Union Nationale

Unions exist in almost every industry from manufacturing and construction to banking and government. Their objective is to represent workers by acting as a bridge between management and employees. Among other important issues, unions facilitate negotiations for increased wages, benefits, and improved working conditions. While a union’s historical purpose is to offer redress for employer violations of employees’ civil liberties and moral rights the tactics that unions have taken in doing so also…

“The Boy’s War”, and there is a reason behind that name. It is said that at least 100,00, or 20%, of soldiers in the civil war were under the legal age of eighteen (PBS.org). Both the Union army and Confederate army loosely followed that rule. It seems as though the Confederate ignored this rule more than the Union. According to Confederate Cavalrymen of the Civil War, “The men ranged in age from a bottom limit of 13 and an upper limit of 58…”. Even though the legal was eighteen, many…

Tennessee and lasting just two days, more than twenty thousand confederate and union soldiers lost their lives. The violent battle was critical for General Ulysses S. Grant and the union because it secured the Mississippi waterway. It also demonstrated just how much grit it was going to take to win the war. America had never seen so much bloodshed in a single battle. It was the battle of Shiloh that set the tone for the Union and Confederate armies, proving that this war will be fought until…

The money raised would be given to countries such as Greece, Germany and Italy who are currently housing a disproportionately high number of refugees. The European Union is the number one donor in the global efforts to alleviate the Syrian refugee crisis. Around 4 billion Euros have been mobilized by the European Commission and Member States in humanitarian, development, economic and stabilization assistance to Syrians…

century Russia, new political and social systems were developing and transforming greatly. For the whole world, “the Soviet Union was a relatively new entity, having been born amid the Bolshevik Revolution that commenced in November 1917. (Stolberg). The Soviet Union symbolized a transformation for Russia as this was a new type of governing for the Russian citizens. The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was established on December 30, 1922. This was the start of…

Introduction Work constantly evolves due to advancing technologies, enlightened management strategies, work reorganization, neoliberal government policies, union involvement, globalization, and environmental sustainability issues. A growing service- and knowledge-based economy in Canada supersedes the historical agricultural and production-based one, and this poses new challenges to the state, management, and workers in the employment relationship and within the labour market. Decisions made by…

Us humans pride ourselves on our intelligence. We certainly use our brains differently to all other animals, often in unusual and surprising ways. Does being clever make it likely that human beings as a species will survive for a long time? Far from it, Chomsky suggests. The problem is that we look at the world through a set of beliefs and values that prevent us acting in our own long term interests. The US, the world’s most powerful country, is far more interested in projecting its power…

and which are not. For example, during the Cold War you could identify shared identities that American and Russians had. A common narrative is that Capitalism trumped Communism to end the Cold War, but if the West was non-democratic would the Soviet Union still have dissolved? Or did democracy play a bigger role? Or where the Soviets ready for the change on their own without the west? It is difficult to answer, because there are numerous potential social factors that could have ended the Cold…

that countries which attempted to achieve this goal usually ended up with a powerful dictator who exercised complete control over society. More specifically, this occurred in 1924 when Joseph Stalin gained control of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union and eventually became the nation’s totalitarian ruler. Utilizing a highly centralized government and a powerful police force, Stalin ensured the obedience of his people and protected his position of power. He executed all potential threats to…

World War 1 and our Multipolar World: Are we on track for another Great War? Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been able to enjoy being the sole great power within the international community. In a world where multiple states are beginning to increase their power economically and militarily while the United States’ power is beginning to decrease, one could point to the onset of World War 1 to asses the likelihood of war occurring today. While there are slight differences…