Operation Phantom Strike

“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.” – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Before the 1909 strike where more than 20,000 garment shirtwaist makers walked out to picket for better wages and improved working conditions, there was the Lowell Mills women who organized to protest wage cuts in 1834 and again in 1836. The rebellious act of the Lowell Mills women was poignant, as it embarked a mass movement for workers’ rights in the United…

Unionization of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters The fight to form a union can be done. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded after workers for the Pullman railroad felt they were being treated unfairly by their employer. The discrimination and prejudice African American railroad workers faced on the job were harsh. They worked a lot and were underpaid for the jobs that they performed. They knew that things had to change within their work place for everyone to be…

1. The effectiveness of strikes has been a significant topic of discussion in the Chicago school system. Teachers went on strike in 2012 and narrowly avoided striking in October, 2016, despite falling enrollments and a multi-billion dollar deficit that threatens to put the district into receivership. In what cases are strikes more likely to be effective in both the short and long run? Discuss this from both political and economic viewpoints. A more effective tactic are slowdown tactics, you…

Melvin Aloysius Alisha Loftin History 1302 February 25, 2015 1) How did involvement in union activity empower workers of Slovak descent economically and politically? To what extent did the union movement change the lives of unskilled workers? Thomas Bell’s novel Out of This Furnace portrays the struggles of three generations of Slovak immigrants in Pittsburg. The immigrants settled in the steel mill town and worked hard to make money while fighting with the workers’ unions for better pay. In…

action with 150,000 members called for a strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company. Pullman was furious by the strike, Pullman closed the plant, intent on waiting out the workers. The members of the ARU called for the national membership to take over. The union voted to refuse to work on any train in the country that had a Pullman car, this put the passenger rail service came to…

What are the factors affecting the prices of options? Explain the assumptions in the Black-Scholes model. In order to understand the factors that affect the prices of options, we need to understand what options are and how they work. Options are derivative assets. According to a California-based company called Optionetics (website: www.optionetics.com), "options are the most versatile trading instruments ever invented". This means, that you aren 't limited to making a profit only when the market…

Larry Itliong became one of the most outspoken leaders for better working conditions and higher wages for Filipino workers. Andy Imutan, an original striker from the 1965 walkout stated, “ [Summer of 1965] Filipino workers went on a strike demanding that their wages be increased from $1.10 an hour as well as better living conditions.” Winning against the growers became more difficult when Mexican workers started replacing the Filipinos for labor, known as “crossing the pickets”, it…

because they were created for those who worked on farms and in the fields and in factories and not for those who work in corporate America today. It may also be said that no one hardly strikes any more, and the ones that do does not have any victories for the workers. Others may say that the decline of the strike and the loss of members has reduced the effectiveness of the existing unions. Let us not look at the negative aspects of unions but let us focus on the positive impact of the…

happened upon easily. Matthew Josephson uses great examples in the Robber Barons. Of some of the battles Unions took on during the Industrial war. Citing the big Carnegie steel works known as Homestead as the most spectacular. According to Josephson this strike shows the utter spirit of the works at this time and pure greed of the “Captains of…

Would a person who is willing to donate millions of dollars to one community have the right to be called a hero? Usually the answer is yes to most people because it is an act of kindness, setting aside time and effort to help their community, a hero-like thing to do. However, does that make that person a good person? What if they could have stolen that money, be involved in illegal activities, long-story short the public honestly does not know the true story behind it. The public only knows what…