Action T4

Collective bargaining consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedures is a collective agreement. Employees are often represented in bargaining by a union or other labor organization. Collective bargaining is governed by federal and state statutory laws, administrative agency regulations, and judicial decisions. In areas where federal and state law overlap, state laws are…

Ideally, labor is the change of human activities and skills into measurable financial inputs. Besides, laborers are Canadians who are engaged in any form of an employment relationship. In most instances, laborers do not have the required authority. Instead, they delegate most of their powers to other institutions including labor unions. Besides, labor unions have the duty to represent needs and interests of its members to the relevant institutions. Labor unions also represent their members in…

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system for most living things. There are only a few animals that do not have a brain like starfish or jellyfish. The brain is located in the head. It receives messages from other organs. The brain is the most complex organ. In a human, the cerebral cortex has more than a billion neurons. Each of these neurons are connected by synapses. These synapses are connected to several thousand other neurons. Neurons communicate with one…

Government CBA 5/6/16 Fisher v. University of Texas-Austin Fisher v. University of Texas, (2013), is a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the affirmative action admittance policy of the University of Texas-Austin. The Supreme Court overruled the lower appellate court's ruling that favored the University and protracted the case, holding that the lower court had not applied the standard of strict scrutiny, articulated in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Regents of the University…

Philosopher Pojman argues against strong affirmative action, Philosopher Hettinger argues that affirmative action is justified even though the fact that such policies differentiate against young white males and Philosopher Steal shows a study of race relations in the United States. In this paper I will discuss why I side with Philosopher Pojman’s argument against strong affirmative action, you choose the path you go down and have an option to be different than others, you have opportunities and…

Tamara, Prior to this unit I was not familiar with the legalities with genetic testing nor had I heard of any incidence within my organization. I agree with your discussion post, the manager likely was violating the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), “Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits genetic information discrimination in employment, took effect…

Figure 1. An EMG Tracing of Triceps and Biceps Muscles Co-activation. EMG signal produces an electrical activity of the muscle fibers active at a moment time. The electrical activity is measured in millivolts per milliseconds. The top channel shows the bicep EMG, while the bottom EMG correlates to the triceps contraction traces. Shown on the top graph, there are two periods of bicep activation, each last approximately 1.5ms. When the biceps are activated, it produces increasing amplitude peaks,…

In the late nineteenth century, Chicago underwent a dramatic transformation that shaped the fundamental foundation of the windy city into a cultural environment devoted to work and moneymaking. This change inevitably gave way to both the type of industries that dominated and the organization of work itself. The metamorphose of large-scale corporate manufacturing and trade provoked battles over the character and control of work that spilled into broader political fights for the rights of workers.…

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) code of ethics was accepted on October 13, 1960. In the last 55 years, it has developed as the standard for defining the values and principles that guide our conduct in all social work areas. There have been seven modifications that have been made to the NASW code of ethics. The modifications took place in the years 1967, 1979, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, and 2008. The first revision that took place was in 1967. It was done to include…

The affirmative action plan according to Pilon v. SVSU & Thompson (2003), “Reduce the barriers that inhibit success by minorities.” The plan also states that the university must “undertake extraordinary efforts in the years ahead to serve students from diverse, racial and…