...List of Unions Affiliated with the AFL-CIO Class, You'd be surprised at how many occupations and organizations are unionized. Here's a list of Unions Affiliated with the AFL-CIO (if you want to link to their contact information or website click on the link at the bottom of this message): Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) American Federation of Teachers (AFT American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) American Postal Workers Union (APWU) American Radio Association (ARA) American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA) Associated Actors and Artistes of America (4As) Actors' Equity Association (AEA) American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) Screen Actors Guild (SAG) The Guild of Italian American Actors (GIAA) Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) California School Employees Association (CSEA) Communications Workers of America (CWA) Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GMP) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage...
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...Legal Status of Unions Legal Status of Unions The history of the American labor movement coincides with the development of labor unions in the United States, from the initial local craft unions like the Federal Society of Journeyman Cordwainers (shoemakers), to the formation of national unions such as the National Labor Union (NLU) and the Knights of Labor, creation of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and the Congress of International Organizations (CIO), the merger of the AFL-CIO, and its breakup through the defection of the national unions that formed the Change to Win (CTW) coalition (Fossum, 2012, pp. 27-34, 53-54). Paralleling the union development was a series of national labor legislation: Railway Labor Act (1926), Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932) legitimizing collective bargaining, National Industrial Recovery Act (1933), ruled unconstitutional in 1935, National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act, 1935) establishing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Taft-Hartley Act (1947), and Landrum-Griffin Act (1959) (Fossum, 2012, pp. 63-75). This paper will examine this evolution of the legal status of American unions and what union activities were restricted by laws and courts; the major contributing causes to the failure of uplift unionism; advantages and disadvantages of a business union vs. labor political party approach; leading personalities contributing to the definition of labor relations in the United States; and the most effective union leaders during the...
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...3/29/2014 1 CIO Organization Memo Before you begin this assignment, be sure you have read the “Wobbly Wheels Case Study,” as well as Chapter 21, Service Management, and Chapter 22, Balancing IT’s Workload. You will also need to review any feedback you received on your IT Strategic Plan assignments. Purpose of this Assignment This assignment gives you the opportunity to apply the course concepts to address the organizational changes needed to evolve the information technology (IT) department into a true CIO organization to support the Wobbly Wheels Distribution Company (WW). This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcome to enable you to: explain the roles and responsibilities of an information technology department to support an organization’s IT strategy CIO Organization Memo For this assignment, you will assume the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at WW (i.e., you are Carol). Since you are WW’s first CIO, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has asked you for a plan for the organizational changes you need to make. One of the first things you realize is that the organization that exists is just an ‘IT Department’ and you know that what WW needs, and has hired you to do, is to create an organization that fulfills the broad responsibilities of a Chief Information Officer. You know that your proposal needs to be convincing to the CFO in order for you to get the resources you need. Assignment You will develop a memorandum addressed to the CFO...
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...FOR THE CORPORATE To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/cis-505-wk-3-assignment-2-requirements-for-the-corporate/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM CIS 505 WK 3 ASSIGNMENT 2 REQUIREMENTS FOR THE CORPORATE CIS 505 WK 3 Assignment 2 - Requirements for the Corporate Computing Function Your new corporate CIO has devised a nine-point mission statement for the company. As one of the operations managers in the department, you have received a memo on the new policy and an associated task. The CIO wants to address the new strategy in a three-phase rollout plan and wants your feedback on LAN and MAN technology. Refer to Table 3.1 in Chapter 3 of the textbook for the nine points of the mission statement. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: 1.From Table 3.1, speculate why the fifth point, “Meet information requirements of management”, is in the CIO’s list of nine (9) points. 2.Imagine only three (3) points are to be rolled out in the first phase. Evaluate each point to determine the most important three (3) for the initial rollout phase. 3.Recommend one (1) additional point the CIO should include in order to ensure the topic of security is addressed in the mission statement. Explain your rationale for the inclusion. 4.Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed,...
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...Corporate Memo Student ENG/221 February 30, 2014 Instructor Corporate Memo Memorandum To: CIO Jeff Bridges CC: CIO Support Team From: Student Date: 6/30/2014 ------------------------------------------------- Re: Choices for Web Conferencing Software Choosing the Best Available Software There are many web conference choices available for almost any purpose. Our team would benefit greatly from most of them, but their value varies greatly by cost, usability, and resource usage. I have selected three different programs for your review. Software Selection Firstly, all of our onsite users are currently using the Microsoft Windows operating system. Some users located offsite use Macintosh OS X. This would have presented a problem in the past, but luckily almost every choice today allows for use in both cases. Software Number 1: Cisco WebEx This software is excellent. It allows for almost any application that could be desired in a business setting. The price is $19.99 a month for the annual plan, it allows for HD video conferencing, desktop sharing, mobile phone access, remote control, VOIP, and can be initiated by a single host computer. Software Number 2: Adobe Connect This software also allows for basically anything we could expand to use. It’s price is $45.00 a month per host. The service offers HD and SD video conferencing, desktop sharing, mobile phone access, remote control, VOIP, great document sharing support, and like all others listed here, a virtual shareable whiteboard...
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...WOBBLY WHEELS | November 29 2014 | | Memo | Contents Introduction and Purpose: 2 Leadership Philosophy: 2 Current IT department Structure: 4 New CIO organization: 5 Key Services: 6 New CIO Organization Structure: 6 Key Milestones: 8 Conclusion: 9 References 10 To: Chief Financial Officer From: Chief Information Officer Date: November 29, 2014 RE: Wobbly Wheels IT Organizational Changes Introduction and Purpose: Over the past few years growth, of WW has not increased and it has remained stagnant due to the slow growth of the economy. In order to improve the growth of the organization, a few IT organizational changes are required that will help streamline the internal processes for WW to improve the overall business production and increase profit margin. Overall business can be improved by improving the current business operations, changing the roles and responsibilities of the staff members, upgrading to the new technology systems and the implementation of an IT portfolio management system. Leadership Philosophy: The leadership philosophy of the organization is to grow our business by meticulously serving the logistics needs of our customers offering excellence and value in everything that we do. Inspire our people and business partners to do their best, offering opportunities for personal development and success. Maintain a financially strong company that strives to give a competitive return to our shareholders. Our mission is to lead by...
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...Employee’s Security Vulnerabilities and the Affects on Organization’s Information Technology University Maryland University College Employee’s Security Vulnerabilities and the Affects on Organization’s Information Technology Cyber security vulnerabilities and threats are real and constant. Information technology breakthroughs have given our adversaries cheaper and often effective cyber weapons to harm U.S. computer networks and systems (Gen Alexander, 2011). Unfortunately, our adversaries are not our greatest vulnerability to cyber security or cyber space. Cyber security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users. Cyber space is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. (Ruquet, 2011). The government has been coordinating with private organizations and the public sector to protect information technology. They have been working to detect, prevent, and mitigate cyber threats and vulnerabilities. There are multiple vulnerabilities which adversely affect information technology but this paper will focus on the human factor. Information...
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... | |Project Phase |Project Activities |Associated Deliverables |Typical | | | | |Responsible Parties | |Commitment |obtain sponsorship, scoping, planning,| commitment doc | Project Sponsor | | |budgeting, obtaining commitment, |project plan/budget |Working Clients (line managers) | | |defining roles and responsibilities, |scorecard; metrics |IT Leadership (CIO) | | |project kickoff |change process |Project Manager | | | | |Technical Specialists | |Project Planning | |Analysis |detailed business requirements | project coordination | Project Manager | | |gathering; initial involvement of the |business requirements |Bus. Analyst | | |Quality Assurance and IT Customer...
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...Company Description Microsoft's ambitions are anything but small. The world's #1 software company provides a variety of products and services, including its ubiquitous Windows PC operating systems and Office software suite. Microsoft also makes video game consoles (Xbox), CRM applications (Microsoft Dynamics), server and storage software, and digital music players (Zune). The company has used acquisitions to bulk up its presence in markets such as online advertising, mobile devices, and enterprise software. The company makes more than half of its sales in the US. Management style From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it. He gained a reputation for being distant to others; as early as 1981 an industry executive complained in public that "Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls."[38] As an executive, Gates met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers. Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally combative, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.[39][40] He often interrupted presentations with such comments as, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!"[41] and, "Why don't you just give up...
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...IT Decision Wobbly Wheels LTD IT Decision Wobbly Wheels LTD Table of Contents I. Project Description II. Strategic Alignment III. IT Portfolio Alignment IV. IT Architecture X. Benefits XI. Requirements XII. Cost Estimation XIII. Performance Measures Project Description An employee scheduling system is used to plan all the tasks allotted to the employees. All the employees are assigned assignments through this system and will allow the organization understand and calculate the performance of the employees. This system will sustain a complete log of the tasks assigned to personnel and in case there is any change in the development of the work then it will be automatically managed within the system. Strategic Alignment Employee scheduling system will help the organization to achieve its business strategic objectives and IT strategies. Since the employee scheduling system is directly connected with maintaining the schedules of the employiees, and one of the key business objectives is to reduce delivery times. Another business strategy is to improve the percentage of loaded miles, however without employee scheduling, this objective is not possible. Another crucial objective is to provide the customer accurate delivery times. Managing the task of the employee will solve the objective of the delivery time. Another objective is to provide the customers the best facilities and this can be done only when the employees of the business are managed in the finest manner...
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...Business Communication Trends Paper Jennifer Amsler University of Phoenix COM/285 – Business Communications March 2, 2010 Paul Frise, Ph.D. Business Communication Trends Paper Most of my current communications on a daily basis [Wordiness: "on a daily basis" is not different from writing simply "daily"] are with a 3 [Write out numbers under 10] ½ year old, so I would say that business communications play a less significant role in my day-to-day activities at work than in past situations. However, before I was a stay-at-home mom [Avoid this term in academic writing unless in a quote (write out "mother")] , I worked for a large university’s school of medicine program where [If not referring to a place, use "in which"] I communicated in many ways with students, faculty, staff and [Check punctuation--insert a comma before this word if this is the last in a list of more than two--or if it begins a new clause] vendors. When we [Use "we," "us," or "our" to mean yourself and coauthors, not general humanity (or yourself and the reader)] communicate, we attempt to transmit ideas. We select words, order them into sentences and connect the sentences to build paragraphs...
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...BIS 261 Week 1 ilab Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/bis-261-week-1-ilab/ Please you only accept the assignment if you can do in 4 hours and 30 mnts STEP 1: Review background information Review the case study on Acme Medical Data Storage LLC, given in the Scenario/Summary section above, paying careful attention to the characteristics of the company and its IS projects. NOTE: This is an individual, not a team, iLab. In your review, make notes specifying how you would rate the following characteristics of the company and project. These notes will not be turned in, but you will use them in conducting your analysis in Step 2 and preparing your memo in Step 3. 1. Is theproject technologyextremely stable, moderately stable, or experimental? 2. At the start of the project, are theproject requirementswell known, partially known, or mostly unknown (i.e., experimental)? 3. Is theproject domainheavily regulated, moderately regulated, or lightly regulated by government or other outside agencies? 4. Is thesize of the organizationlarge, mid-sized, or small? 5. Is theorganizational culturebureaucratic, mixed, or entrepreneurial? 6. Is theorganization's competitive environmentslow-paced, moderately paced, or fast-paced? STEP 2: Analyze SDLC suitability Based on the information given in the case study, analyze the suitability of a specific Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model for Acme Medical Data Storage LLC: • If the last digit of your DSI Number...
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...BIS 261 Week 1 ilab Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/bis-261-week-1-ilab/ Please you only accept the assignment if you can do in 4 hours and 30 mnts STEP 1: Review background information Review the case study on Acme Medical Data Storage LLC, given in the Scenario/Summary section above, paying careful attention to the characteristics of the company and its IS projects. NOTE: This is an individual, not a team, iLab. In your review, make notes specifying how you would rate the following characteristics of the company and project. These notes will not be turned in, but you will use them in conducting your analysis in Step 2 and preparing your memo in Step 3. 1. Is theproject technologyextremely stable, moderately stable, or experimental? 2. At the start of the project, are theproject requirementswell known, partially known, or mostly unknown (i.e., experimental)? 3. Is theproject domainheavily regulated, moderately regulated, or lightly regulated by government or other outside agencies? 4. Is thesize of the organizationlarge, mid-sized, or small? 5. Is theorganizational culturebureaucratic, mixed, or entrepreneurial? 6. Is theorganization's competitive environmentslow-paced, moderately paced, or fast-paced? STEP 2: Analyze SDLC suitability Based on the information given in the case study, analyze the suitability of a specific Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model for Acme Medical Data Storage LLC: • If the last digit of your DSI Number...
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...beat. Much of the credit for the airline's enduring success goes to CIO Herb Kelleher, an affable, hard-driving leader whose fun-loving personality pervades the entire organization, top to bottom. After all, how many airlines have the ticker symbol LUV or paint Seaworld's "Shamu the Whale" on a jetliner? The history of Southwest reflects its CEO's tenacity. Kelleher had a law practice in San Antonio when a client suggested starting a discount airline to link three Texas cities. After five years of legal battles due to competitors' objectionsâ�"before deregulation opened the skies to anything-goes competition and pricingâ�"southwest finally got off the ground in 1971. To keep airfares low, the start-up avoided extras such as meal service and got planes in and out of the gate in twenty minutes or less. The airline now serves dozens of cities across the United States using the original formula of low prices, low costs, and high productivity to keep profits high. In fact, Southwest's operating margins are now three times higher than the industry average. Kelleher knows that other airlines can buy the same planes and fly the same routes, even set the same prices. What they can't imitate, he pointedly notes, is Southwest's legendary team spirit. The workforce of 30,000 is fiercely loyal to Kelleher and the company, pitching in to get things done on time and within budget. Consider the reaction when Kelleher wrote a memo warning employees that rising fuel prices threatened the airline's...
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...Origin of Conflict Internal reports have detailed hundreds of technical issues and outages. The Electronic Medical Records system of Kaiser Permente has been nothing short of an IT project gone awry. Questions began to rise when Cliff Dodd, the company’s CIO, resigned. Dodd stepped down January 14, 2010 after another Kaiser employee, Justin Deal, sent a memo to every company worker warning of technological and financial repercussions related to the rollout of the nearly $4 billion system from Epic Systems Corp. Deal said he also sent letters to Kaiser management expressing his concerns. But in internal memos, officials said they investigated those concerns and denied that the implementation of the Health Connect system has been a failure. The system is suppose to give more than 100,000 of Kaiser’s physicians and employees instant access to the medical records of some 8.6 million patients, along with e-messaging capability, computerized order entry and electronic prescribing. In addition, the system is suppose to integrate appointment scheduling, registration and billing functions and will offer various features to Kaiser members through KP.org. A power outage on May 9, 2009 at Kaiser’s data center in Corona, California, lasted for 55 hours and 7 minutes and affected the ability of numerous health care facilities to access the Health Connect system. This outage affected every Kaiser Permente region. Providers/clinicians across KP would not have access to medical information...
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