Labor Quiz: Union Workers and Productivity
Monday, February 3, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
This Week's Quiz: Research shows that the productivity of workers goes up when they are unionized. In the manufacturing sector, productivity is how much higher when the employees have unions? Between 3 and 7 percent; Between 8 and 13 percent; Between 14 and 18 percent; Between 19 and 24 percent; Between 25 and 29 percent. Click here and you could be next week's winner of a labor music CD!
Previous
Quiz: In the view of author Jack London, a
scab—an employee who reports to work, or an outsider who accepts employment,
even though the workers are on strike—is: A two-legged animal with a
corkscrew
soul; What was left over after God created the rattlesnake, toad and vampire;
Worse than Judas, who at least had enough character to hang himself; A water
brain; A traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class; All of the
above. Answer: All of the above. Congrats to Tom Breslin,
Professional Employees Union, Canton, Mass., this week's quiz (and labor music
CD) winner!