Strike action

able to go to school because of the CTU Strike that is currently in progress today (The Washington Post). The issue between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools has not been solved yet due to disagreements about the income received. The Chicago Teachers Union has made offers to school administrations; however, the responses were not in their favor. The union has been in progress of agreeing on a contract “since November 2011, [and the strike that occurred at the time] was the first

Similar to the farmers during the Gilded Age, industrial workers combatted poor working conditions, child labor, low wages, and long hours by forming labor unions and organizing strikes, ending as a massive failure. Early in the industrial era, there was no minimum wage, leaving it up to the factory owners to set the rate at which their workers were to be paid. Some owners did not pay their employees in cash but in company scrip which could be redeemed at the company store. For example, in Pullman

the ability to strike. 30,000 teachers took to the streets, 350,000 students were out of school, and hundreds of thousands of parents were forced to adjust their schedules. The strength of the strike option depends largely on the current political environment and the strength of the counterparty’s alternatives. Often, counterparty’s BATNA to negotiating concessions with a union is to utilize temporary workers or to allow weaker unions to bankrupt themselves by allowing the strike to continue until

Strikes of the 70's and 80's: The Invisible Role of Women Throughout history women have slowly moved from the role of mother and housewife into the labor force. In the middle of this rise in stature is a relatively unknown set of events that helped women gain the self-respect and individual attitude needed to move up in the work force. Women's participation in strikes during the 1970's and 80's is relatively unknown in U.S. history. Although the women involved in these strikes made a big impact

Strikes is an occurrence in which workers stop working and demand or protest against their employers regulations or working conditions imposed. Strikes are aimed for the employers to forcedly fulfill the workers demand. Strikes often happen in various different places. Often, a strike would comprise of simply not showing up a work at protesting on the streets however do get brutal. Strikes also vary in sizes depending of the protestors as sometimes there may be hundreds of thousands of people or

For the past handful of years America has had its fair share of problems- terrorist attacks, global warming, horrendous mass shootings, twerking, and so on. Most recently, however, angry strikes from frustrated, underpaid citizens have been in the headlines. Surprisingly, it was found that most of these demonstrators were teachers: angry with the government and the economical approach that was taken to “improve” fiscal issues. Within the United States, this approach was called the Deficit Reduction

trade union development in Nigeria, few industrial conflicts were recorded. For instance, on 9th January 1920, the Nigerian Mechanic Union embarked on the first official strike to resist insufficient wages, long hours of working, stoppage of war bonus, and non-payment of wages for public holidays. With the success of the 1920 strike, the colonial governors introduced trade union laws in their colonies. Thus, it can be deduced that after formal establishments of trade unions in Nigeria industrial climate

“American Federation of Labor and Industrial Workers of the World” The American Federation of Labor was an association of trade unions starting 1886, rising out of an earlier Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions founded in 1881. The AFL's president, Samuel Gompers, was convinced that unions open to workers of all types of skills within a given industry,called industrial unions,were too undisciplined to withstand the tactics that both government and management had used to break American

The British Airways Strikes Effects On Employee Motivation Introduction British Airways is one of the leading airline company in Europe, nevertheless in the last few years it has financial problems, talks begin between British Airways and the Unite (Britain’s biggest union) from January of 2009 to solve the problem. At the beginning, the relationship between the two parties was composed, but the milestone was in 2009 October, when the British Airways stated that they are going to cut the staff

What was the short term significance of the Match girl strikes. In 1888, a disturbance in east London caught the public eye, as around 1400 women and teenagers left their place of work at Bryant and May’s factory. The strike had occurred due to mounting tension between the owners and workers after the publication of Annie Besant’s findings about the conditions in which these women worked in. The Match Girls strike of 1888 had great significance in the short term as its success highlighted the importance