Study BY JON HEALEY COMMENTARY BY RICHARD L. TRUMKA‚ RICHARD B. FREEMAN‚ AND JEFFREY ANDERSON The Knowledge Workers’ Strike How much leverage do unions have in a bad economic climate? THE CHROME AND GLASS FACADE of Detonation Media’s headquarters in Mountain View‚ California‚ gleamed in the warm April sun. On the broad front terrace‚ a crowd of camera-ready demonstrators from the Software Engineers Guild milled about and chanted: “No deal‚ no code‚ no games!” The protesters toted signs that
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What causes aggression? Is it an ‘instinct’ or a ‘learned behaviour’? (a) Compare and contrast the views of any two psychological domains on the causes of aggression. (b) Evaluate the validity of their claims in the order to reach an informed decision about the causes of aggression. In order to explore the causes of aggressive behaviour‚ we have to be clear about what we mean by aggressive behaviour. The psychological definitions of aggression are determined by theoretical perspectives and there
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What I’ve learned in high school is that you have to try your hardest and to turn in all your work and if you miss school it could be difficult to catch back up with. I learned that if you slack even the slightest it will bring you down dramatically although it may get rough or hard you should always put your all into the work you do because if you do not show some effort theirs a high chance the teacher won’t think you are trying. I learned that in high school things become much more difficult as
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My teaching this semester occurred in a third grade classroom where I learned so many different things about this developmental level. The first and most obvious thing I learned this semester was that every single student works at their own pace and this can vary substantially from one student to the next. My co-teachers and I taught a unit on writing a book with our students and when students were working on writing their actual book the progress levels of students were incredibly broad. On one
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On August 12‚ 1994 professional baseball players went on strike for the eighth time in the sports’ history. Since 1972‚ negotiations between the union and owners over contract terms has led to major economic problems and the absence of a World Series in 1994. All issues were open for debate due to the expiration of the last contract. Until 1968‚ no collective bargaining agreement had ever been reached between the owners and the players (Dolan 11). Collective bargaining is the process by which union
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What the United States Learned from the Vietnam War The United States made lots of mistakes in Vietnam. It stayed too long in the war‚ it failed to gather intelligence that could have saved lives‚ and we made rash decisions regarding the public’s reaction to us being there. The United States‚ at the most part‚ ignored these lessons as we continued some years later to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. But one mistake we did learn from was the allowance of free media in the war zone‚ and how
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the job to begin what became one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history. The initial reaction was overwhelming. Of ninety-six unions in Winnipeg‚ ninety-four of them joined the strike. The only two that did not join were the typographers and the local police. In fact‚ the police had voted heavily in favor of the strike‚ but the Central Strike Committee asked them to stay on the job to maintain order. Non-unionized workers joined the strike as well‚ as everyone from waiters to ushers
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India. I have learned a lot about Hinduism by reading the story “The Bhagavad Gita” translation by Shri Purohit Swami. A poem called “the Woodcarver” that I also read had to do with Hinduism also. I learned four things from reading “The Woodcarver” and “The Bhagavad Gita.” The three things I have learned were that people have to let go of things that are in the way of them learning new things‚ another thing I learned was that you can do anything if you aren’t ignorant‚ I learned was to achieve things
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What is intelligence? Sattler describes a famous symposium conducted in 1921 at which 13 psychologists gave 13 different definitions of intelligence (1992‚ pp. 44-45). Some of these definitions are paraphrased below: Intelligence is. . . the tendency to take and maintain a direction. . . judgment‚ otherwise called good sense‚ practical sense‚ initiative. . . everything intellectual can be reduced to . . . relations or correlates. . . adjustment or adaptation to the environment. . . global capacity
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Winnipeg General Strike The Winnipeg General strike has been one of the most intensive episodes in Canadian history‚ and it was also an important development in the building of the democratic socialist movement in Canada by laborers in the 20th century. During the 1900’s after World War I and the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917‚ workers were faced with much leadership in factories. They did not have very many rights and the government often allowed owners to treat employees however
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