Waterfront Dispute 1998 Outline the key stakeholders, origins, issues involved, the effects and impacts of the dispute and the resolutions of the dispute.

Eventually, the workers of American Coal, who were once the landowners of the very area they were mining, formed a labor union to fight for better working conditions. The union was met with great opposition by the company’s secret police. As time went on, the coal miners continued to fight for their rights, only to be put down violently by the coal company’s strikebreakers. Union leaders were also fired and blacklisted from the company as a means to put a stop to union activity.

Before this conflict was caused, The wobbles had planned a public demonstration in everett that afternoon, to be held on the corner of hewitt and witmor, a spot usually used by street speakers the wobblies hoping to form one big union. The wobblies, traveled from seattle to everett aboard the stemsters verona and calista to support a strike by local shingle-weavers.”A group of citizens deputies under the authority of snohomish county sheriff Donald Mcrae, refused to let them land. A shot was fired followed by several minutes of gunfire that killed 5 wobblies and two deputies. 74 workers of the world returned to seattle here they were put in snohomish county jail.”

The real impact regarding local residents and businesses on Cronulla beach is their influence on the government as well as their input and suggestions on points of improvement for the Beach. After all, these are the people that are going to be affected the most from any changes occurring. For example the sea wall at Cronulla Beach is not the most attractive thing, yes it is highly beneficial but the local residents and businesses that have to look at it all the time, may not be as pleased as the government is with the idea. It also needs to be taken into consideration that future development doesn’t impact on their property value, access to the beach or coastal views.

On October 22nd, 2001, the Industrial dispute between QANTAS and its employees was initiated with the offering of a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. This proposed an 18-month wage freeze for employees plus a sliding scale profit share scheme. Ten out of twelve unions under QANTAS accepted the terms of the agreement, barring the unions of manufacturing employees (AWU and AMWU). They were holding out for a 4-6% pay rise. On the 8th May 2002, some ten months later, the dispute was resolved when QANTAS agreed to an across the board 6% pay increase. This essay provides an in-depth analysis into the dispute, including causes, the resolution process, the role of stakeholders, and costs and benefits for all concerned.

The general strike of May 1926 was not a success for those attempting to force the government to act to prevent wage reductions and worsening conditions for coal miners. Had the TUC been more prepared to strike and followed through with what the miners wanted them to do, the government would have been faced with a much tougher challenge. Despite this, even if the conservative government were faced with a tougher challenge, the preparations and subsequence actions taken by them were more than enough and the main reason for the failure of the strike.

The submissions of the Australian Federal Government that the Workplace Relations Act 1996, amended by the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 was constitutionally valid prevailed with a majority of 5:2 by the High Court of Australia.1 This High Court decision inaugurated a shift of legislative power from the States to the Commonwealth.2 Since officially coming into effect as of 27 March 2006, the Work Choices Act has been the most comprehensive reformation in Australia in nearly a century, constantly sparking matters of controversy. 3

The Constitutional dilemma of 1975, also referred to as ‘The Dismissal’, was one of the most chaotic eras in Australia’s political history. The Australian Labor Party sailed to victory in the 1972 federal election and Gough Whitlam’s government was ready to propose and implement large numbers of bills and reform policies. After many successes in areas including law reform, the relatively new Whitlam government constantly made mistakes and was getting caught by the public and the opposition. Countering these scandals, the Liberal party attempted to block all money bills from being passed in the Senate. The government was running out of money to run the country. Gough Whitlam was dismissed on 11 November 1975 by the then

In 1919, many problems need to be deal with high goods, high employees and these labors; The United States is Judge Elbert Gary have these tensions with the steel to the strike. Thus, the United States Steel employers quit the job over 250,000.4 Furthermore, these meetings in the strike were breaking up, and the police were riding down in the towns. These issues had as much as complicated when in Farrell, Pa., it has one striker to be killed and also twenty people were injured. This violence was appeared and labors were death with many reasons at this

The initial strike/walk-off was all about the wages and rights of the Aboriginal workers; however, this soon changed to a fundamental issue of traditional lands. Essentially, the walk-off had turned into a large land claim. The Gurindji Aboriginal people basically claimed the land was theirs because they had lived there for longer and their cultures had been involved in the land. Vesteys was prepared to hand the land over; however, there was opposition to this unusual idea. The strike continued for nine years until the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, visited the site of the strike and made history with a symbolic

The case of Mabo v Others v State of Queensland (No.2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 (www.austlii, 1993), rewrote common law as the court ruled in a six to one majority, that the people of

During the Gilded Age, around 1860 to 1910, Unions, in an attempt to improve working conditions, were created, and while strikes from union workers “have been known in America since the Colonial Age… their numbers grew larger in the Gilded Age”: creating a numerous amount of issues that needed to be resolved (USHistory). One specific incidence that demonstrates the problems created was when workers of the Homestead Steelworks, that had unionized, were locked out in an attempt to break the union; however, these workers, recognizing the attempt to hire scabs, blocked the entrance to the steelworks (KhanAcademy). This, in turn, shut down production and angered management, thus a private police force was hired to arm themselves and to “push past

In ‘Twelve Angry Men’ and ‘On the Waterfront’ each protagonist faces conflict through standing alone and challenging others to do what’s right. The differences with how conflict is shown in the texts is that the jurors in Rose’s play are trapped physically, but are able to express themselves and opinions where as the characters are not trapped physically by Friendly, but are afraid and unable to freely express themselves. The scene where Terry stands outside the church with father Barry shows conflict within himself, Terry doesn’t find it easy to act with integrity even though this is what he desires.

Howard Government in regards to the response to the Wik case and meant it harder to make

adamantly opposed any recognition of the union. Thus, the union members decided to strike over wages, safety

In the case of labor, their ability to do so is largely determined by the elasticity of demand for labor and how likely they are to be replaced by other workers and/or machinery. Conversely, management must possess the resources to withstand a strike by their workers in order to maintain a strong level of relative power. In our case, the economic channel of influence on relative power is strongly represented. It is mentioned that jobs at First National were once recognized as being some of the most secure in the Lake City area, but “the advantage of working at the bank in this respect compared to working at the auto plant had largely disappeared 10 years ago when the union first negotiated supplementary unemployment benefits, and… by negotiating a Guaranteed Annual Income which replaced the SUB.” The two main issues addressed during meetings held by union and management representatives with FNB employees were “the pension and profit-sharing plans and the lack of an employer-paid hospital-medical plan.” The profit-sharing plan is generally regarded as “highly valued” and contributes to management’s relative power. Conversely, the lack of an employer-paid medical plan should serve as a source of relative power for the union, as “The First National was the only bank in the area which did not have a hospital-medical