Select the correct answer. George works in a factory and is a member of the labor union. He thinks his wages are low for the work that he does, so he tells the union representative that his employer should increase his wages. The representative asks the other workers if they feel the same, and they all agree. The following week, the union representative met with the factory owner regarding an increase in wages, and the employer agreed to it. What strategy did the union use to get the owner to agree to increase wages?

A.
individual bargaining
B.
threaten to go on a strike
C.
collective bargaining
D.
threaten to quit their jobs
E.
filing a petition to the government

Among the options given on the question the correct answer is option C.

Collective bargaining.

Explanation: On the passage there is description of the demand of a worker to raise the wage. George thought that he need a rise in his salary. So he talked to the workers union representatives about increasing the salary. The union representative asks the other workers to know their consent. Here, George did not go to the employer by himself. he went through the union. Another point is that, the union representative also heard about the consent or feeling of the other workers.

After all of them being agreed, the union representative met the owner of the factory and asked the owner to increase the wage. The owner also agreed to the union representative. Because it was the demand of all of the workers. Therefore, it was a collective bargain for the union representative to the factory owner.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)