...have started in some parts like los angeles. Teachers strike:TSC warned teachers that they had contract 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...
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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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...530 Should Public Employees be allowed to strike? Strikes are a movement by employees when they feel their labor is being unappreciated or there is a wrong doing with their pay and possibly retirement plan. This will cause employees to band together and strike. A strike is when employees refuse to do the work that their employer has asked of them. It is usually the last step in labor management negotiations and is something that both sides typically want to avoid. Since when employees go on a strike both sides lose out on something. Employees do not get paid and the employers do not get their productivity done. In history, public employees never had the right to strike and they never struck before the 1960’s. That is the movement that they began to fight for their rights as public employees and it caused a major movement for public employees to stand up for themselves and fight back against the union that was violating their rights as public employees. Until the late 1960s, public employee strikes were illegal in every jurisdiction in the U.S. Yet when the idea took hold and the context was right, hundreds of thousands of public workers struck anyway, violating state laws and court injunctions. And they generally won—achieving recognition and good contracts, and forcing lawmakers to amend state laws to permit public employee bargaining. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/06/inspiration-look-history-public-worker-strikes#sthash.G0co1ed1.dpuf Public employee...
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...Strike as a social problem can first be traced to the disfunctioning of the society when looking at it from the functionalist perspective. Functionalism which is one of the perspectives of studying the society was developed in the 19th century, it’s a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on the social structures that shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, custom, tradition and institution. A common analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer presents these parts of society as "organs" that work toward the proper functioning of the "body" as a whole. In the most basic terms, it simply emphasizes "the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system". For Talcott Parson "structural-functionalism" came to describe a particular stage in the methodological development of Social Science, rather than a specific school of thought. The structural functionalism approach is a macro sociological analysis, with a broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole. In summary Functionalism...
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...Fundamental lessons which we can all learn from the bus strike Against the backdrop of the now famous bus strike, there have been efforts undertaken by the following parties: The Singapore Government calling on all parties to voice their grievances through the appropriate channels and a flurry of measures adopted by SMRT in response to public and government sentiment. Whilst the reactions and actions undertaken after the strike are laudable, one can’t help but express concern that the underlying issues of wages, worker’s living conditions and a clear lack of communication channels between all relevant parties have surfaced only via the drastic action of a strike. Indeed, all parties involved have to clearly reflect on the events of the past week and do their utmost to prevent future occurrences of such incidents. Complacency setting in Citing how strikes would affect workforce productivity and deter potential investors, the Singapore Government has long taken a dim view towards strikes and strikes have been few and far between throughout the annals of Singapore’s history. This has and still must be the key driving policy: A zero tolerance towards illegal strikes. In an attempt to maintain the welfare of general workers in Singapore, the National Union Trade Congress, businesses and National Employer’s Federation had been established. Tripartism was vaunted as the the way to progress and to cultivate the symbiotic relationship between businesses, employers and employees...
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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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...As a manager, they know that their employees work for a pension to retire from. Pensions change over years, which can benefit or may not benefit them, but as part of a manager’s job, it is their duty to keep up the morale of the employees, to support them and to boost their spirits of change to pensions and to ensure that employees attitudes don’t affect their work. “Members of the NHS and teachers’ scheme would the value of their benefit fall from 23% to 14%” (http://www.theguardian.com). As changes to the pension scheme change, this affects employees, as they are paying more into their pension scheme and receiving less for when they retire. Leadership & Ethics If applying the Rational Choice Theory to pension reforms then they are ethical because It is the ‘companies’ main objective to increase profits, increasing the amount people pay in to pensions and giving them less in their pensions boosts profits therefore may be viewed as ethical. Managers must use certain skills which are required for improvements which will therefore be viewed as ethical such as; * Profit driven mentality- If a manager has an aim for increasing profits etc they must have the mentality to drive their employees forward and to increase their working spirit to make these improvements. A manager should use techniques, good planning, strong will and making sacrifices. * Confidence (in the decision)- A manager should be able to think of new ideas for changes which will benefits the company...
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...compassion and responsibility etc. For McDonald’s they have many aims and objectives such as they’re committed to providing quality food quickly that their customers can trust with the best possible service, showing clear career paths to their employees that they can take, and helping out with the community and environment by litter picking for example. Stakeholders Stakeholders are an individual or group which is affected by a business, and has an interest in its success or failure and can be either an internal stakeholders i.e. employees, suppliers, managers; or external stakeholders i.e. customers, local community, trade unions. Customers Holly Lodge’s customers consist of its students and their parents. They both want good teachers and teaching environments otherwise they’re less likely to learn, with this they want the best grades possible so they can go on and get a good job and support themselves. Parents are also more likely to want the school to aid in teaching their child good values such as respect to others and a sense of responsibility that comes from doing and looking after their work. A final thing both types of customers want from the business is good school days; parents won’t want them too short because they may struggle trying to find someone to look after them if they’re young, and the students won’t want them too long because they’ll get bored and...
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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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...Individual Assignment 1 Chief Steward---Absenteeism---Discharge Peter Frost is a 52 year old maintenance mechanic with 25 years’ of 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...
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