A double-breasted strategy is where a firm A. has many non-union plants. B. oper

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A double-breasted strategy is where a firm A. has many non-union plants. B. operates only union plants but tries to undermine the union. C. operates only nonunion plants and refuses to allow any unions to organize the plant. D. operates separate union and nonunion divisions. E. none of the above. Which of the following is a trend in management policies toward unionization? A. In a vast majority of nonunion firms, avoiding unions is no longer considered a top priority. B. Highly organized firms are always strongly opposed to unionization of new plants. C. Firms have been unwilling to allow unions to organize their white-collar workers. D. Firms that have only been partially organized are more willing to allow unionization in new plants than firms that are fully organized.

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D)operates separate union and nonunion divisions.

The terms "double breasted" or "dual shop" constractor refers two construction firms often sharing common ownership one of which is a signatry to a collective bargain agreement (the union firm) and the ther that is not (the open shop firm).

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C)Firms have been unwilling to allow unions to organize their white-collar workers.

Many people think that collective bargaining primarily suits male, blue-collar production workers in goods-producing industries and is of little interest to female, white-coller knowledge workers in the service industries ---
The prototype of the post-industrial labor force. However , the currect scholarly consensus, based on a growing body of empirical research, finds this benign explanation for the decline of unionism to be far from the whole story. Any such demographic account is belied by the fact that in the last thirty years American scholteachers-- the quintessential female, white-coller knowledge workers in the service sector-- have became the most highly unionized occupation in the country.

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