Homestead Strike

Whether employees wish to join a union or not they have the rights to organize, create, support a labor union to bargain collectively with their employers. The NLRA encourages collective bargaining because it a tool that ensures healthy company- labor relations. The labor union sees itself as the primary representative that sits and exclusively bargain with the employer over employees’ rights to provide specific services. The Act protects the rights of workers on any discriminatory conduct that…

The Colorado Coal strikes was basically labor uprising in Colorado between 1913 or 1914. This war basically is Southern Colorado coal war. In this war miner's demands was same as west Virginia: an eight hour day, improved wages, eradication of the guard system, the freedom to organize, and union recognition, and John Davidson Rockefeller, Jr., Who had large stake in the mines, refused to even acknowledge the union. and the second strike was in Detroit. The young women in Detroit Woolworth 's…

firefighters are on strike.” Could you image the fear along with anger you might be feeling at that moment, what if I said that could happen in real life; this is just one reason public service workers should not be allowed to strike. Public service workers help us in many ways, from saving our life, to maybe just delivering our mail. We need public service workers to survive, as it is a part of our natural habit. Wouldn’t you agree that if public service workers were allowed to strike it would…

Pullman Strike Due to the decline in the economy in 1893 many manufacturers began to stifle the already low wages of its workers, the Pullman Palace Car Company was no different. However, the result of lowering wages did not waver the cost of rent in the Pullman company town resulting in in inraged, overworked workers. With lower income, high rent, long work days, and poor work environment the workers began to express their resentment towards the company's president, George Pullman. Though…

newspapers in the late 1890’s. Both of the newspapers had coverage of the Pullman Strike available to their readers. The Pullman Strike is an event in Illinois history where workers chose to walk out of their occupations due to the environment. The depression made the worker’s wages get cut by twenty-five percent. This cut was the cause of workers to have an enormous amount of stress, eventually leading to a strike against the corporation. As the public would expect, there was bias present in…

Politics aside, 1919 was also a year of a number of huge scales social protests and riots. The Seattle General Strike, for one, was a five days strike of workers demanding a higher wage. The strike first started with about 35,000 participants but had grown to 60,000 by the time it ended on January 16th. Although no violence was involved throughout the whole protest, the Seattle General Strike was, however, considered by many as a radical attempt of overthrowing the US institution. Another…

The first repercussion of the strike was the destruction of PATCO. At the beginning of the strike, a federal court impounded PATCO’s $3.5 million strike fund and another federal judge imposed fines totaling $4.75 million on the union.On AUgust fourth judge Thomas C. Platt in New York fined PATCO $100,000 per hour for defying a 1970 injunction against striking. The President of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland expressed outrage at Reagan, who was described as ‘union busting’ by labor leaders. It was…

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’…