since 1970 Saccawu is the largest union in the retail industry on the basis of the number of workers it represents. Saccawu (South African Catering and Commercial Workers Union) was founded in July 1975 at the beginning stages of the famous Durban Strikes. As an affiliate of Cosatu (Congress of South African Trade Unions) the union was first named Ccawusa (Catering and Commercial Allied Worker Union of South Africa) because of the African ring to the name, which was highlight of the commitment to serve
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Games can be very powerful. Spacewar, Counter Strike, and the News Games are examples of three influential games that had powerful and lasting historical impacts. These three games subverted traditional game concepts, representations, or mechanics. Although some people may view video games purely as a casual source of fun and entertainment, a deeper examination of their messages can reveal what different games tell us about our culture, giving us a better understanding of why games are created
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THE EQUITY OPTIONS STRATEGY GUIDE JANUARY 2001 Table of Contents Introduction Option Terms and Concepts s s s s s s s s s s s s s s 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 What is an Option? Long Short Open Close Leverage and Risk In-the-money, At-the-money, Out-of-the-money Time Decay Expiration Day Exercise Assignment What’s the Net? Early Exercise/Assignment Volatility Long Call Long Put Married Put Protective Put Covered Call Covered Put Bull Call Spread
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Practice Questions (Options) 1. These practice questions are a suplement to the problem sets, and are intended for those of you who want more practice. They are Optional, and are not part of the required material. 2. It is recommended that you look at these problems only after you fully understand how to solve the problem sets, the examples we covered in class, and the ones in the lecture notes. 3. Please note that I have collected these exmples from previous teaching material I have had
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demands, strikes and settlement until there brewed a confrontation culminating in a head-on collision following upon certain unhappy happenings. A total strike ensued whose chain reaction was a whole-sale termination of all employees followed by fresh recruitment of workmen defacto breakdown of the strike and dispute over restoration of the removed workmen. As per the last settlement between the management and the workmen of 4th August, 1972, it was not open to the workmen to resort to a strike till
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Tobago industrial relations climate has been experiencing heightened activity. This has been characterized by the numerous strikes and news reports of the actions and statements of the principal actors involved. The recent TCL strike (Newsday, 2012), statements threatening strike action by PSA president (Guardian, 2010), and threats to the government for a nationwide strike (CARICOM News Network, 2011) all give credence to the concerns of the ECA “that the industrial relations climate will become
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1790’s – 1850’s • Agriculture and National Economy: • Cotton gin spurred slavery in West • Transportation: • Railway, canal, roads • Technology: • Textiles, vulcanizing rubber, wheat reaper, telegraph • Immigration: • Chinese, Irish, Germans (up) • 1860’s - 1940 • Transportation: • Railways increase • Technology: • Telephone, patents, Bell & Edison • Entrepreneurs: • JP Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller • Roaring 20s: • Exports increase • Ford and the car • Tariff law (Fordney’s) -
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1)Sources of Industrial Growth a)Industrial Technologies i)Most impt tech development was new iron + steel production techniques- Henry Bessemer and William Kelly invented process to turn iron to steel, possible to produce large quantities and dimensions for construction, RRs ii)Steel industry emerged in Pennsylvania and Ohio (Pittsburgh notably)- iron industry existed, fuel could be found in PA coal iii)New transportation systems emerged to serve steel industry- freighters for the Great Lakes
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of that. Why? One reason is the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy. Some would contend that unions are not as necessary now as they once were because so many state and federal laws already protect employees. 2. Unions are gearing up to increase their membership Targeting women and minorities, which is ironic because unions have traditionally been controlled by white, blue-collar men who had little interest in seeing women and minorities make gains in the workplace. 4 Major
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increases in wages, improving healthcare and retirement benefits, and job security. Labor relations can be thought of as the working relationship between management and the leaders of the unions. Their cooperation with each other helps to eliminate strikes through collective bargaining, which will ideally be mutually beneficial for both management and workers. It involves the critical skill of arbitration and compromise. According to the text labor relations involves three levels of decision, which
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