...The provided excerpts from the book Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention by Frank Kusch, along with the article "1968 Democratic Convention: The Bosses Strike Back" by Haynes Johnson, discuss the tumultuous atmosphere surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Both texts describe the disorderly condition of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, as well as the reason behind such disarray. However, Johnson's article focuses more on the long-lasting political results of the convention, as well as the background behind the political disunity within the Democratic Party at the time, while Kusch's book centers more on the police and protesters, specifically the confrontation between them, their actions before and during the convention, and the different judgements they had of one another. In addition, while the article concentrates further on the Democratic delegates and the reason why America never entered a "golden age" after President Johnson's political victories in 1964, the Battleground Chicago excerpts place much of their attention on the security measures taken by the...
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...with the commission and they were first employers of TSC before coming members of the union.Which has led to 5000 teachers to face discplinary action over the strike. Mombasa Port:The saga sorrounding the Norwegian ship held at the Mombasa port took yet another twist after the dicovery of 34 sophisticated american riffles.This came only a day after a white substance was found stashed in some United Nations(UN) trucks destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo. - Derived from Standard Digital media 2. a) Define media (2mks) . media are materials that hold data in anyform or that allows data to pass through them including paper,optical desks etc derived from Wikipedia. b) Differiantiate between Print and Broadcast media. (8mks) print media is a medium that disseminates printed matter e.g magazines while broadcas’ t media is amedium that broadcasts the signals getting to the listener or viewer.it may come over the air as with radio station or tv station to an antenna and radio receiver.. - Derived from google 3. Write a commentary on the ongoing teachers strike. (10mks) (300 words) The TSC warned teachers that they had individual contracts with the commission and the first employers of the TSC before they are members of the union which has led to 5000 teachers to face discplinary action over the strike. The Ministry of Education has supported the TSCs move to take discplinary actions against the 5000 striking teachers while the Cabinet secretary Prof...
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...towards 0° true . Step RT 90° Zenkutsu dachi – Mawashi uke- high RT low LT towards center . 3. Strike LT head 0° true , retract & block downwards LT. Stomp LT foot then punch RT pivoting feet 90° LT into Zenkutsu Dachi. 4. Strike RT head 0° true , retract & block downwards RT. Stomp LT foot then punch LT pivoting feet 90° RT into Zenkutsu Dachi. 5. Strike LT head 0° true , retract & block downwards LT. Turning 180° RT , draw RT foot back Neko Ashi dachi RT over LT then step RT Seisan striking RT towards head. 6. Step LT 180° Hanmi slashing pointed LT (LT under pointed RT). Step RT Hanmi slashing RT under LT (LT remains stationary). Repeat LT. Step RT Hanmi stabbing RT at SP chambering pointed LT. 7. Pivot LT 180° on RT foot in Seisan, stab LT. Step forward into 45° LT Seisan angled. Stab RT at SP towards rear . 8. Turn LT 180° in Kake Ashi (or Kosa?) Dachi (LT forward). Rotate hips blocking high LT, follow through striking high RT (LT remains high to rear, martini glass configuration). Then continuing turning 180° LT come down on RT knee, slash LT chambering RT. 9. Rise to Seisan. Stab RT. Step into LT forward Kake Ashi (or is it Kosa?) Dachi Rotate hips blocking high LT, follow through striking high RT (LT remains high, martini glass configuration). Turning LT 180° come down on RT knee, slash LT chambering RT. Retract both while rising to Seisan then punch RT. 10. Turn LT 90° stepping back into Neko Ashi Dachi (LT forward) chambering RT over LT. Step RT knee down slash LT...
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...the discovery. The drilling proved that numerous test points had high quality ore at attractive depths. However, the tests did not give an estimate to the widths of the drill spots. The company continued to test the zone. By April 7th, the test revealed that the area could contain enough ore that commercial drilling could exist. On April 10th, two additional test holes were drilled that revealed a substantial discovery of copper. On April 11th, rumors began to surface that a major ore discovery was in the process. The following day two American paper companies released articles containing unauthorized documents that concluded that the company had a rich discovery. A press release was proposed by the TGS, and they told the public to hold back on the release of the rumors. In the press release, the president of TGS stated the estimations of the volume of ore...
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.... What real life labor movement was the film Salt of the Earth based on? Based on the book From Out of the Shadows and the film Salt of the Earth, how did women participate and contribute during the miners’ strike? What did the workers and their families gain through this movement? The film Salt of the Earth is based on Cold War politics and Mexican-American labor. Women participate and contribute during the miners strike in many different ways such as feeding the men while they were protesting. However, afterwards women take the men places on the line and men assumed childcare and household responsibilities. Even though women were assaulted and harassment they refused to be intimidated. In fact, women fought back for their rights. According to the book From Out of the Shadows the majority of the union negotiated team during the Empire Zinc strike were not miners, but wives of...
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...Performance Management Driver Compensation: Uber does not offer their driver’s any compensation or incentive to improve performance. Their competitor lyft offers drivers who sign up and give 50 ride’s within 30 days can receive a anywhere from $50-$750 bonus dependent on which city you are driving in. Uber has also cut their rates which is starting to affect their driver’s. A reporter with Pbs interviewed an Uber driver named Bob who said “Before the rate cuts, about 20 hours a week. Now I’d say it’s more like 10 to 12. It was lucrative in the beginning, when I first started, [but] now with the rate cuts, you basically break even. With some rides, you might actually be losing money. So, the money’s just, you know, not there — and you’re putting wear and tear on your car. For me, it’s not worth it to do so many hours”. (Pathe, 2014) So due to Uber’s rate cuts many of their drivers leave to go drive for lyft or they only work during peak times. Uber is causing demotivation for the drivers as they have to worry about their overhead expenses such as, mechanical failures, insurance and gas. Measurement of Performance: Measuring driver performance is crucial for ongoing success in the taxi industry. As for Uber they just collect the information and do nothing to improve their flaws. They receive the information by a driver rating system, which they are extremely strict about what their drivers rating should be. For instance Uber will receive information on what their...
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...Chief Steward---Absenteeism---Discharge Peter Frost is a 52 year old maintenance mechanic with 25 years service in a construction materials plant in western Mississauga. He originally completed his mechanic apprenticeship in England. Peter is known as a likeable, fairly knowledgeable, technically competent tradesman, with a pro-union stance and enough leadership skills to have been chosen chief steward by his fellow union members 8 years ago. He is viewed by the company as someone to fear because he orchestrated and lead a successful illegal strike four years ago in a dispute over vacation pay. The strike cost the company over a million dollars in lost productivity. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t seem to want to come to work, and when he does he is often late. Over the past four years, Peter has missed over 100 shifts due to absenteeism, and he was late an additional 53 times. The records also show that on at least 25 occasions Peter not only missed his shift but, but he didn’t advise his supervisor that he would be absent. Absenteeism in the plant averages six shifts a year. The company has noticed a significant deterioration in Peter’s performance over the past four years and it is getting progressively worse. There seems to be a pattern of Monday and Friday absences and there are strong and persistent rumours from other employees and supervisors that Peter’s breath smells of alcohol on a regular basis. When Peter is at work, his mood swings are totally unpredictable...
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...John Specht 2/22/14 Film Clerks Clerks written and directed by Kevin Smith. First off I picked a film made by Kevin Smith mainly because he is my favorite writer and director. He also makes it seem like anyone can become a film maker after Clerks was made and it was picked up by Miramax and it was only made for less than twenty eight thousand dollars. This was Kevin Smiths first film in which then several others has followed. Clerks main plot line is two convince store clerks who are in their twenties that go through their day to day lives while talking about their past and future. This movie is based on actual experience of Kevin Smith and is actually filmed in the same store in which he worked in. The whole movie is shot in black and white. You would think it is because of some mood or such Kevin Smith was trying to get. However though, the decision to film the whole movie in black and white was made simply because of the lighting that was in the store as they filmed the movie was interfering with the camera and so he decided to do it all in black and white since it was a lot cheaper than getting extra equipment to make the lighting just right. The two main charters names is Dante and Randal. Dante runs the actual store and Randal runs the video store who is Dante’s best friend. Dante’s charter is based on Kevin Smith and Randal is based on his long time friend from childhood Bryan Johnson. Some of the support charters include Dante’s current girlfriend...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Hotel Escargo Hotel Escargo AIU – MGT656 Abstract In this paper Hotel Escargo’s collected data is graphed and information for the work management and time study analysis is described. One area is area is focused on to create a fishbone diagram to capture the potential root causes. Hotel Escargo Hotel Escargo’s check-in process is expected to be completed in four minutes or less. The average check-in time for guest on July 31st was four minutes and 51 seconds, the minimum time the check-in process took was two minutes and 23 seconds and the maximum time was eight minutes 45 seconds. The issue that occurs during check-in is the average time for check-in is 51 seconds more than is to be expected and exceeds it by four minutes in some cases. Figure 1 will show the data in a table (Hotel, 2014). Work measurement is the application of time and motion study with activity sampling techniques that will determine the time a qualified worker can complete a specific job in a set level of performance. It’s used to determine the budget, planning for manpower, set the schedule, determine the cost, etc (Work, 2014). The work measures to do would be to find three of the least qualified guest service clerks to check-in ten people as efficiently as possible. Once the thirty people are checked-in, the average of their times should determine if there is a problem with the check-in times. A time study analysis looks at a specific job to find the most efficient method to do...
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... Food, drink, and luxury, are all sought after by the typical taruean because this sign loves luxury and they are willing to work hard to obtain it moreover they are slow to anger, but once disturbed they can be volatile.” This description best suits Paul because at one point through the novel he and his friends were hiding in a dugout due to heavy fire and mortar strike, few hours later his friends decided to leave the dugout but Paul told them that he had a feeling that if they go out they will get killed, however one of his...
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...after the budget was settled. A movie is great if it reached a large percentage of the population and that population determined through criticism and good reviews that the movie is worthy to be seen for a second, third, or fourth time. Another justification of greatness is if the film warrants purchasing the film on Blu-ray disc or a digitally copy to put on your computers hard drive. I will be critiquing the 1985 film Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. These are the main characters of the film for which the story revolves around. Michal J. Fox plays the main character, Marty McFly, who travels back in time in a Delorean time machine invented by Christopher Lloyd’s character, Dr. Emmett Brown. Lea Thompson plays Lorraine McFly, Marty’s mother, Crispin Glover plays George McFly, Marty’s father. Thomas F. Wilson is the antagonist as Biff Tannen. There are plenty of supporting roles throughout the film but the main characters will be the focus of the critique. Director for Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis, he role is to translate the screenwriters story so the actors and crew can carry it out. He is the boss in every stage of the film making process and often receives an outsize measure of credit or the blame. The cinematographer is Dean Cundey, his responsibilities are the look of the...
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...He seems to only view the facts as being important, and feelings and emotional attachments hold him back. When Kemmerich is lying in the bed dying, Paul and Müler only think about the boots that they could have once Kemmerich passes. “We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are scarce.” (pg 21) When Paul leaves the hospital after Kemmerich’s death, he seems to lose his sense of humanity and becomes more animalistic. Another moment of Paul’s future is when they are fighting, after the battle Paul states that they seem lost. They are still children and yet they have seen and experienced more than the average man at a much older age. Paul and his small group of comrades realized that they have no hope for their future and they have no idea what they could do after the war. They are stuck in the middle of being a child and an adult. “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men… I believe we are lost.” (pg 123) When Paul returns home because he is on leave, the world is so much different then he remembered. Paul realizes while on leave that even when the war is over, he will not be able to interact with the regular world, since he has lost that feeling and emotion. Even in his home does Paul feel as if he is not meant to be there, as if there is no hope for him to go back to the way things were before the war. “I stand there dumb as before a judge… Words- they do not reach...
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...Fundamental lessons which we can all learn from the bus strike Against the backdrop of the now famous bus strike, there have been efforts undertaken by the following parties: The Singapore Government calling on all parties to voice their grievances through the appropriate channels and a flurry of measures adopted by SMRT in response to public and government sentiment. Whilst the reactions and actions undertaken after the strike are laudable, one can’t help but express concern that the underlying issues of wages, worker’s living conditions and a clear lack of communication channels between all relevant parties have surfaced only via the drastic action of a strike. Indeed, all parties involved have to clearly reflect on the events of the past week and do their utmost to prevent future occurrences of such incidents. Complacency setting in Citing how strikes would affect workforce productivity and deter potential investors, the Singapore Government has long taken a dim view towards strikes and strikes have been few and far between throughout the annals of Singapore’s history. This has and still must be the key driving policy: A zero tolerance towards illegal strikes. In an attempt to maintain the welfare of general workers in Singapore, the National Union Trade Congress, businesses and National Employer’s Federation had been established. Tripartism was vaunted as the the way to progress and to cultivate the symbiotic relationship between businesses, employers and employees...
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...530 Should Public Employees be allowed to strike? Strikes are a movement by employees when they feel their labor is being unappreciated or there is a wrong doing with their pay and possibly retirement plan. This will cause employees to band together and strike. A strike is when employees refuse to do the work that their employer has asked of them. It is usually the last step in labor management negotiations and is something that both sides typically want to avoid. Since when employees go on a strike both sides lose out on something. Employees do not get paid and the employers do not get their productivity done. In history, public employees never had the right to strike and they never struck before the 1960’s. That is the movement that they began to fight for their rights as public employees and it caused a major movement for public employees to stand up for themselves and fight back against the union that was violating their rights as public employees. Until the late 1960s, public employee strikes were illegal in every jurisdiction in the U.S. Yet when the idea took hold and the context was right, hundreds of thousands of public workers struck anyway, violating state laws and court injunctions. And they generally won—achieving recognition and good contracts, and forcing lawmakers to amend state laws to permit public employee bargaining. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/06/inspiration-look-history-public-worker-strikes#sthash.G0co1ed1.dpuf Public employee...
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...COURSE PROJECT Anal Patel UPS STRIKE Date: - 10/10/2011 Table of Content:- INTRODUCTION……………………………….……………………………PAGE 3. BACKGROUND……………………………………………………………...PAGE 3. STRIE SETTLEMENT…………………………………………..………….PAGE 7. RECOMMENDATION / STAND POINT……….………………………….PAGE 10. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………….PAGE 13. REFERENCE…………………………………………………………………PAGE 13. INTRODUCTION:- The strike against United Parcel Service conducted by the Teamsters was seen as both disruptive and successful. It was disruptive to the national shipping patterns and so to business in general, yet the public supported the strikers over the company by a wide margin. This might have changed had the strike continued any longer than it did, but the Teamsters, as led by President Ron Carey, managed to make good use of public sentiment to pressure UPS to settle the strike. From the first, the Teamsters had the high ground given the nature of the dispute and the fact that the public was also concerned about the issue of part-time work and the way companies were using part-time workers to avoid paying full price for full-time employees in the same jobs. UPS said the strike cost them about $650 million in lost business. The union paid about $10 million in strike benefits to members who got $55 a week for manning the picket lines. An analysis of the UPS strike shows that it is a case of hard bargaining in which the Teamsters benefited from being able to generate public support and also from the good fortune...
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