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    Furthermore‚ the growth of unions increased by about 20 percent from 1933 to 1945 because there were new and different strategies such as sit-down strikes for workers driven by their need for respect. Instead of using the standard strike of standing outside and chanting‚ workers had come up with different forms of techniques that caught the attention of people‚ not in unions. The success of these new strategies is very helpful in creating new and improved unions. For instance‚ craft unions who had

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    CAN DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE? The answer is simply yes since strike is a legitimate action to frown on unfavorable conditions. Strike action is legal and any institution that has legal rights can embark on strike when it deems fit by the abiding conditions. If doctors qualify under this democratic legitimacy‚ then under which conditions should doctors be on strike? * WHY DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE? From our history as Ghanaians‚ we have seen doctors going on strike for salary increment. These

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    Strikes were and still are‚ very effective forms of protesting‚ especially for the Indigenous Australians in changing their rights and freedoms. Strikes have had an exceedingly positive effect on helping Aboriginals achieve their goals of raising the minimum wages‚ granting aboriginals the right to elect and their rights to freedom within Australia. This strike was a very good strike to start a kind of rebellion for the aboriginals to gain their share of wages and land rights. This strike was most

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    ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF RAILWAYS Based on European railway reform experiences and applied to Israel Railways J. W. Wolff September 2011 Organizational Structures & Performance Evaluation of Railways Based on European railway reform experiences and applied to Israel Railways Master Thesis September 2011 Jeroen W. Wolff Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr.-Ing. I.A. Hansen (TU Delft‚ Faculty CiTG) dr. W.W. Veeneman (TU Delft‚ Faculty TPM) ir. P.B.L. Wiggenraad

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    4.5 The unfulfilled high-speed railway development Continuity of domination by the capitalist class and road-oriented policy Since 1990s when Thailand has become one of the newly-industrialized countries‚ the capitalist class has been in the dominated status‚ as its members have been able to capture the state and adjust national interests to compatible with its interest. During the 1990s‚ the bunch of provincial capitalists directed the legislative process in the parliament as elected members (Pasuk

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    Social and Constitutional Development in America (1860-1877) During the post-civil war era‚ America‚ specifically the south‚ was undergoing a period of reconstruction. The general goal of reconstruction was to successfully readmit the former Confederacy back into the Union as smoothly as possible‚ as well as enacting specific safeguards of freedmen’s liberties. The social and constitutional developments in America between 1860 and 1877 were very minor. The lack of change between pre and post

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    Thomas the Tank Engine is a small fictional steam locomotive in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son‚ Christopher. He is the titular character and became the most popular character in the series‚ and the accompanying television spin-off series‚ Thomas & Friends. Thomas is a tank engine‚ painted blue with red lining‚ and displays the running number one. All of the locomotives in The Railway Series were based on prototypical engines; Thomas has origins in the E2 Class

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    Indian Railways: Five Year Strategic Plan 1 Introduction The Indian Railways has a capital base of about Rs. 100000 crore and is often referred to as the lifeline of the Indian economy because of its predominance in transportation of bulk freight and long distance passenger traffic. The network crisscrosses the nation‚ binding it together by ferrying freight and passengers across the length and breadth of the country. As the Indian economy moves into a high growth trajectory the Railways have

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    Drones Really Help? Drones are not helpful towards the military‚ there are many reasons behind this statement. Drone strikes help create more problems and killers than stop them‚ drones could even kill or seriously injure people who are not even terrorists (Drones). Drones could kill thousands‚ maybe even a whole population of people‚ and traumatize everybody who survives. Drone strikes make it so the United States do not even go to war‚ they can get out of fighting and the horrors of war (Drones).

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    A SUMMER TRAINING PROJECT REPORT ON “ A Study Of Employee Retention Techniques At Indian Railway” Submitted in the partial fulfillment for the award of Degree of Bachelor in Business Administration 2011-13 UNDER THE GUIDANCE: SUBMITTED BY: Ms. Hema Kataria NRANAJAN KUMAR SINGH FACULTY (Management)‚ CPJCHS ENROLLMENT No. 12921501710

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