Featherbedding Refers to

question 5

Multiple Choice

Featherbedding refers to

• A) negotiating better fringe benefits than nonunion workers.
• B) one union using a previously negotiated contract as a starting point for its own negotiations.
• C) firing high-wage workers when the union goes on strike.
• D) the union requiring the firm to hire more workers than are actually needed to perform a particular task.
• E) the union using its members' dues to fund political activities.

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Definitions:

Keystone Species

A keystone species is an organism that plays a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, influencing the types and numbers of other species.

Conserving

The act of preserving or protecting something from loss or damage.

Individualistic Model

A theory in ecology that suggests communities are a chance assemblage of species with similar abiotic requirements, rather than a tightly integrated unit.

Henry Gleason

An early 20th-century ecologist known for his individualistic concept of plant communities, challenging the notion of plant communities as superorganisms.