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The worker s union of GrainCorp., a grain processing plant, [#permalink]
 17 Aug 2007, 14:04
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The worker’s union of GrainCorp., a grain processing plant, is attempting to obtain a pay raise from GrainCorp. management. To pressure GrainCorp. management into accepting the union’s proposal, the president of the union has proposed a boycott against SquareMart food stores, which are owned by Megafood, the parent company of GrainCorp.
The answer to which of the following questions is LEAST directly relevant to the union president’s consideration of whether a boycott of SquareMart will lead to acceptance of their pay rate proposal?
A.Would the loss of business at SquareMart stores materially affect MegaFood?
B.Are the staple food products purchased by consumers at SquareMart stores readily available at other stores not owned by MegaFood?
C.How many SquareMart are within the region of the GrainCorp plant?
D.Have other unions successfully employed the same strategy?
E.Is MegaFood the only corporation that operates both grain-processing plants and food stores?
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This is E for me. Though C sounds a likely candidate but I feel E is worse
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Re: kaplan premier CR [#permalink]
17 Aug 2007, 15:07
Ravshonbek wrote: The worker’s union of GrainCorp., a grain processing plant, is attempting to obtain a pay raise from GrainCorp. management. To pressure GrainCorp. management into accepting the union’s proposal, the president of the union has proposed a boycott against SquareMart food stores, which are owned by Megafood, the parent company of GrainCorp.
The answer to which of the following questions is LEAST directly relevant to the union president’s consideration of whether a boycott of SquareMart will lead to acceptance of their pay rate proposal?
A.Would the loss of business at SquareMart stores materially affect MegaFood?
B.Are the staple food products purchased by consumers at SquareMart stores readily available at other stores not owned by MegaFood?
C.How many SquareMart are within the region of the GrainCorp plant?
D.Have other unions successfully employed the same strategy?
E.Is MegaFood the only corporation that operates both grain-processing plants and food stores?
I guess C.
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Straight E here guys.
C is totally relevant. Since it is a workers union of a grain processing plant all the members of the union will be located around the plant they work at. If the union is planning a boycott the number of stores around them is definitely a factor. If all the plants are 300 miles away then a boycott of a store nowhere near them will have no effect.
E on the other hand is totally useless. Why does it matter if other corporations run the same sort of operation? They're focused on Grain Corp here.
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I'll go for E. Others clearly affect boycott....
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Straight E
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Re: The worker s union of GrainCorp., a grain processing plant, [#permalink]
01 Nov 2012, 03:08
The OA is E. somebody can help me explain why?
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eschn3am wrote: Straight E here guys.
C is totally relevant. Since it is a workers union of a grain processing plant all the members of the union will be located around the plant they work at. If the union is planning a boycott the number of stores around them is definitely a factor. If all the plants are 300 miles away then a boycott of a store nowhere near them will have no effect.
E on the other hand is totally useless. Why does it matter if other corporations run the same sort of operation? They're focused on Grain Corp here. I am a bit confused with B, it talks about consumers of the stores how are they in any case relevant to the workers union boycotting the swauremart stores. Is B not irrelevant as it talks about a diff set of people than workers union.
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deepri0812 wrote: eschn3am wrote: Straight E here guys.
C is totally relevant. Since it is a workers union of a grain processing plant all the members of the union will be located around the plant they work at. If the union is planning a boycott the number of stores around them is definitely a factor. If all the plants are 300 miles away then a boycott of a store nowhere near them will have no effect.
E on the other hand is totally useless. Why does it matter if other corporations run the same sort of operation? They're focused on Grain Corp here. I am a bit confused with B, it talks about consumers of the stores how are they in any case relevant to the workers union boycotting the swauremart stores. Is B not irrelevant as it talks about a diff set of people than workers union. B.Are the staple food products purchased by consumers at SquareMart stores readily available at other stores not owned by MegaFood? Well, B is relevant indeed because knowing that, we can assume whether boycotting the stores where the staple foods are available will affect directly MegaFood because, lets say if these products are not available anywhere else apart at stores owned by MegaFood, then Yes it will affect directly MegaFood and the plan will probably succeed but if NOT, then the plan will not succeed because it will affect just a part of stores owned by MegaFood and another part, which is not concerned by the plan; Hence B is relevant ..
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