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The Financial Impact on Business as a Result of Labor Laws in France and Greece

in France are high, it is estimated that the cost to the employer on top of the wages is up to 50% in France, to put this in conte...

Questions on Organized Labor Answered

In five pages this paper features answers to questions on such organized labor topics as organizing trends, internal workers organ...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

Free Labor Movement and International Law

true across the globe. If we look at the UK there have been many instances where free movement of labour into the country from t...

Cohen: "Making a New Deal"

experiences help to explain how the politics of these workers evolved (Cohen, 1991). The solidarity that crystallized into the st...

Argument for Child Labor

controlling other cultures it does not even begin to understand. America takes its own ideals and puts them on cultures they do ...

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935

as the National Labor Relations Board which possesses a power wherein they can investigate issues, and made decisions on issues, t...

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

of big business, especially in the past in this country, there was the issue of money and the power of money and how some companie...

Labor Law Issues

("U.S. Department of Labor," 2006). Workers covered under FLSA must get a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour ("U.S. Department of Labo...

World Trade Organization and United States' Labor Unions

the United States seem to be able to get away with firing striking workers and organizers in ways that they just wouldnt be able t...

Yale University Strike of 2003

purpose of using Yale as a "national platform for publicity for the labor movement and for organizing efforts" (Innskeep, 2003). ...

US Employment Law and Labor System

are not strong enough. A new trend to let go of older executives has swept America and while there are sporadic lawsuits, it has n...

Administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Labor Unions

Citys mayor before Dinkins would grab the title in 1989. Many consider Koch to have been a great mayor, and while that is the case...

UPS' 1997 Labor Strike and Management Lessons Learned

general, as an organization grows bigger its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 1999). As the environment in whi...

American Labor Movement During the 19th and 20th Centuries

his business is in an industry where time is important. In fact, time is important for most any business and few industries are no...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

US Labor Unions in the Future

more male members than female (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). * Of Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and Blacks, Blacks are m...

1st Year Labor Union Membership Importance

which certain social populations can better their existence, as well as how: * Unions Raise Wages-Especially for Minorities and W...

Post 1900 US Baseball Labor and Wage Issues

pension scheme. The players were fed up with low wages, especially as the revenue for baseball were increasing with the televising...

Cesar Chavez, the Man, the Union Organizer, and the Minority Rights' Activist

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

Labor Organizations and September 11, 2001 Effects

rather than gaining in influence. "Writing in The Next Agenda, David Moberg explains that unions are crucial to making democracy ...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

Hormel Company and the Lessons Learned from the Mid 1980s' Strike

In five pages this paper discusses the Austin, Minnesota Hormel strike and how the union activity was defeated in a consideration ...

A Consideration of Labor in America

In four pages this paper critically reviews the text Epitaph for American Labor: How Union Leaders Lost Touch with America by Max ...

Union History and Reform Legislation

Union history is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages in which the Wagner Act, the Taft Hartley Act, and the Labor Mana...

Labor Relations Laws and the 'Right to Work'

individuals in a new workplace would chose union participation and pay union dues. Many individuals either find union dues cost p...

US Steel Mills and Unions

In six pages this research paper includes a literature review that presents an analysis of the current relationship between US lab...

Soviet Restructuring and Perestroika

In eight pages this paper examines Mikhail Gorbachev's approach to Soviet Union restructuring in a consideration of Perestroika an...

Labor Unions and Airline Mechanics' Involvement Implications

complained through its national director that President Bush not only was "taking sides," but that he was taking the side of the a...

Globalization and US Labor Unions

(Trumka, 1996). Back in 1996, Trumka made the announcement that the fight for unions would not just be an American worker ...