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    unemployed and impoverished in order to attain economic recovery. Major programs introduced in the first New Deal included the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to help boost industry and agriculture within the country. Additionally, the TVA and other government services were provided. FDR also passed the Glass-Steagall Banking Act in order to try and renew faith in the banks to hopefully lead to a quick recovery. The second New Deal was primarily…

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    acquired under the Wagner Act. The Taft Harley Act was definitely more favorable to management by limiting the power that unions had, the intentions of the Taft Hartley Act was to readjust the regulations of labor management and basically give everyone involved a fair playing field if you will. Another big thing the Taft Hartley Act did was to establish 6 unfair union labor practices. It stopped excessive fees for joining unions as a condition of memberships. The Taft Hartley Act also prevented…

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    The Great Depression On October 24, 1929, “Black Thursday”, the Wall Street stock market collapsed, initiating the onset of one of America’s darkest times in history, the Great Depression. This economic downward spiral, caused banks to close, unemployment to rise, people to lose their homes, and a panic amongst the people, affecting every household, every man, women and child. There was an increase in the suicide rate, in violence, families were evicted from their homes and not to forget,…

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    After the country was struck with the Great Depression, the nation and its people still faced many terrible conditions. The stock market had crashed which led to mass poverty across America. This was a shock that changed everyday life for so many unsuspecting citizens. In 1933, a man by the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the presidency. He had numerous innovative ideas that would evolve into programs that attempted to help restore the nation and more specifically, the economy,…

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    Black Friday: The New Deal

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    These new acts and bills helped the economy some, but there was still very high. In the spring of 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched a more aggressive series of federal programs known as the second new deal. The first thing introduced was in April of 1935 and…

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    Electromation, Inc V. NLRB (1992) In 1988 the Electromation organization was experiencing financial hardship. The Electromation organization was a small company with 200 employees. Due to the financial hardship, Electromation management decided to do away with the employee attendance bonus policy as well as the wage increase for 1989. Instead of giving a wage increase, Electromation decided to give a lump sum payment to employees based on their individual length of service. Shortly after…

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    What Is Social Impact?

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    et al. 2012), with SIA developing concepts and tools to assess the social impacts of development projects on people and their livelihoods (Asselin and Parkins, 2009; Tang et al., 2008; Vanclay, 2003, 2006). In the United States, the National Environmental Protection Act 1969 (NEPA) provided strong legislative impetus for the development of procedures for environmental impact assessment, and early references to SIA came in the 1970s regarding the impact of pipeline development on indigenous…

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    multiple factors, including Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that caused the United States to be the last of the major industrial nation to leave the Great Depression. The National Industrial Recovery Act, which was passed in 1933, caused in imbalance economically for businesses. Passing the National Industrial Recovery Act, or the NIRA, the government programs such as the…

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    There were many associations in the USA, and one of the most important ones was the NIRA, the National Industrial Recovery Act. President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded it in his One Hundred First Days, and approved the law on the 16 of June in 1933. (Hansan)Like everything, the NIRA had its pros and cons, but overall what was the impact of the NIRA in USA? The NIRA had benefits on the USA and it helped the country economically. The first thing it did was establishing justice between commerce.…

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    3. Describe the process of establishing and decertifying a collective bargaining unit in the workplace. The process of establishing a collective bargaining unit in the workplace consists of certain steps that should be followed; the organizing time line. The first step in this sequence is initiating; there are three possible initiators: one or more employees, a union, or an employer. Budd states that an employer initiated drive might be odd, but in the “1960s and 1970s some agricultural…

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