Question: The CLC’s mandate is to advance a broad social agenda to improve the lives of all workers.
Answer: True
Question: Provincial federations of labour are the main bodies pushing labour’s issues on legislation and other policy areas with provincial governments.
Answer: True
Question: National labour bodies are particularly important in Canada because most labour legislation is federal.
Answer: False
Question: Local labour councils provide a critical link between labour and the broader community.
Answer: True
Question: Labour councils participate in many community organizations to promote and advance the economic, social, cultural, and political interests of union members and the wider community.
Answer: True
Question: Internal union democracy has been shown to be an important factor in winning union elections, union renewal and worker perceptions of union power.
Answer: True
Question: Community attitudes toward unions affect a worker’s desire (or lack of desire) to join a union.
Answer: True
Question: Blue-collar workers are more likely to join a union for economic reasons than for noneconomic ones.
Answer: True
Question: Women and minorities were significantly more likely to want unionization than men and non-minorities.
Answer: True
Question: If unions want to keep the allegiance of their members, they must fulfill their primary function of providing distributive justice to their members.
Answer: True
Question: Unionized employees who work for larger companies are more likely to want to leave their unions.
Answer: True
Question: According to the textbook, unions may avoid trying to unionize smaller workplaces because of stronger resistance from management.
Answer: False
Question: Canadian patterns of unionization are very similar to those in the United States, but on a smaller scale.
Answer: False
Question: A barrier element between a gene and heterochromatin would prevent that gene from being transcriptionally silenced by heterochromatin spreading.
Answer Options:
• ⊚ true
• ⊚ false
Answer: true