management on the issue of a legislative ban on replacement workers (Cramton et al.‚ 1999). The use of strike replacement workers is one of the most controversial and emotional issues facing industrial relations‚ and the debate on replacement worker use is marked by differing claims. This paper provides an overview of the use of replacement workers in unionized environments. More specifically‚ it investigates the use of replacement workers during strikes or lockouts. It explores Canadian legislation
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Animal Farm Parallels In the book Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses animals to symbolically represent humans and man’s creation of government and society. Orwell allegorically uses animals and their social groups to criticize Joseph Stalin’s rise to power‚ the overall nature of mankind‚ and the many difficulties that people must face in life. In the story there are many parallels that symbolically represents situations from the Russian Revolution. Some of the parallels are Trotsky to Snowball‚the different ideology and dislike
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compensation fraud. One example of workers’ compensation fraud was reported on by ABC News and involved Bruce Gilbert‚ a bus driver who “talked like a five year old‚ a problem his wife blamed on an ‘on-the-job’ accident” (Hunter). Gilbert’s wife claimed that her husband suffered from a “regressive mental ailment that effectively gave him the mental capacity of a child of about five” (Hunter). Over the course of 10 years‚ the Gilberts received approximately $774‚000 in workers’ compensation. A private investigator
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The Problem with Factory Farms When most people think about where their meat is coming from they think of a small rural farm somewhere‚ but what they do not realize is most their meat is actually coming from factory farms. A factory farm is a large‚ industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. They are a form of animal cruelty and they are hazardous to human health. There are different types of factory farms. For example‚ chickens‚ pigs‚ cows‚ sheep‚ etc. To start with are
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Employment of Foreign Workers (Amendment) Bill‚ 2nd Reading Speech by Dr Ng Eng Hen‚ Minister for Manpower‚ 22 May 2007 Print This Page Email This Page Mr Speaker‚ Sir‚ I beg to move “That the Bill be read a second time.” Rationale 2. Singapore today enjoys strong economic growth accompanied by plentiful new jobs - an all-time high of 176‚000 in 2006‚ of which 90‚900 went to locals. The economic prospects continue to look promising. We have a strong investment pipeline with a
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countries like the United States‚ in which one estimate claims “products made in China have saved the average American family $500 a year.” (Harney 2) With the China Price‚ China’s “share (of the world’s manufacturing output by value added) had grown to 12.1 percent‚ making China the world’s third-largest producer after America and Japan.” (Harney 4) So how does China achieve this competitive advantage? It achieves it by the exploitation of their workers. While these workers continue to slave away
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Construction Management and Economics (2001) 19‚ 789-798 Foreign workers and labour segmentation in Malaysia ’s construction industry ABDUL-RASHID ABDUL-AZIZ School of Housing Building and Planning‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Minden 11800‚ Penang‚ Malaysia Received 1 September 2000; accepted 24 May 2001 One of the profound changes to have taken place over the last two decades in the construction industry in Malaysia is the emergence of foreign site operatives as an indispensable component
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HYPOSTASIS OF THE STUDY WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT- SPECIAL STUDY CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION: The Word ‘Participation’ has its origin n the Latin root ‘participate’ which means taking part or sharing. Sharing is atleast a bilateral process. Hence ‘workers participation’ is considered as a process by which workers participate in Management functions of planning‚ to organizing and controlling with the objective o better results and satisfaction. The move to associate workers in decision-making
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Behind The Scenes of Horrifying Chicken Factory Farms When I was about ten years old I went on a vacation to Minnesota with my family. It was obvious‚ even to my young mind‚ that Minnesota had suffered a series of stormy weather conditions. My aunt explained that there had recently been a small tornado that had swept through the state. We spent several days touring the area to see the damage that had been caused. One particular thing that stuck in my mind was the damage that had been caused
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Animal Farm by George Orwell Background information for George Orwell’s Animal Farm Animal Farm is a satirical novella (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell‚ ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm on which they live. They run the farm themselves‚ only to have it degenerate into a brutal tyranny of its own. The book was written during World War II and published in 1945‚ although it was not widely successful until the late 1950s
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