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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).