Counter-Strike

The 1800s was a rough century. They had a war going on, a lot of strikes, and death. But right after the war was over people started reconstructing America. During the reconstruction there were more jobs available and there were labor unions forming to help with employment. But the labor unions didn’t really work that well because what they care about is pay, worker’s safety, and work hours The workers didn't get much of any of that. They said that their safety was terrible, they didn’t get paid…

A strike is a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer. (www.dictionary.com). The Winnipeg General Strike killed the city in a couple of hours where movement was postponed because of the lack of workers. The strike was historically significant because of its events and also because of it’s before and after effects. The following essay will demonstrate how in all of Canadian history, with…

when people go on strike, you don't have anyone to teach you or to take you to school. This is why I believe that service workers shoul not be allowed to go on strike. First off, these strikes can frustrate the public and make them dislike you and possibly leave. Secondly, there is no guarantee that the employer will meet the demands of the strike. Lastly, if you go on strike your employers has a legal right to hire replacements and put you out of work. First off, going on a strike can make the…

interns to become surgeons. They are already at a higher ranking than these nurses, even though they just started out their career. They walk up to the main entrance of the hospital as they do every day, but because today was the day of the nursing strike, everything was different. The signs consist of different sayings: “Hours over Wages,” “Nurses need a life too,” “Support your Nurses,” “Overtime Kills” etc. While they picket these signs they yell “Fair hours! Fair wages!”. The nurses’…

persuaded by corporate leaders to rule most strikes and unions illegal. In situations like the “Homestead Strike of 1892”, the “Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers” (AAISW) successful got rid of the scabs and Pinkertons who came to the steel plants in Homestead, Pennsylvania. However, because Carnegie’s right-hand man Henry C. Frick was stern with the labor unions and had connections, federal troops were ordered to come in three days after the strike broke out to disperse the union…

In 1969, teachers went on strike for the first time, establishing the beginning of a period of unrest between teachers and the city government. The three largest, most influential strikes happened in the 80s during Harold Washington’s service as Mayor of Chicago. The first strike occurred in 1983 and lasted 15 school days. Teachers demanded a 10% raise but ended up settling for a 5% raise and a 2.5% bonus. In 1984 teachers went on strike for 10 days over frustration with salaries…

Salt of the Earth was a theatrical drama directed by Herbert J. Biberman. The film was based on the actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico. Its genre is a social realism and it was based on actual events. The movie has great ties to Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath, Underdogs, Misfits, and the art of battling giants. For instance just like Martin Luther King Jr. and his friends they had to overcome a giant in Sheriff Connor (Gladwell). The setting of the plot takes…

the grape fields. Grandmother cultivated in the vines until the age of 22, when she was recruited into the Cesar Chavez movement. Silva joined the beautiful historic movement that would forever change the working conditions for farm workers. Strike after strike, unified along with hundreds of voices throughout Delano, Salina, and Stockton union rose against Wine Corporations. Poverty denied grandmother school therefore wasn’t given the opportunity to learn to read or write. Silva supported the…

therefore the company’s labor costs will rise (Berta, 2009). If the company does not agree with the wages, benefits or workplace rules requested by union members, the union members can legally go on strike. Additionally an employer is not allowed to fire a striking worker. Needless to say, a strike costs money from lost production and looks bad publically. A union gives the company less control over human resources for example if the company promotes on merit, that will likely change because…

As strikes became more frequent during the 1920s, strikes like the Alabama Coal Strike of 1920’s would be faced with heavy resistance from all sides, leading to the death or arrest of dozens of strikers. It was from the appallingly abysmal conditions that the miners had to go through, and how wealthy…