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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CAN DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE? The answer is simply yes since strike is a legitimate action to frown on unfavorable conditions. Strike action is legal and any institution that has legal rights can embark on strike when it deems fit by the abiding conditions. If doctors qualify under this democratic legitimacy‚ then under which conditions should doctors be on strike? * WHY DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE? From our history as Ghanaians‚ we have seen doctors going on strike for salary increment. These
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Great Bombay Textile Strike The Great Bombay Textile Strike was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Bombay (currently Mumbai) under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain bonus and wage increases. Nearly 250‚000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Bombay.[1] History of Mills in Bombay | | Built in 1887‚ Swadeshi was Bombay’s first textile mill‚ the first of the factories that spread over Girangaon‚
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Government Employees and Right to Strike – right to strike – At present‚ in the absence of any legislation in government employees the right to strike‚ recognizing their right to do so‚ or regulating the exercise of such right‚ they are prohibited from striking by express prohibition of MC No. 6 and as implied in EO 180. The 1987 Constitution‚ in the Article on Social Justice and Human Rights‚ provides that the State "shall guarantee the rights of all workers to self-organization‚ collective
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I chose to write about the "Reach for a LUCKY instead of a sweet" ad created by Lucky Strike cigarettes and how they appealed to the average American woman of the 1920 ’s. We ’ll be going over what the average American woman of the 20 ’s was as well as why they were so fascinated with smoking cigarettes. Didn ’t they know that cigarettes cause cancer? Didn ’t they know that they could die‚ and leave their loved ones behind because of cancer? Did they truly believe that cigarettes were the miracle
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Furthermore‚ the growth of unions increased by about 20 percent from 1933 to 1945 because there were new and different strategies such as sit-down strikes for workers driven by their need for respect. Instead of using the standard strike of standing outside and chanting‚ workers had come up with different forms of techniques that caught the attention of people‚ not in unions. The success of these new strategies is very helpful in creating new and improved unions. For instance‚ craft unions who had
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