Yale Political Union

The Winter War was a conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union, November 1939 – March 1940, which, while being a comparatively minor encounter, greatly impacted the political situation of Europe. The conflict broke out as a result of Stalin demanding Finnish territory for both the protection of Leningrad, which they felt was too close to the Finnish boarder, and the setup of naval and military bases. While Finland’s neighbouring countries of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia had all accepted…

there are two major challenges. First, the level of employee relation and engagement is not as efficient as it should be. The focus of employee relation and engagement is moving from ‘collective institution, such as unions, to relations with employees directly. However, the trade union in the paper business remain strong and hard to communicate with. There is a general convention in any work environment that positive physiological contracts yield better economical benefits and strengthen…

During 1934 a huge event occurred when the president of Germany was announced dead, Hitler becomes president, but his party immediately insisted Hitler in becoming the dictator of Germany without the people’s opinion for another president. Germans were glad that Hitler took over because Germany was a disaster at that time there weren’t any jobs and the people needed help so they trusted in him. Hitler promised that their problems would go away, make Germany a better country, and getting rid of…

Wake up, listen to the news, get ready for work, commute, work, eat, make small talk, clock out, commute, get home, listen to the news, eat, sleep, start over. For many this may sound like a normal, uneventful day but for the fictional occupants of Oceania this is life. George Orwell’s novel, 1984, describes the life in a totalitarian government and the consequences given when one is to go against that government. With this novel Orwell revealed to the word the downfalls of the East’s…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…

the Cold War, and the humiliation of the Berlin encounter, Stalin increased his military and strategic planning to additionally secure his borders by moving more troops in Eastern Europe, took political measures to solidify communist efforts, attempted to establish an economic recovery plan for the Soviet Union (COMECON/Malatov Plan), secured his home bases with the purges and imprisonment of ‘traitor enemies,' and succeeded in testing his own first atomic bomb by 1950. Soviet expansion seemed…

1940, he was assassinated with an icepick by Ramon Mercader. Historian Richard Pipes says “His defeat had nothing ennobling about it. He lost because he was outsmarted in a sordid struggle for political power.” As indicated, Trotsky contributed greatly to the Revolution due to his social standing and political power in the roles he undertook. Trotsky believed that true socialism could not be established unless there was a global revolution. His competitor Stalin opposed this, however, Trotsky as…

economics or trade, as exemplified by the European Union. When NATO was created, it signified a change in how the dynamics of the world would be adapting for the present time. Instead of relying on ones own strength as both a diplomat and military power, countries were uniting to create a more formidable force against any potential aggressors. The Warsaw Pact was a response to the underlying threat of what the NATO countries could threaten the Soviet Union…

So instead she holds the union meeting at her own house with both black and white employees. Her husband is appalled that she would have blacks in their home, but she ignores him and continues on with the meeting. At the meeting the other workers voice their own opinions and complaints…

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the national peak body for all Australian Unions and it advocates both domestically and internationally for the rights of all workers. The ACTU has been highly effective in promoting the rights of workers, especially throughout the 2007 Federal election, where it actively…