...act of protest, the staff from two terminals at Heathrow Airport in London went on a 24-hour strike that cost BA £40 million and 100,000 customers. The general consensus from commentators was that BA management made a huge mistake in launching such an unpopular initiative at the start of their busiest season. In addition, they did not take caution with regard to the attitudes of their employees, who had already reached a high level of bitterness and anger over the lack of consultation, poor wages and a general dissatisfaction with management. The end result of the wildcat strike, which was reached after extensive talks with representatives from three unions, included a delay in the introduction of the swipe card system and a 3% pay raise for administrative staff. Questions Each change perspective gives a slightly different insight into the key issues that resulted in the BA wildcat strike. When evaluating the situation from the organization development perspective, it is important to systematically evaluate the organization as a whole with specific emphasis on attitudes and behaviors. Had the managers of BA begun their change initiative in this way, they would have understood the negative beliefs held by the organization members that would be affected by the change. The case study said “‘the heart of the issue is that the workforce wants respect’; it was not until the wildcat strike that CEO Rod Eddington was even aware that ‘there was a respect deficit to be plugged’” (Palmer...
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...[pic] LAW529: Employment and Labour Law Take-Home Exam Professor Pnina Alon-Shenker Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Submissions Due: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by 08:00 am. Students must submit assignments on time. Failure to do so results in a grade of zero. Material Covered: Labour Law (weeks 8-11): Chapters 2-5 (Olivo’s textbook), including lectures, discussions, cases, and PowerPoint slides. Submission Requirements: Students must submit their assignments to Turnitin.com through the course Blackboard site. Students must also deposit a hard copy of their assignment in the instructor’s mailbox on the 7th floor of TRSM building (mailbox room, mailbox #101). Please DO NOT submit your assignment via email. Please DO NOT submit your assignment in class or in the instructor’s office. Please DO NOT submit your assignments in folders, binders or plastic covers. Length: Papers should not be longer than 4 pages (double spaced) excluding a cover page. Format: 8.5” x 11” paper, Times New Roman 12 point font, within minimum 1” margins. Any pages beyond 4 pages will not be read nor considered in marking the assignment. Term Value of this assignment: 25% Assignment Requirements: Please answer the questions in an organized and coherent way. Please use headings and if appropriate sub-headings. Introduction and conclusion are not required. You are not required to use external sources. Please note that collaboration or group work is forbidden. You...
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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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...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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...Kusanku no Sai 0° true is center facing forward . = stage left = stage right = face rear. Retract(ed) = sai pointing to elbow. Punch with butt. Pointed = sai pointing outward. Stab or slash with point. Bold = Kiai. 1. Musubi dachi - Sais are retracted– rei, bring sais to chest crossing. Double punch block downwards coming into Heiko dachi. 2. Step LT 45° Zenkutsu dachi, Mawashi uke High LT low RT 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...
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...Texas Gulf Sulphur and Insider Trading Texas Gulf Sulphur is a company large mining company. In 1957, it was the world’s largest provider of sulphur. In the same year, TGS began an exploration plan to study area named the Canadian Shield. This was a mineral-rich zone. Six years later, TGS began drilling several test sites. TGS was optimistic about the area after the laboratory analysis. As a result, the company created a plan to acquire the land in the Canadian Shield known as Kidd 55. The company desired to control rumors about the acquisition of the land. In November 1963, the president of TGS instructed that the members of the exploration group to must keep the information confidential. Later that year, the company performed a more comprehensive investigation the core from the first tests. The results from this investigation were said to be “remarkable.” In March 1964, TGS successfully acquired the land, and the company chose to continue test drilling to create a more accurate estimation of the size of 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...
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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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.... 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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...Carlo Macato, John Martin Submitted to: Dr. Rey Lugtu I. SYNTHESIS One Tuesday, two spot welders of Accel Motors took matters into their own hands when they felt that the grievance process for transferring their supervisor was too slow. William Biggs and Larry Strong decided to shut off the electric power supply to an auto assembly line halting the production. This wildcat strike seemed to receive support from their co-workers when they started shouting encouragement for the two. Alarmed with the escalating situation, the plant manager met with the supervisor in question, Mr. Dan Brown, and a union steward to get a clearer picture of the issue. Dan Brown explained that transferring him would only send a message that the company would give in to any complaints of any worker with a grudge. On the other side, the conversation with the union steward revealed that there are other issues on the plant, like the bad cafeteria food and the unnerving 100-degree heat in the metal shop. The steward commented that this wildcat strike could accomplish the same as a full-blown strike. He implied that the protest could make employees dictate the company’s problem solving agendas as well as undermine its authority over decision-making priorities. Now, the plant manager of Accel Motors found himself in a conundrum to solve the idle assembly line while considering what the supervisor and the union steward said to him. Each minute on the idle assembly...
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...From each of the change perspectives, organizational development, sense-making, change management, contingency, and processual, identify the key issues to understanding the wildcat strike. * With organizational development, the British Airways management unsuccessful circulated the information about the new procedure execution for the swipe cards. It is obvious that British Airways has issues in personnel with using the clock-in method. This issue certainly resulted in staffing issues with the company. In the case study it clearly shows that administration was very negligent in operating the company effectively. * Regarding sense making, British Airways choosing to use the swipe cards is a rational strategy because it will be successful in the long run. The swipe cards would ultimately protect the company from untruth workers and illegal entries for the company. * With change management the change was versioned as a successful policy and British Airways finally considered the changes essential. * Contingency, British Airways does have the option to replace the strike workers. The most common choice for management it to bring in a consultant who specializes in escalating aggressive unions and drive stabilizing the workplace environment. In the processual portion, the communal bargaining of negation was achieved. Discuss the change perspective that provides the best way of understanding the swipe card issue. This work force is already uneasy about their...
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...Labour Day, or the end of the summer holidays as most students know it as, is more than that, although most Canadians forget the fact. It is a day to celebrate how far we have moved from before the Toronto Typographical Union Strike, to today’s average day white picket fence working man’s 9-5, and all of the history, heartbreak and “striking” facts in between. The history of Labour Day started with the Toronto Typographical Union when in March 1872 they went on strike when its demands for a shorter work week were ignored. A couple of weeks later a parade was organized in downtown Toronto to support them with ten thousand participants. George Brown hit them with a lawsuit because at this time union activity was under the criminal code. 24 union members were locked up, much to the distaste of Canada, who protested so strongly even Prime Minister Sir John A McDonald spoke out saying how he would repeal the barbarous anti-union laws. The Trades Union Act was passed by Parliament on June 14, 1872, and as one can imagine, parades went on in the later weeks. Every year this happened until the celebration was recognized by Prime Minister John Thompson, making Labour Day a Federal National holiday. In 1889, it started to become well known about many workers getting hurt on the job, so after many protests and less than pleasant letters, the federal government established the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital, which ended up condemning the oppressive working conditions...
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...the way an employee looked or has a personal issue with an employee, he/she could fire the employee if he pleases. It was really difficult for a worker to walk up to management to state complains or concerns. The U.S post office department’s management at the time lacked organization and was outdated. The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was a ground breaking two-week strike, which started on March 18, 1970. At this time, postal workers were not allowed by law to engage in collective bargaining especially in issues concerning wages. The postal strike of 1970 focused on higher wages and better working conditions, postal workers first started getting hit with wage decreases back during the depression of the 1930s. Government workers at that time got a 25% wage cut under the executive order by Franklin Roosevelt. As stated above, things were done by executive order or acts of congress pertaining to government workers including postal workers. The wages been paid at that time was not enough for employees to fend for their family and so most workers were living with the aid of government support like food stamps. According to Tara Lee, one of the leaders of the strike in New York, she only got a pay raise once, a 9 cent the first year she worked for the postal service which made her pay go from $2.95 an hour to $3.o4 an hour. it took 21 years for an employee to get to top pay. In 1970, full time employees started out at $6,176 per annum ($34,641 in 2010 dollars) and after 21 years of...
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...Era. The Reconstruction Era was the period after the Civil War when Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to reenter the Union. As the United States recovered, the Reconstruction Era faded away and industrialization took hold in the healing nation. Industrialization brought about the Gilded Age, a time period of rapid economic growth and corrupt politics. People responded differently to the swift change to industrialization in the Gilded Age. In response to the rapid industrialization western farmers retaliated politically with the birth of the Populist Party while urban industrial workers responded to industrialization with the formation of labor unions and strikes. Western farmers responded to industrialization politically by forming the Populist Party. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the United States experienced an influx of immigrants. The arrival of more immigrants contributed to the rapidly growing industrial era as well as the population. Farmers moved out west to get away from the growing cities and to find more land to produce food and products for the growing population. The Homestead Act enabled more farmers to move out west in hopes of having a better life. The General Land Office gave away 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to live on the land for five years. Once the five-year period ended the settlers were able to purchase the land. The construction of the Transcontinental...
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...The workers tried to talk with the company's owner George Pullman, but he would refuse to speak with them. On May 11, 1894, the great Pullman railroad strike had begun. The ARU and Pullman workers began to come up with a plan, one was to refuse to hitch Pullman cars to trains and unhitch the ones that were already on them. Another plan was to boycott which meant that ARU officials would refuse to use Pullman cars until the railroad severed their ties with the Pullman company. On June 22nd the ARU sent motion to initiate a boycott unless they agreed to arbitration by June 26th. Pullman refused and by June 30th 125,000 workers had walked off and 29 railroads had quit work rather than handle Pullman cars. With wildcat strikes breakout out on most lines and the president upset, Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld then became concerned the riots would spire out of control. Due to this reason, Altgeld sent 9 militia groups with orders to quell any rioting and clear the way for...
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...The Postal Strike of 1970 was the principle nationwide strike of federal specialists. It began in New York City on March 18, 1970, and quickly spread to more than 200,000 letter bearers, collaborators, and mail handlers nationwide. The walkout was incited by the poor pay earned by urban postal workers and the qualification in pay rates between the government and private parts. In spite of the way that the strike completed inside one week, it was responsible for an amazing overhaul of the relationship between the federal government and sorted out work. The wildcat improvement shot out with such suddenness that Congress, the Administration and the power of seven postal unions were not capable move quickly or feasibly to recuperate the men on their occupations. Union and Administration powers introduced in Washington toward the end of a week back, yet the illegal strike, which started in New York City, quickly spread to enveloping zones and relentlessly began strolling north to New England and westward the country over, hitting Akron, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Dearborn, St. Paul, Detroit, Denver and San Francisco—and various more diminutive gatherings between. By week's end the strike had either shut down or shortened organization in more than 30 imperative urban groups, was at the same time spreading....
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