...1. Within today’s economy it is very easy to lose everything 2. The US leads all industrialized nations in numbers of homeless women and children. 3. Homelessness is hurting the American family, to many children are homeless this is not just a problem with older adults. 4. Most children in these types of situations are prone to a life of crime or a sense of loneliness. 5. Most children in these types of situations are prone to a life of crime or a sense of loneliness. 6. While that number is equally divided among males and females, the majority of them are between the ages of 15 and 17. 7. Family shelters and programs that fight homelessness could put a lot of these problems to a halt. 8. To get a better idea on how this organization could help fight homelessness in Philadelphia, I've spoken to a few families who are homeless. 9. Ultimately we must encourage citizens to get involved in addressing the challenges of homelessness. I’m still re-writing a lot of this project, I gave it to me brother to read. He gave me a few suggestions on the paper, and what he would do to change it. I’m still trying to get that good conclusion, which has been the hard part. I still don’t think my paper is ready for me to send it in to Kaplan for a review. But I plan on working on it until the last day I have to submit the project. When was the last time you walked around downtown Philadelphia Pa.? Was it recently, a few days ago, how about a few months; or is it...
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...Labor Relations -Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector I. Union Membership II. Union Organization A. Unfair Labor Practices B. “Friendly Societies” III. Public Sector Unions A. Early Organization 1. Ten hour workday 2. Postal Workers 3. Boston Police Strike B. Legislation 1. Wagner Act 2. New York Executive Order 49 IV. Collective Bargaining A. Wisconsin B. Executive Order 10988 C. Taylor Law D. PATCO E. Opposition F. Advocacy V. Summary VI. Bibliography Labor Relations Today, union membership is at an all time low. It has been steadily declining since the 1980’s. Private sector union membership has been affected the most, while that of the public sector has remained relatively strong. Collective bargaining allows employees a voice regarding their wages, benefits and working conditions. The need for unions was a direct result of the unfair labor practices employed during the Industrial Revolution beginning in the late 18th century and continuing on into the early 20th century. During the Industrial Revolution, government adopted a hands-off attitude towards business. Therefore, business owners could treat their workers however they wished. It is largely due to the unsafe conditions, abuse of workers, and the employees’ lack of a voice over their employment that...
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...aviation. * The ACC requested the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) to form a task force to predict future needs of the ATC system. RTCA formed SC-31 (1948). * SC-31 report recommended a common ATC system be developed to serve the needs of military and civilian pilots. * In the late 1950’s air traffic controllers were leaving the FAA because of long working hours and low pay. * Early 1960’s labor unrest began to appear again within the FAA. Several early unions were formed. * The FAA realized it was one of the few federal agencies whose operation was vital to the well being of the country, but whose workforce was permitted to unionize. * In 1963 the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was formed. * On April 1, 1967, a cabinet level coordinating agency became a reality, the Department of Transportation (DOT) was created. * The Federal Aviation Agency was merged into the new DOT and became the Federal Aviation Administration. * The National Transportation Safety...
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...the 40th President of the United States of America, with his presidential term running from 1981 to 1989. Ronald Reagan left behind various legacies throughout his tenure as President, which included drastic reductions of taxes, and stricter control of government spending, allowing him to succeed in managing inflation and stimulate the growth of the American economy. Reagan was known as the president who implemented the modern war on drugs, pioneering the “just say no” campaign and enacting the greatest expansion of zero tolerance legislation in history. Reagan was also known for being harsh against labor unions, with the most significant act being in 1981 with the blanket termination of professional air traffic controller organization (PATCO) members, who despite federal law, walked off the job and refused to end their strike and return to work. But Reagan may be most notably remembered for being the president who ended the cold war. President Reagan adopted an economic strategy known as “stagflation” in which he implemented drastic cuts of income taxes from approximately 70% to 28%, which effected the upper most income tax rate, and the corporate tax rate. These cuts, combined with reductions in government spending, allowed him to help control the supply of money and overall inflation. These policies became commonly known as “reaganonmics” where many of his economic theories focused on the supply side of the economic ladder, relying on tax cuts for citizens and government...
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...as a president, not being from the United States and of course at the time not even living in this country, I did not live through any of the policies he put in place or took away, therefore I found it difficult to make a decision based purely off of what I could read watch or look at. My spin on this will be apparent at the end of my paper Regan tried hard to cut many departments within the government, the department of energy, and also the department of education. Legislators wouldn’t allow that to happen so he cut the budgets to them. I believe that’s why some of our education programs now are a mess. When his secretary of transportation Drew Lewis opposed an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization (PATCO), Regan fired them all 11,500 air traffic controllers had to be replaced and trained. Regan had ordered Drew Lewis to do this, the action of Regan cost billions and took several years to recover from, thinking about it how Regan avoided an air disaster I don’t know. How a man who held a union card could be so opposed to them is a mystery. Ronald Regan was also again affirmative action and over time he cut budgets to the civil rights department and there was less African Americans hired into official positions, he didn’t seem to care about all the progress that had been made by presidents before him. By 1981 “Reaganomics” was in full swing, he had managed to seize political initiative, redefine the public agenda and managed to get most of...
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...F.A.A. REPORTS 50% FAILURE RATE FOR FIRST AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS' By Richard Witkin, CLASS SINCE STRIKE The first class of 72 students being trained to replace striking air traffic Published: November 8, 1981 * Facebook * Twitter * Google+ * Email * Share * Print * Reprints * Mark Weaver, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's training academy in Oklahoma City, said Friday that while the figure was "unusual," it had been matched once or twice in recent years. Edwin Harris, the academy superintendent, also noted that the students in the first post-strike class, and others now at the academy, had been drawn from prestrike lists of applicants. He said it had been expected that students from these depleted lists would have more difficulty than would students drawn from the top of lists put together in a recruitment drive that began right after the walkout. The first of the new recruits will begin their training next month. Mr. Weaver said that in addition to the 36 who failed in the first post-strike class, 12 others had dropped out for personal reasons. But he said it was expected that some of the students would re-enter the school later. 11,500 Controllers Dismissed The training program has been vigorously expanded by the aviation agency to carry out the Reagan Administration's plan to rebuild the air traffic control system to its prestrike level without rehiring any of the 11,500 controllers dismissed for participating...
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...Mod 7 * ------------------------------------------------- Question 13.6 out of 3.6 points | | | Prior to 1946, the airports of this country were financedAnswer | | | | | Selected Answer: | by state, county, or municipal governments. | | | | | Question 23.6 out of 3.6 points | | | Which of the following statements concerning the Federal Airport Act of 1946 is not correct?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Smaller cities greatly benefited from the federal financial support. | | | | | Question 33.6 out of 3.6 points | | | The Airport and Airway Revenue Act of 1970Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | imposed taxes on all users of the airport and airway system. | | | | | Question 43.6 out of 3.6 points | | | Under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1982, theAnswer | | | | | Selected Answer: | All of the above | | | | | Question 53.6 out of 3.6 points | | | The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was created by theAnswer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Department of Transportation Act. | | | | | Question 63.6 out of 3.6 points | | | Which of the following was not a reason for passage of the act creating the Department of Transportation?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | To promote the development of civil aeronautics. | | | | | Question 73.6 out of 3.6 points | | | The NTSB is charged with all of the following...
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...I know I’m dating myself by writing this, but I remember the middle class. I grew up in an automaking town in the 1970s, when it was still possible for a high school graduate — or even a high school dropout — to get a job on an assembly line and earn more money than a high school teacher. “I had this student,” my history teacher once told me, “a real chucklehead. Just refused to study. Dropped out of school, a year or so later, he came back to see me. He pointed out the window at a brand-new Camaro and said, ‘That’s my car.’ Meanwhile, I was driving a beat-up station wagon. I think he was an electrician’s assistant or something. He handed light bulbs to an electrician.” In our neighbors’ driveways, in their living rooms, in their backyards, I saw the evidence of prosperity distributed equally among the social classes: speedboats, Corvette Stingrays, waterbeds, snowmobiles, motorcycles, hunting rifles, RVs, CB radios. I’ve always believed that the ’70s are remembered as the Decade That Taste Forgot because they were a time when people without culture or education had the money to not only indulge their passions, but flaunt them in front of the entire nation. It was an era, to use the title of a 1975 sociological study of a Wisconsin tavern, of blue-collar aristocrats. That all began to change in the 1980s. The recession at the beginning of that decade – America’s first Great Recession – was the beginning of the end for the bourgeois proletariat. Steelworkers showed...
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...Brett Kim Paper 1 Professor Jack McGrory PA 530 5/23/2015 The Need to Strike Introduction The pubic sector in this country is currently under attack. Wages are stagnating, and benefit plans are getting slashed. It used to be a wide known fact that public sectors employees earn less than private sector employees, but in the public sector you earn better benefits and have better job security. This is no longer the case as Republican led legislators are fighting to cut public sector benefits and the right of public sector employees to collectively bargain. Public sector unions are still very strong, and the union members need to trust these unions to bargain for them. To put the union topic in perspective, back in 1974, most of the biggest unions--except for the National Education Association--were private-sector unions. However, by 2007, most of the biggest unions were public-sector union. Second, both the biggest union in 2007 (the NEA) and the fifth-biggest union in 2007 (the UFCW) were substantially larger than the first- and fifth-biggest unions in 1974. This trend has shifted as we see almost no private sector unions, and the ones in the public sector constantly under attack. Throughout this paper, I will argue for the need for public sector employees to be allowed to strike as part of the negotiation process. I will also go over the history of collectively bargaining laws, how they apply to the public sector, and talk about unions in general throughout the process...
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...Nov 3, 2010 Jack Nelson's Problem An article for Human Resources Management course, Gary Dessler 12/e, page: 52 1st Question: What do you think is causing some of the problems in the bank’s home office and branches? - There is not any communication between branch supervisors, home offices, and other branches. The supervisor employ their own employee without any communication with the main branch. The major problem is high employee turnover, actually there can be many reason for turnover, however in the text this is a result of when an employee would be hired, they would be resign another employee. In additionally, Ruth Johnson has been working in a home office for two months, howeever she does not know what the machine called she used and what it did. That means, there is not any HR to asist her about that machine. 2nd Question: Do you think setting up an HR unit in the main office would help? - Setting up an HR unit in the main office would help the managers. Through the HR unit the bank can employ the educated bankers and reduce turnover ratios. I mean, because of HR unit will work for supervisors’ and line managers’ needs, the employee which apply the job probably educated by HR unit about the which machine or computer software does he/ she have to. As a result of HR unit, turnovers decrase and efficiency increases in the bank. 3rd Question: What specific functions should an HR unit carry out? What HR functions would then be carried out by supervisors...
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