The strike action from millions of public sector workers was triggered after the government announced its plans for pension reforms that include; a £2.8 billion rise in contribution payments by 2014/2015; changing the retirement age to the same as the state pension age; and moving public sector workers from final salary schemes to career average schemes. Public sector unions feel the government are proposing too many changes to the current system in one go‚ and therefore balloted to strike.
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The impact of strike to an organization Article by Rajalakshmi Rahul on June 11‚ 2012 Discuss now (0) Go to comments An organizational strike not only destroys the power of labor at its source while still professing theoretical support for the right to strike‚ but also causes many other losses. Labor on the other hand in demanding freedom to use the organizational strike is seeking an instrument fundamental to its rising power. The right to strike restricted in any way is the right shorn of some
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world‚ a common occurrence has been repeated throughout history. The exploits of the urban worker have led to the workers leaving their stations of work and initiating a strike. In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez helps drive the plot through the action of a strike. Like in the novel‚ these strikes hurt key manufactures and leave the leaders to make a decision. The leaders can either give in to the worker’s demands or take the issue into their own hands. The latter
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The Homestead Strike of 1892 By: Industrial Relations Homestead is located on the Monogahela River eight miles from Pittsburgh. In 1892 the town had a population of about 12‚000 people. In 1880 it had a population of about 600 people. The town evolved around the Carnegie mills. With out the steel mill the town would have little existence. The mill property covered 600 acres of the 600 acres 37 of that is covered with varies buildings. The mills facilities were lighted by electricity which
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destroyed it in support of the workers on strike at the Pullman Company. This was the most violent night of the strikes (Stein‚ 24).Pullman ordered for the railroad cars to be filled with mail. This would force the strikers to allow the railroad to operate because it was against the law to stop the transportation of mail. President Glover Cleveland sent in federal troops to stop the strikes because they were interfering with the transportation of mail. This led to the jailing of Eugene V. Debs because
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Homestead Strike of 1892 The Carnegie Steel Company‚ owned by Andrew Carnegie‚ was highly profitable. In 1892‚ the company’s profits reached four and a half million‚ a new record. Carnegie’s company was the world’s largest manufacturing firm at the time. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers‚ founded in 1876‚ worked to gain better wages and work rules. Previously‚ the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers had been defeated at J. Edgar Thomson works in Braddock‚ in 1889
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The Washington State Three-Strikes Law It is difficult to determine whether the three-strikes law in Washington is an effective form of legislation. In 1993‚ Washington was the first state in the nation to adopt three-strikes legislation which imposed a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for persons convicted for a third specific violent felony. The action was fueled by the highly publicized death of Diane Ballasiotes‚ who was raped and murdered by a convicted rapist who
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Winnipeg General Strike The Winnipeg General strike has been one of the most intensive episodes in Canadian history‚ and it was also an important development in the building of the democratic socialist movement in Canada by laborers in the 20th century. During the 1900’s after World War I and the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917‚ workers were faced with much leadership in factories. They did not have very many rights and the government often allowed owners to treat employees however
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Should Congress outlaw the use of "permanent replacements" During Strikes? Advantages‚ Disadvantages and Alternatives to Public Sector Strikes Charlie Morgan University of Maryland University College Adelphi‚ Maryland Strike replacement occurs when employers hire or use individual to perform the work of employees on strike. In the United States‚ it is not unfair labor practice for employers to replace the striking workers with others in effort to carry on the company’s business. Most other industrialized
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job to begin what became one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history. The initial reaction was overwhelming. Of ninety-six unions in Winnipeg‚ ninety-four of them joined the strike. The only two that did not join were the typographers and the local police. In fact‚ the police had voted heavily in favor of the strike‚ but the Central Strike Committee asked them to stay on the job to maintain order. Non-unionized workers joined the strike as well‚ as everyone from waiters to ushers walked
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