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Laissez Faire Middle Aged
1,551 wordsThe last time the World Trade Organization had a major meeting, it was in Singapore, and now we know why. Singapore, of course, is the city-state that accords near-perfect freedom to banks and corporations while jailing political activists and caning messy tenants and people who chew gum in public. When WTO ministers gathered in Singapore in 1997, their business was unimpeded by any outside agitators. (Or, for that matter, any internal dissidents: Advocates for worker rights or environmental sta...
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International Brotherhood Of Teamsters
640 wordsThe International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, is one of the largest trade unions in the world. It was first chartered as the Team Drivers International Union in 1899. The name was changed to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1903. The Teamsters came about like other unions because workers were not protected from economic exploitation or from the consequences of illness, disability, or unemployment. The Teamsters enabled employees to par...
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Why Would Someone Want To Kill Jimmy Hoffa
1,138 wordsWhy would someone want to kill Jimmy Hoffa? Almost in any book you read Jimmy Hoffa was an achiever and set his goals high. He started the union known as the Teamsters and was very well known in politics. The thing that got Hoffa into trouble though was his ties with the mob. He went on trial for many different convictions. The death of Hoffa was a tragedy and a mystery. To this day, we never found out what exactly what happened to Hoffa, even though there are many different theories of his deat...
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Air Traffic Controllers Afl Cio
1,517 wordsRunning head: POST-PATCO ERA VS. UPS AND THE TEAMSTERS Post-PATCO era vs. UPS and The Teamsters Labor Movement Professional Air Traffic Controller Organization (PATCO) captivated Americans in its unsuccessful struggle to win the labor movement. The exposure during that period left a decline in any type of union struggle. In 1997, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) went on a similar movement that took a different turn for American laborers. The results of this movement not only contributed to succ...
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Labor Movement Labor Unions
1,512 words... ude's 115, 000 part- timers) won all major issues. The issues included: 20, 000 full-time job opportunities for part-timers, including 10, 000 new full-time jobs created from existing part-time positions; new limits on subcontracting; the largest-ever wages raises and major increases in pensions under the existing Teamster plans; and new job safety protections (The Teamster, October 1997). At the time of the strike, House Speaker Newt Gingrich attempted to use tactics similar to those applie...
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Democratic Party Corporate America
819 wordsUnions and Politics Today and in the Future in the U. S. Big labor sometimes seems up against the ropes, a punchy political heavyweight well beyond its prizefighting prime. But it's still a vicious counter puncher when it is backed into a corner. While hardly anyone believes the elections of 1998 are a make-or-break test of big labor's staying power -- and some even argue that it has little motivation for pulling out all the stops this time around -- the midterm elections were seen by many as a ...
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Afl Cio Farm Workers
332 wordsCesar E. Chavez founded and led the first successful farm workers union in U. S. history. In 1952, Cesar was laboring in apricot orchards outside San Jose when he met Fred Ross, an organizer for the community Service Organization, a barrio-based self-help group sponsored by Chicago-based Saul Alinkseys Industrial areas foundation. Within several months Cesar was a full-time organizer with CSO, coordinating voter registration drives, battling racial and economic discrimination against Chicano res...
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Cosa Nostra Crime Syndicate
2,501 wordsChicago 1978 This paper examines the goings-on of the Outfit in Chicago in the year 1978. The overriding theme of the year seemed to be the Chicago outfit s connection with Las Vegas. This connection seems to come up over and over in the articles I read. This was also the year James T. Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno become a FBI informer. I will give a sample of what was going on in Chicago each month of the year 1978. Not all that much happened in January of 1978 according to the newspaper. The art...
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Air Traffic Controllers Afl Cio
3,085 wordsRunning head: POST-PATCO ERA VS. UPS AND THE TEAMSTER Post-PATCO era vs. UPS and The Teamsters? Labor Movement Tonya D. Moore University of Sarasota Abstract Professional Air Traffic Controller Organization (PATCO) captivated Americans in its unsuccessful struggle to win the labor movement. The exposure during that period left a decline in any type of union struggle. In 1997, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) went on a similar movement that took a different turn for American laborers. The result...
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Afl Cio Wagner Act
819 wordsThe modern American Labor Movement grew from an economic depression into a surging organization that has seen extensive corruption. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of an economy that was in shambles. During his Presidency, he enacted several new programs that were part of his New Deal. One of the programs that were passed was the National Recovery Administration. In this program, Section 7 a specifically placed on the statute books the rights of unions to exist and negotiate...
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