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    following the death of a worker in an alleged police firing. It is not just blue collar workers who have been aggressively asserting their rights or protesting and striking. Pilots of India�s biggest airlines like Jet Airways and Air India went on strike on separate occasions last month. So‚ what has led to this increase in worker protests? Jayant Dawar‚ VP‚ Auto Component Manufacturer Association (ACMA)‚ blames it on political parties trying to seek advantage in the recently held elections. �When

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    The royal mail industrial dispute Two days of national strike action was taken in October 2009‚ supported by an overwhelming YES vote of three to one launched by Communication Workers Union (CWU). The dispute over pay‚ job securities and working conditions is still continuing although CWU has suspended strike to provide a period of calm for the Union and Royal Mail to negotiate a full and final agreement on the introduction of automation and relevant working practices. The strained relations of

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    cases such as the two Sherman acts that were passed in 1890 but other laws passed were used to keep a stable monopoly of railroad transport. Riots and strikes by labor unions were not a pivotal point to promoting the positions of workers as it actually did the opposite as hoped. Strikes and protests ended up bloody like the Haymarket riot and strike of 1887. It was in the employers best interest to make sure there workers were not participants of any labor unions and if a worker was found to be in

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    Traffic Controller and PATO The strike as a weapon‚ which PATCO attempted to use against the FAA‚ became a disaster for labor in 1981. 12‚000 striking employees of the FAA were fired by President Ronald Reagan and replaced. The success of breaking the strike by air traffic controllers sent a message to employers and employees everywhere; this was the beginning of the end for organized labor. PATCO existed from 1968-1981 when it was decertified as a union. The strike and the defeat are called one of

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    Negotiations between Airline Company Qantas and Unions groups‚ Transport Workers Union (TWU) and Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) Task1 Both Trade unions TWU and AIPA both identify their main Substantive issues as an increase in pay. AIPA negotiate with Qantas over pay‚ pilots have been offered a 2.5% pay increase. AIPA argues that this increase does not match the inflation rates and in real terms the pilots will be going backwards not forwards. Although AIPA is confident

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    Sex-strikes have been used in history to prevent and end wars since the early 1600s‚ but first written about in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes in 411 B.C. The main premise of Lysistrata has had a lasting effect politically on the way that certain events have been improved and averted. The way that the women were written by Aristophanes was advanced for the time period that the play had taken place. Having the experience of a play differs drastically than reading it to yourself‚ quietly in your

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    Strikes and lockouts: LRA 66 of 1995 | Right to strike and recourse to lockout | A strike or a lock out is prohibited when:1. a collective agreement prohibits it2. issue in dispute must be referred to arbitration or Labour Court3. issue in dispute is arbitration award‚ collective agreement or Minister award4. a determination in BCEA 75/97 regulates the dispute (only in first year) | Protected and unprotected strikes and lock outs | Substantive and procedural requirements set forthProcedural requirements

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    Clocker’s ARTS/100 March 7‚ 2011 Clocker’s The story to clocker’s is mentors who do young kids look up to spike lee captures this in Ronald "Strike" Dunham a young drug dealer influenced in the wrong way as the part depicts Rodney a father figure to him a reminder to Oliver Twists Fagin‚ Ronald deep down inside he was trying to break free from the guns and drug. He was doing what every other young kid was doing in the ghetto selling drugs dealing on a park bench. (Quart‚ L. 1995). The

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    Association was also formed during this time‚ to protest the labor conditions in the Bahamas especially with regards to minimum wage. However‚ very little was done at the time. It all started in 1958 when the Taxi Cab Union went on strike. This union went on strike because hotel operators had made an agreement with a limited group of tour companies (who operated limousines and tour buses). The agreement meant loss of jobs for the taxicab workers. As a result‚ on November 2nd‚ 1958‚ they blocked

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    The Haymarket Rally was not a random happening. It was the end result of nearly a decade of protesting and strikes. The beginning point of this long road‚ if there ever was one‚ would be the campaign for the eight hour work day. The eight hour work day for skilled labor was championed by one William Sylvis. Sylvis was an iron molder who was the President of the National Union of Iron Molders‚ when he decided to have all skilled laborers in unions. He felt that it would be beneficial to owners to

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