Operation Phantom Strike

Striking Gridiron Striking Gridiron is a book written by Greg Nicholas and it tells about a football team in the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania . During this time was one of Americas biggest labor stoppages in history. Many workers went on strike, and with no money coming in they looked to their football team, the Braddock Tigers. This team was very talented and was looking for their 6th undefeated season and so were all the steel workers because they bet their last dollars on this team in hopes…

Andrew Carnegie was an important United States businessman in the late 1800's and early 1900's born in Scotland in 1835. At age 13 he immigrated to the United States with his family looking for better opportunities. Carnegie found the idea of the Bessemer Process and decided to expand on the idea to make steel in a faster less expensive way. With his ideas the United States was able to expand. Although his ideas may have made a change how the United States industrialized some of his business…

employees and management were high and union establishment would help protect employees. The Homestead strike of 1892 is a great example how union workers stuck together against the big company trying to take advantage of them. This actually touches home to me a little more than most because this is where I am from. I grew up in Homestead, PA and my great grandfather was part of the 1892 strike that affected the Homestead steel mills. Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union and put…

Strikes in the steel industry were commonplace as conflict over wages and working conditions became paramount under rapid growth. The violent Homestead strike of 1892 in Pennsylvania turned into a complex battlefield with Andrew Carnegie using scab African American labor to crush the largest craft union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. In 1919 steel workers fought U.S. Steel and the movement was labeled a “Red Scare,” unleashing an anti-Bolshevik and anti-radical hysteria.…

2B. The H-2A visa allows workers to come over to work while receiving the promised hours up to three-quarters with free living and food and protection federally. The H-2B visa is the opposite; it allows the worker to come over and work, but takes away all of the protection, secure hours and living space (Reese, 2014). The government is assisting in these workers being pushed into forced labor and leaving them with no protection (Reese, 2014). It allows workers to come to the United States under…

and its used for bargaining in good faith and sometimes the demands are not met which could lead to strikes and it is within their right. The most negotiated things within Unions is better health care, pensions and better wages or even just making sure the company does not outsource their jobs. Some ways in which labor unions have helped workers is demonstrated with verizon workers who went on strike because their jobs were being outsourced to different countries just because the company wanted…

Historical Foundation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Before 1935, workers in the United States had a right to down their tools and participate in industrial actions. However, employers too had a right to fire workers who had participated in strikes or had been enrolled in trade unions. It was easier for an employer to hire another employee than for a worker to find a job. By 1933, only 10% of the American workers had joined trade unions. In 1933, a bill that prohibited unfair labor…

serious injury or death. Even with a fixed knife or the blade engaged on your folder you can still strike with the back edge of the karambit blade to strike (think that a piece of steel slapped upside your head won’t hurt?) because once you’ve engaged you don’t back-off or retreat. You want to make every strike count and you continue your counter-attack until the threat is stopped. Impact strikes would predominantly be executed using a pocket knife style karambit rather than…

time. He made the case that it was so compelling and pivotal because of the influx of immigrants, the rise of progressivism, chains of unanswered disasters, and strikes which were resisted. The Triangle factory was at the heart of one of those strikes, and the owners of the Triangle led the movement of manufacturers to resist the strikes. A year later, the Triangle went up in flames. I can see how the combination of these things set the tone for dramatic changes in the…

Labor unions have been a part of the American workforce since colonial times (Cussen, 2012). In their early forms, these unions were craft guilds and mutual aid societies composed of skilled craftsmen, with the aim to restrict entry into a craft and enforce workplace standards (Domhoff, n.d.). As the workplace became more industrialized and skilled labor replaced with mechanized, compartmentalized, lesser skilled workers, skilled craftsmen felt their livelihood threatened (Domhoff, n.d.).…