American Federation of Labor

The gender pay gap has always been an extremely present and controversial issue within America, as well as other countries. The gap between salaries does not only apply to gender and women, the dissimilarities in pay are also noticeable between different races and ethnicities. Although there is a slight gap with every difference possible, the one between a woman’s pay and a man’s pay is the most extreme. Ever since women began working more and attempting to supply for their families the gap…

The Cuban Missile Crisis is an intelligence failure, which almost led to a global nuclear war. This paper examines few of the intelligence failures prior to the crisis. The decision maker failures and Intelligence Community (IC) failures laid the groundwork for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some of the decision maker failures are President John F Kennedy policy of communism containment, prior administration failure that failed to react to the threat and passed the Cuban problem to his successor.…

and improve conditions, and the largest strike occurred among the steel workers from 1919 to 1920. This was known as the "Great Steel Strike of 1919," and it eventually involved more than 350,000 workers (Ohio History Central). The American Federation of Labor organized the strike, and…

In May 1939, the United States sent nearly 1000 people to their deaths when they refused to allow a ship named the Saint Louis to dock at American ports because of immigration policy. Now we hold holocaust parades and have memorials just to say we will never again sit idle and let people like them die, whether they be foreign or not. Yet every year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants die from international terrorist groups such as ISIS or the National Liberation Army (ELN) while sitting on the…

are educators and staff members in Washington D.C., merged with other organizations such as the American Teachers Association and the American Federation of Teachers, and the organization’s push in ending racial/gender segregation within education that affected both students and educators within the 19th century. Staying with the context of how the National Education Association was born into American society is the importance towards the organization’s roots along with how the NEA became an…

The progressive movement was typically made up of intellectuals, muckrakers, and middle class women. The movement looked to deal with these issues through reform, but wanted American society to remain faithful to its long-held values and beliefs. Progressives sought out how government intervention could help out the American people. They also looked to make economic life fair again, an issue driven by economic inequality. In short, the progressive movement embraced the spirit of anti-monopoly,…

dismissed the Act. Further, it has faced challenges in the federal courts, labor unions, and even conservative advocacy groups. Still, the Affordable Care Act is facing its viability in the federal laws as the current President Donald Trump tries to erase it and replace it with a better health care law. In the United States Supreme Court, the constitutionality of the Obamacare was challenged in 2012 in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. The court held that the…

illegal immigrants are employed. According to researchers at the Pew Research Center, “about 8.5 million jobs are encumbered by illegal alien workers out of a total population of 12 million illegal aliens” (Krogstad, Jens Manuel, Passel, & Cohn). Many Americans struggling to find jobs will be negatively affected by the high number of illegal immigrants entering the workforce. According to Professor Liu from Renmin University of China, “U.S. Census data shows that employment rates of native…

As Robert Hubrecht, a scientist from Universities Federation for Animal Welfare confirms, “it has been estimated that fewer than 60 million animals are [annually] used worldwide in research” (5). Comparing that to the population of humans in some states of the United States of America, that number is tremendous…

Resources (coal, iron ore, copper, lead..) * Labor Supplies (immigrants)…