Wage slavery

Unions were necessary in the early 1900s due to bad working conditions and management being in full control over its workers. The tension between both the 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…

Alan Joyce, the combative chief executive of Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways, is flying high these days. Along the way he plans to reward shareholders with their first dividend in seven years and has generated enough cash to pay bonuses to 25,000 staff. The positive results suggest that Mr Joyce strategy of cutting costs and calling off a price war with rival Virgin Australia has finally paid off, although the big fall in fuel prices also aided Qantas™s cause. Now Mr Joyce has another…

collectively with their employers 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…

National Labor Relations Act The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), also known as the Wagner Act, is a Federal Law enacted by the Congress in 1935 to protect both employers and employees. It protects employees regardless of whether one is a member of a union or not. It grants them the right to form or join trade unions in order to improve their working conditions. NLRA stabilizes the employer-employee union relations (Bible, 2015). The Act also restrains certain private sector labors and…

The Wage Gap. There is a very big problem about payment, not just in the United States but also all around the world. For every dollar a man makes women make from 70 cents to 80 cents, for the exact same job. Why? What is the difference between men and women doing the same job? Though the woman's paycheck has improved since the 1970s, when it was just 59% to what men were being paid. As of 2014 the wage gap was 79% of what men were being paid. It took approximately 40 years to raise it that…

policies leave off. LTD, STD and employer benefits are all independent from one another, they do not overlap. However, they are alike in the sense that both policies seek to protect employees’ earnings with the provision of a percentage of their wages before they become disabled, in order to assist them with their monetary obligations for a fixed period of time. In summary, Standard Disability insurance plans, such as STD and LTD, are similar in the aspect that they both look to give workers a…

During the welfare reforms of the 1990s was the most discussed topic since many people of the American population believe people were cheating the system by having more kids many acts came into play to balance out welfare the reasoning to see if low wage mothers could survive. What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is what you’re really selling is your life” (Ehrenreich) when you work a low paying job for little or no money you working for life.…

Standards Act (FLSA) with stress placed on the fact the statute provides a very broad definition of employment. The head of DOL’s Wage and Hour Division, David Wells, put together a 15-page administrator’s interpretation that showcased employees being improperly labeled as independent contactors resulting in a gray area where employers were able to skirt minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. It was also pointed out that the correct classification would have critical implications for…

There are some several reasons why top sports people are paid high income. Famous athletes must experienced many years of training to develop the skills and fitness required and sometimes they could risk their lives and health. The number of people having real talent in each sport fields are often very few and sometimes they is unique. For example, it is rare to find someone with the tennis skills of Roger Federer who is regarded as the greatest tennis player of all time and it can be argued…

became more industrialized and skilled labor replaced with mechanized, compartmentalized, lesser skilled workers, skilled craftsmen felt their livelihood threatened (Domhoff, n.d.). Organizations taking advantage of industrialization began cutting wages and increasing work hours (Domhoff, n.d.); developments that early labor unions fought against. In the latter part of the 19th century, industrialization continued to be an issue for the labor force. To compound this issue, immigration/migration…