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In the business world of today the CEOs and members of Wall Street seem to keep going up and up and the workers of Main Street seem to be staying the same or going down. The distribution of wealth keeps growing as CEOs are coming home with bigger and bigger paychecks. President Obama gave a speech in December of 2013, which centered on economic mobility to shed light on the debate over wealth distribution. The workers of America struggling to be able to pay the bills, be prepared for retirement…

Mexican Labor Unions: A framework Research on the labor movement in Mexico had shown the political power held by unions, greatly as a result of to the historic alliance among unions and the Mexican State through the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (Middlebrook 1995). At least until new Millennium, when the opposite party –PAN- (National Action Party) won the national election. On one side, official trade unions had an important influence in overall wages and benefit levels through…

“Culture is defined as the way of acting, and the material objects that together form people’s way of life” (Macionis, page 60). Culture makes up who someone is and often categorizes people into groups. For example, some countries have similar cultural advantages where as others can be distinctly different. Costa Rica and the United States culturally are very different because they are in different parts of the world. Traditions, languages, housing, music, wealth and many more aspects are what…

The historic gender wage gap has existed for numerous years and continued to alter the lives of people from all walks of life. The gender wage gap is influenced by discrimination, but other factors also contribute to the gap. All ages are susceptible to exposure to the wage gap. A grandmother, father, and teenage son could all be experiencing the gap in various ways at the same time. Although the gap can be experienced at any age, the gap increases with age (2). Job choice is a contributing…

providing for a family. However, when a single mother is working three part time jobs to provide for her family but still is behind on rent, there is obviously a problem. There is also an extreme wage gap between minimum wage workers and CEOs. “As the AFL-CIO notes, if a minimum-wage worker's pay has grown as fast in the past five years as pay of CEOs of American corporations, it would now be $49,000-$23 an hour." (Roleff,87). In summary, a person cannot get out of poverty with an unrealistic…

Chapter One: Introduction Problem Statement “Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, its an embarrassment.” -2014 State of the Union Address, President Obama The problem in the field of Human Resource Management that will be addressed in the paper is the impact of compensation discrimination between men and women. Throughout history, discrimination has been a constant battle, whether its race, gender,…

Collective Bargaining in Current Nursing As professional healthcare workers, nurses are accountable for providing care to a diverse culture of patients that come in with an array of medical problems. That care is essentially guided by the trust and rapport with the patients. Nurses are also entrusted to be patient advocates, however, who advocates for the nurse? Simply, the nurses themselves are able to do so through collective bargaining. In the earlier decades, nurses didn’t have much power…

Unions exist in almost every industry from manufacturing and construction to banking and government. Their objective is to represent workers by acting as a bridge between management and employees. Among other important issues, unions facilitate negotiations for increased wages, benefits, and improved working conditions. While a union’s historical purpose is to offer redress for employer violations of employees’ civil liberties and moral rights the tactics that unions have taken in doing so also…

COMS 100B – Examination One Lianne Woo Question One: Goals, Themes, and Requested Actions: Although salad may be seen as a healthy alternative, Tamar Haspel’s aim in “Why salad is overrated” is to report that lettuce is more harmful than beneficial, in ways that are unhealthy and wasteful. Haspel informs the audience that the resources needed to process the vegetables cost more than the vegetables itself; she also explains why lettuce is overvalued, giving details to the nutrition density,…

Do lives need to be lost before people fought for civil rights? 1,134 African Americans have died at the hands of law enforcement officers in 2015 ( Swaine, Laughland, Lartey, and McCarthy). A Movement #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin 's murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted of his crime. Trayvon Martin wasn’t the only African American who was murdered and had his death erupt with riot and protest. Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Sandra Bland are others whose deaths…