krittapat wrote:
GMATNinja egmat VeritasKarishma MartyTargetTestPrep mikemcgarryCould you please help explain question 4?
I wonder why choice E is incorrect.
So question 4 is one of those annoying 'except' questions:
"According to the passage, in the period prior to 1975, each of the following considerations helped determine whether a union would attempt to organize a certain group of clerical workers EXCEPT"
Take a second and specify to yourself, in your own words, what that question is asking. What do we need the answer to *accomplish?* What will the wrong answers *be?*
So the question makes clear there are going to several things that caused a union to try organize a group of clerical workers. The wrong answers are going to be those reasons. The right is NOT going to one of those listed reasons. So we need to go to the passage and find:
"What things caused unions to try to organize clerical workers before 1975?"
Try to answer yourself: where can this be found in the passage?
It will be the first paragraph. Those reasons are here:
Prior to 1975, union efforts to organize public-sector clerical workers, most of whom are women, were somewhat limited. The factors
favoring unionization drives seem to have been either
the presence of large numbers of workers, as in New York City, to make it worth the effort, or
the concentration of small numbers in one or two locations, such as a hospital, to make it relatively easy.
Receptivity to unionization on the workers’ part was also a consideration, but when there were large numbers involved or
the clerical workers were the only unorganized group in a jurisdiction, the multi-occupational unions would often try to organize them regardless of the workers’ initial receptivity. The strategic reasoning was based, first, on the concern that politicians and administrators might play off unionized against non-unionized workers, and, second, on the conviction that a fully unionized public work force meant power, both at the bargaining table and in the legislature. In localities where clerical workers were few in number, were scattered in several workplaces, and expressed no interest in being organized, unions more often than not ignored them in the pre-1975 period.
Now, on your own, eliminate answer choices that match those, and choose the one that ISN'T one of those. Specify which SENTENCE in the passage matches which ANSWER to justify eliminating it.
(A) the number of clerical workers in that group
(B) the number of women among the clerical workers in that group
(C) whether the clerical workers in that area were concentrated in one workplace or scattered over several workplaces
(D) the degree to which the clerical workers in that group were interested in unionization
(E) whether all the other workers in the same jurisdiction as that group of clerical workers were unionized
Matching colors:
(A) the number of clerical workers in that group(B) the number of women among the clerical workers in that group
(C) whether the clerical workers in that area were concentrated in one workplace or scattered over several workplaces(D) the degree to which the clerical workers in that group were interested in unionization(E) whether all the other workers in the same jurisdiction as that group of clerical workers were unionizedB is not a consideration. We're told that many clerical workers were women--but the number of women is not described as something relevant to unions attempts to organize.
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