatively rare for MNCs to shift production to other countries in order to intimidate local unions.

Which one of the following concepts does NOT exist in Western European labor relations systems?

The majority of Mexican collective bargaining agreements contain a protection clause that protects employers from having to deal with a more demanding union.

Pressure on a MNC by a local union strike may be reduced because MNC operations in other countries continue to generate products and profits.

Unions in Cuba represent a broad array of constituents including current workers,retired pensioners,and even the unemployed.

Highly developed,sophisticated patterns of labor relations,such as those in Germany,have spread rapidly and are now commonplace in Russia and other former states of the U.S.S.R.

All of the following are present obstacles to transnational bargaining with MNCs except:

In Australia,the Workplace Relations Act of 1996 (WRA)introduced individual contracts called Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs)which enhanced ''choice'' by placing individual and collective agreements on an equal footing.

There is no such thing as a "right-to-work law" in Canada.

Which of the following is NOT true about the practices of Japanese MNCs in their operations in the United States?

A number of large MNCs are so enormous that their sales are frequently larger than the entire economy of the countries in which they conduct business.