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...? Workers Strike in Indonesia The recent workers strike in Indonesia was seen to result in massive losses for the employers in the country. The economic impact of the strike was considerably massive in in light of the fact that the country has a fast growing economy that is heavily reliant on robust exports. This paper seeks to establish what was the cause of the strike, what were the reactions of the key stake holders as well as establish the effects of the strike. It also looks at the possible legal implications of the strike as well as highlighting the solutions that were reached by the stakeholders in resolving the crisis. Workers...
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...the alarm bell and implement a militia against the strikers, the city demonstrated a willingness to engage in the oppression of these workers. Rather than so readily implement force, it would have been more effective to resolve the strike in a peaceful way. Reference Cole, Donald, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts 1845-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Kornbluh, Joyce, Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, Charles H. Kerr Publishing, Chicago, 1988 Thompson, Fred. The I.W.W.: Its First Seventy Years. New York: Prentice Hall. 1976. Watson, Bruce, Bread and Roses: Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2005....
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...that are peculiar to the whole, and have boundaries defined by the system observer. Systems do not operate in a vacuum; they comprise of smaller units called subsystems. The subsystems interconnected, transfer knowledge from a system to the next. A system can only operate within its boundaries (Blanchard, Benjamin & Wolter 5). The system observer defines the boundaries, and outside these boundaries lies the environment (Blanchard, Benjamin, and Wolter 5). The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is a growth and acquisition plan intended to restore a wide array of existing strike, fighter and land attacks for the United States and her allies. The main competitors for the program were Lockheed Martin X-35...
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...News Review (Foster's Beer Strike Brewing) In the recent past, Australian media was abuzz by the news related with the industrial dispute at Fosters'. The simmering discontent amongst workers acquired serious proportions when last week the Foster's employees voted in favour of strike action against their employer (LaborNet, 2007). This appears a clear indication on the part of workers towards stepping up of their fight to win a union collective agreement. While on the one hand the Unions appear all set for the industrial action, presenting a united face with the claims that up to 200 employees are supporting the action, the company on the other hand has started picking holes in the unions' claims....
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..., that these primary sources are based on firsthand experience of the events that took place (the workers strike at a textile mill in Lawrence). Second, each source is admittedly and unavoidably biased, but knowing in which way the source is biased is helpful for our analysis. Third, the accounts of the events that took place were full of details that enhanced their credibility as sources. And fourth, all sources were reliable, though in varying degrees, because they were written at a time close to the events that took place or by an eyewitness. We now tackle the questions one by one.
First is the question of credibility. Which of the three accounts do I find most credible ...
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...NY transit strike Why were union members unhappy with their prior contact from 2002? The union members had three unfulfilled demands from the 2002 contract. These demands were in the areas of: retirement, pension and wage all of which were to be increased by a certain percentage but that did not happen. In the wage and salary increase for example, the agreed terms were for the workers to have a 6% increase every year since 2002. The paid increase was 3%, 4% and 3.5% for the three years consecutively which was way lower than the agreement in the contract (Books Llc, 35).
What was the status of the MTA budget in 2005?
According to MTA, they had a surplus of $ 1 billion in that year. The truth however was that the company...
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...The Cripple Creek Strike of 1894. The Cripple Creek Miner’s Strike of 1894 was a five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. The Cripple Creek District is located in the Rocky Mountains and is about 85 miles southwest of Denver. With the discovery of gold in 1890, Cripple Creek became a booming mining camp, with 40 mines in development. At this stage, conflict erupted between the miners and the mine owners. An understanding of the Cripple Creek Strike requires the analysis of its causes, the developments and its notable differences.
The causes of the Cripple Creek Strike were largely economic. America was in...
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...Essay, English Topic: San Francisco Bart strike Introduction:
Unity! Sometimes what sins are committed in the name of unity! Workers unity and the right to strike have been the ancient weapons of resistance by the trade unions. The demand that public employees should not be allowed to strike is to deny them the fundamental rights. There cannot be a blanket ban on all strikes. The causes for the strike need to be analyzed and stern actions are called for when the strike is on flimsy grounds. With this viewpoint, whether the prevailing labor practices in relation to San Francisco Bart Strike are justified?...
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...Fast Food strike article analysis on minimum wage and unemployment Lecturer: Fast-food strike made minimum sense article
Economic statements in the article
Megan McArdle claims that Fast food workers struck agitating for hike of wages to $ 15 dollars an hour. The article identifies the different perspectives about the issue since some asserted that minimum wages lead to disemployment thus McDonalds cannot raise the wages. The author witnessed grave enthusiastic overstatement and accounting errors.
According to the article, small minimum wage hikes do not produce immediate or large decline in employment especially if the minimum wage is raised by 50 cents. The author also clarifies that companies have...
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...Summary The key aim of this experiment is development of a prediction for the statapult (catapult) to strike a specific set of target distances. In addition, this lab is to discover the angle as well as the distance the ball will cover with that angle both experimentally and theoretically. Afterwards, 6 trials of that best possible angle are done and checking done to see whether we are getting similar distances as those we obtained theoretically. The results gotten indicate nearly similar distances as those obtained from equation which is 160cm.Furthermore,we have to determine the 95 percent CI from Minitab which is (151.99,168.01)cm ,whereas the anticipated confidence level is in the range of 95 percent...
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