Lucky Strike

intimidating language calculated to influence employees in the exercise of their right to support a union. • Tell employees that they would have received a wage increase except for the start of the union campaign. • Tell employees that the union will have to strike to obtain concessions from the employer. • Discriminate against employees who are taking part in union activities by separating them from other employees and by transferring them to undesirable tasks in retaliation for their union…

Negotiations between an employer and employees to determine wages and conditions are referred as collective bargaining. Public employees are usually represented by unions or other labor groups in order to get fair agreements. Collective bargaining is endangered in some states and states such as North Carolina and Virginia even have ban on it. This brings up controversies. Some people believe it is a right to bargain for improvement in their working conditions and wages, some people think that…

Workers Be Allowed to Strike? Think of what the world be like if there was no fireman, police officers, or teachers. These are just three examples of very important government workers. But what if these people were not able to assist you because they were on strike for their common interest? These workers are so depended on and without them our lives would be quite different. We could face many different types of danger and have no education. If they are allowed the right to strike, we could…

UNIOINIZED AND NON- UNIONIZED WORKPLACE UNIONIZED WORKPLACE In a union workplace, they bargains with the employee for the contract. The collective agreement is a contract and then they make sure that the contract must be carried out. The contracts can be defined as the legal documents between the person and the employer that finalize about the wages, benefits, and rules of the employment. PROS AND CONS OF UNIONIZED WORKPLACE 1. Unionized workplace offers higher wages. 2. They have better working…

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…

“Never stop” – looking back the conflicts of unions and collective bargaining Since the last few decades, there is a major decreasing from the union membership, which causes the American unions function less influential to their labor movement. Since the federal statistical data shows that there is only about 12% of workers are union members, which is about 20% cut down in 1980s; compared to the private companies, the number has plummeted a staggering 10%. Based on the reduction of the union…

The Pilbara Strike Summary • Started May 1st 1946 and ended in 1949 • Hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral workers left their work for better pay and conditions • This caused sheep stations to stop production • Strike was organised with no phones or radios • Longest strike in Australian Hisotry • 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers from 27 stations in Western Australia walked away from their job • Predates the Wave Hill strike in NT by 20 years • Sometimes referred to as “Blackfellas’ Eureka” • Wanted…

The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the first of its kind, infectious enough to spread through the nation. As it collected tens of thousands of supporters, the strike shut down the American railroad system for six weeks before Pinkerton spies thwarted their revolution and put the freight trains back on rail. In the end, the Great Strike failed. But it begs to be asked: would the outcome have changed if the strikers had organized under a labor union strong enough to keep them fighting? One such…

Dear City Council Member Mark Squilla, I’m writing to you today because of my concern about the way SEPTA runs. Many philadelphia citizens take public transportation daily. We trust that the system will get us to our destination. I have seen that recently over a couple of years that people feel angered by SEPTA. I think the anger comes from the delays, the detours, the wait time and the physical condition of the buses and trains. The buses are old and do not run very fast at times. The…

“United we bargain, divided we beg,” was the slogan for working class individuals that lead many men and women to come together to demand better hours, working conditions and higher pay. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is one legal theory that plays an important role in the way in which many businesses operate and . “The NLRA guarantees the rights of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employers and to engage in other protected concerted activity.” When an employee…