Zitrik Corporation manufactured 90,000 buckets during February. The variable overhead cost-allocation base is $5.05 per machine-hour. The following variable overhead data pertain to February:

Actual Budgeted
Production 90,000 units 90,000 units
Machine-hours 9,800 hours 9,000 hours
Variable Overhead Cost per Machine-hour $5.15 $5.05

What is the variable overhead spending variance?

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a.in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b.if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.