Exam 12: Public-Sector Issues

Special laws govern labour-management relations in the public sector.

What is the role of government in collective bargaining with public-sector unions in Canada?

Workers in which of the following sectors are represented by Canada's largest unions?

Name three factors that account for the rise of public-sector unions in the 1960s.

Contracting out is a form of privatization.

Collective bargaining in the public sector is not subject to the same application of economic power as found in the private sector. What takes the place of economic power in public-sector bargaining?

Under the designation model, what other dispute resolution policy accompanies the right to strike?

What does the term "public good" mean?

What is a modification of interest arbitration called?

How did Canada try to restore economic balance during a time of debts and deficits?

According to the text, the public sector represents approximately what percent of the total employment in Canada?

CUPE, Canada's current largest union, was created when two large municipal unions merged in the 1960s.

What are Marshall's conditions of elasticity? How do they relate to the power of unions?

Public sector employees are more than four times likelier to be unionized than private-sector employees.

Back-to-work legislation may be appealing as a way to resume public services, and has no long-term consequences for the collective bargaining process.

The political spectrum in the 23 countries that implemented the new public management policies began to narrow to include conservatives only.

Adell, Ponak, and Grant (2001) examine three models of dispute resolution in the public sector in Canada. Explain the three models.

When does the unfettered-strike model work best?

What did the growth of unions in the public sector after 1960 replace?

Final-offer arbitration is a modification of interest arbitration that is designed to reduce the chilling and narcotic effects.