Questão 6439

• Banca: ESAF
• Órgão: MTE
• Ano: 2006
• Provas: ESAF - 2006 - MTE - Auditor Fiscal do Trabalho - Prova 1
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Read the text below which is entitled “The global union” in
order to answer questions 25 to 27.

The global union
Source: Newsweek Special Edition
Dec 2005 – Feb 2006 (Adapted)

What would a global union look like? Think more
corporate partnership than class struggle. Today, capital is
global and employers are global. Companies, not countries,
make the rules. To survive, unions need to find their niche.
Global companies are going to need an organization that,
in a sense, will manage their labor and protect workers’
rights. A global union would set standard practices and
codes of conduct – perhaps even minimum wages and
work hours.
My critics in the labor movement cringe when I use
words like “partnership” and “value added”. The reality is
that unions need to add value or corporations will ignore
us. If we want an equitable stake in the company, we need
to define what our goals are. We can’t just demand a raise
in pay without offering an incentive to the company. We’re
already far behind multinational corporations in the global
game. We made the mistake of transferring the industrial
model of unionism of the last country to the 21st. We lost
market share: in 1960, one in four workers was in a union;
now it’s one in 12.

Paragraph 2 of the text allows us to discover that the writer is

• A. a critic of the labor union movement from outside it.
• B. a loner worker seeking a raise in his salary through the union.
• C. a critical member of a global multinational corporation.
• D. a unionist who seeks the best for workers and the company.
• E. a stakeholder in the equity of a large corporation.

Gabarito: D

Comentários

• It is letter d

  a) WRONG, once he uses "we"  - what allows us to understand he's one of them, a critic would say:

  A union can’t just demand a raise in pay without offering an incentive to the company.  / not we can't

  b) WRONG - he's not loner once he r, as he eefers himself as "we" what purposes there's someone else with him.

  c) WRONG he's nota critical for the line explained above, and is not from a multinational (as he explixits on the text) =

  We’re already far behind multinational corporations if he's far behind from a multinational, he does not belong to it

  e) WRONG If we want an equitable stake in the company This passage makes us to understand he as the others searchs for a equitable stake in the company, a stakeholder, as the name says, has already got such position

  d) RIGHT he shows in the first and second paragraph the benefits and values that must be got for both company and employers for their well

   

• Resposta: d
  Paragraph 2 of the text allows us to discover that the writer is a unionist who seeks the best for workers and the company.
  Tradução: O segundo parágrafo do texto nos permite descobrir que o escritor é um sindicalista que busca o melhor para os trabalhadores e a empresa.
  Minha conclusão foi baseada no fato de o autor ter se referido muito à primeira pessoa do plural, no segundo parágrafo. Vejam:
  "The reality is that unions need to add value or corporations will ignore us. If we want an equitable stake in the company, we need to define what our goals are. We can’t just demand a raise in pay without offering an incentive to the company." 
  Tradução: A realidade é que os sindicatos precisam adicionar valor ou as corporações vão nos ignorar. Se queremos uma participação equitativa na empresa, precisamos definir quais são nossos objetivos. Não podemos simplesmente exigir um aumento de salário sem oferecer um incentivo para a empresa.
• Discordo do gabarito . Não existe parte alguma do texto em que se fala que e o autor " procura o melhor para as empresas". Não existe opção correta.

• Com relação ao comentário do 'andre', dois trechos do texto que suportam o gabarito:

   

  "The reality is that unions need to add value or corporations will ignore us."

  "We can’t just demand a raise in pay without offering an incentive to the company."

• d-

  Ha traços de pessoalidade no 2° parágrafo, os quais revelam as empresas ignorarão "eles", uma referência às pessoas que fazem parte do union.