National Child Labor Committee

compliance with labor law does not end with the agencies discussed previously, rather, it continues with a number of federal acts that will impact in some way any unions established at Amazon.com. Human resource managers at this company can stay ahead of the curve by not only complying completely with the applicable tenants of these laws, but by gleaning insights from the spirit and intent of their passage. Railway Labor Act The Railway Labor Act, passed in 1926, regulates labor relations in…

1/26/2017 Research Memo of NLRB and FLRA NLRB, the National Labor Relations Board, is an independent federal agency vested with the ability to safeguard employees' rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions. The NLRB is an independent Federal agency established to enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Congress empowered…

As the progress of technological innovation marches on, it brings a new layer of complications to the labor relations process. More than ever, the challenge of balancing employee privacy with employer interests presents immense difficulties, especially with regards to social media. The two cases examined in the following pages form a framework for a cursory investigation of workplace privacy and an employer’s interest and legal rights to restrict the digital activities of their employees. In the…

A teacher, Mr. Dukane, from a large suburban high school in Wisconsin, was dismissed with cause after an event that created a dangerous situation for students. He gave an assignment where students were to create, perform, and videotape a storyboard as part of his media course. While he did give prior approval of the storyboard content to students, he unfortunately did not supervise the students in this off-of-school-grounds activity, nor did he inform the administration, attendance office, or…

conflict began, the African Affairs Bureau requested that Rwanda be added to a list of potentially troubled areas and was denied. A Pentagon staff member replied, “if something happens in Rwanda-Burundi, we don’t care. Take it off the list. U.S. national interest is not involved…” (Power 342). Even more than having no motive to intervene, U.S. political leaders had deliberate reason to remain neutral in the conflict. Intervention in the Rwandan genocide would have been a costly endeavor,…

York Child Labor Committee, now known as the National Child Labor Committee, in 1904. The committee held a mass meeting in Carnegie Hall that was attended by both men and women who were concerned with the conditions that children worked in. The group quickly gained support from many Americans and identified the extent of the problem. By 1912, they reached their first goal. They managed to establish the Children’s Bureau in both the U.S Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor. For…

they would be able to see the man behind the machine. Particularly Hine wanted to show the United States the atrocity of child labor. He did this during one of his early jobs by taking photographs for the National Child Labor Committee (Denzer). It was during his time with the NCLC that Hine took his stand against the driving force of the American Industrial Revolution — child labor. After his departure from a career in teaching, Hine became a photographer for hire (Denzer). Because of this,…

Child labor will continue to be more prominent in impoverished Asian countries until proper laws are put into place and the communities come together to stand up to the child labor owners. With this issue continuing to rise, it puts young children and young adults lives and health in danger due to the fact most of these kids are working machinery they are unqualified to handle or because they are not old enough to be taking care of themselves in a working environment. Child labor has been…

million children working under the age of fourteen. Children were employed in mining, farming, textiles and factories. Child laborers worked long shifts, sometimes up to 14 hours with little break periods. They worked in environments that were unhealthy and dangerous. The children risked losing limbs, being crushed by machinery, burns and exposure to poisonous fumes. Sometimes child laborers were shackled and beaten by their superiors. At the age of 12, Jacob Riis, concerned with people…

photographer. The child tucks one hand snugly in her apron pocket. She folds the other hand under, just above her left hip. The girl's shirt displays tattered ruffles that lay upon one shoulder and the print shows dull, faded polka dots. Likewise, her apron has no hem. The expression she wears says she possesses no extra time for this cameraman. Although she is in the first ten years of her life, the little worker holds her body as if she matured into the exhaustion of adulthood. The child…