A Civil Action

Furthermore, it grants them the ability to engage in collective bargaining and other collective actions (like striking or picketing). The act created the aforementioned National Labor Relations Board. Those covered by the Railway Labor Act, public employees, independent contractors, and agricultural employees do not receive coverage by the Wagner Act…

Affirmative action has been a massively debated controversy for the last several years and will continue to be for many more to come. For those who do not quite know or don’t fully understand what Affirmative Action is, it is best described as Policies in which higher level education and organizations make efforts to improve opportunities for underrepresented minorities. It also takes into account race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin. Not only is affirmative…

Al Sharpton, probably the most established contemporary civil rights activist, once said, “How do we make things fair?” This enquiry is important today because things really aren’t fair. Although America has progressed very far when it comes to racism and discrimination, it still has a long way to go. Affirmative action policies are essentially used to combat long term racial failures and promote equality. These policies are aimed to increase the proportion of minorities and women in jobs and…

Affirmative action began as a necessity to help previously disadvantaged minorities gain equality. However, due to the dynamic ideas of equality and what is needed to achieve it, the policy has turned into something that hurts more than it helps in today’s society. There are multiple problems with it, such as reverse racism, not addressing the deeper societal problems, and it is condescending to minorities. Much of this comes from the consequences of birthplace and race; a theme also explored in…

President Kennedy signed ‘Executive Order 10925’ and he announced affirmative action in 1961, “Take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin (Stewart, 2012)”, then President Lyndon Jonson expanded and put the details of affirmative action (“Ten Myths about Affirmative Action”, n.d.) Usually affirmative action can be defined as the hiring policy…

pay a worker less, even if she did not learn about the unfair pay until years after the discrimination began. To make sure that people can effectively challenge unequal pay, the law signed by President Obama shortly after taking office amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 so unfair pay complaints can be filed within one hundred and eighty days of a discriminatory paycheck and that one hundred and eighty days resets after every such paycheck is…

affirmative action needed because of the consequences of racial discrimination in the past or does it continue racial discrimination because it is making it harder for white males to get jobs and into school? In your own words, briefly summarize how one side would answer the topic question: Women and minority advocate groups may answer that in the past they have been discriminated against in the education system and the employment process and after everything they have faced affirmative action…

Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced to the Birmingham jail in 1963 for protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. While in jail, King reflected upon the different types of discrimination that was occurring throughout America and knew that changes needed to be made to promote equal opportunities for all people, regardless of race. While he was falsely confined in jail, he wrote the famous, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and described," Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice…

the others, and still just believe you have been completely fair". Johnson’s quote depicts the potentials of affirmative action such as bringing equality to education and employment. Before affirmative action, Africans, Hispanics, and women were segregated into low wage jobs which sparked outrage. The 1960s Civil Rights movement was a main cause to the birth of affirmative action. The goals of the policy were to provide equal opportunities to minority groups such as women, Hispanics, and other…

government employers should strictly, “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” This executive order was later revised and rephrased by another president. Nonetheless, Affirmative Action is a policy that allows minorities to have opportunities, whether it be in a workplace…