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    Strike at Petrograd

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    Strike at Petrograd On January 9th‚ 1917‚ 140‚000 workers went on strike in Petrograd to commemorate Bloody Sunday. Bloody Sunday was on January 22nd‚ 1905‚ more than 3‚000 unarmed‚ peaceful demonstrators‚ led by Father Gapon‚ were marching to present a petition to Czar Nicolas II. The Imperial Guard fired warning shots and then fired directly into the crowd‚ killing 96 and injuring 333. Later on February 14th‚ 1917‚ over 140‚000 people went on strike in Petrograd because of food shortages‚ which

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    The General Strike

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    The General Strike The General Strike started May 3rd 1926 and lasted nine days ending on the 12th May 1926. Mine owners wanted to normalise profits even during times of economic instability – which meant that miners’ wages would be reduced and working hours would be extended. The miners were not happy with the changes that were about to happen so they decided to go on strike. This documentary exercise is going to evaluate two primary sources from the General Strike. It will consider form‚

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    The Right to Strike

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    | | |The Right to Strike | |Mini Case 3 | Seven of the employer’s 11 concrete truck drivers

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    strike action

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    Strike action   A strike is a collective withdrawal of labour by employees. Under such action‚ employees refuse to perform all work‚ not just selected duties. Strikes are usually‚ but not always‚ organised by a union. The purpose of a strike is to pressure an employer (or other third party) into complying with particular demands or refraining from doing something.   Under the federal Fair Work Act 2009 strike action may be ’protected action’ if undertaken during a bargaining period for an enterprise

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    Asuu Strike

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    ASUU STRIKE : THE REAL CAUSE OF ASUU JULY STRIKE The Nigerian Educational Logjam The Crisis at RSUST Re-engaged University of Ilorin Lecturers The Seemingly Intractable University of Abuja Crisis IMF/World Bank and Nigeria’s Economic Development 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement You will recall that ASUU declared a total‚ indefinite and comprehensive strike on 4th December 2011 in order to prevail on government to sincerely and judiciously implement the 2009 Agreement it freely entered into with our

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    Students Strikes

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    STUDENTS STRIKES The purpose of this study was to investigate the management of secondary school students’ unrest and the responses of school managers in the light of the causes of students’ strikes in Machakos District. . This study sought to find out the causes of strikes and the response of the school managers‚ and their effect on the management of secondary schools in Machakos District. Three main objectives guided the study thus; to establish the causes of students’ strikes in Machakos District

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    Writers Strike

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    Running head: THE WRITERS STRIKE 2007-2008 THE WRITERS STRIKE 2007-2008 Richard J. Moson Full Sail University The Writers Strike 2007-2008 The Writers Guild of America is a labor union that represents the thousands of professionals who write what we see and hear on our televisions‚ in movies‚ and. The guild combines the efforts of two different US labors; those east of the Mississippi are included in the Writers Guild of America‚ East. Those members in Hollywood and southern

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    strike in space

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    Strike in Space Case Study Executive Summary This case centers on the original 3 Skylab missions that began in 1973 following a successful series of Apollo missions starting in the 1960’s.  NASA viewed the Skylab missions as logical successors of the Apollo missions and each of the Skylab missions picked up where the prior one left off.  The primary focus of the missions was to determine if humans could in fact live comfortably for extended periods of time in weightless conditions and prior to

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    Nurse strike

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    will be discussing the current issue of conflict between nurses’ demand of increase on their pay and government’s comparatively lower related nurse pay policy. Background information will presented first‚ followed by an analysis on the strike and reasons why this strike happens. In the end‚ there will be theoretical evaluation about industrial relations focusing on absenteeism and industry productivity. Background information The contemporary human society is composed with many fundamental facilities

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    The Teacher's Strike

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    TURZAR‚ ALMA F. BSE-B12 THE TEACHER’S STRIKE It was April of 1990 when the teacher’s strike began and ended at the end of May of the same year. The teachers’ strike at our Boystown/ Girlstown in Manila where I studied High School was classified as one of the major crises in the life of the Sisters and our Founder‚ Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz. At first‚ Fr. Al misjudged the situation and treated it as nothing

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