not only has impacted their economy, but their employee morale. It has had an adverse affect on the company and consumers both here in the Unites States and abroad. The ethical conflict facing Starbucks in Chile is that is the fact that their workers, whose wages start at a mere $2.50 an hour are so low that they cannot even buy themselves lunch. The wages have not increased in eight years there according to one supervisor. There was also concern around healthcare benefits that were not being
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UAW www.uaw.org Technical Writing (EN-249) The UAW website www.uaw.org has an amazing platform for the members of the United Auto Workers to reference the current information and news about the UAW. This site is quite user friendly offering anything from current updates on how to organize. It also offers a newsletter called Solidarity. I have chosen to look in the archives and found an interesting post on General Motors retirees and their benefits. The first thing that comes to
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and distinguish/differentiate its services from the competitors so we will need to develop a strategy that set us apart. By providing a cost effective walk-in laundry service that is clean, fully equipped and monitored will provide blue collar workers long term value for consumers and the organization. To enhance the service availability daily proactive maintance will be part of the operations effectiveness Laundery matt. In addition, weekly early bird discounts will offered in promoting and
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UAW (United Auto Workers), a very large union content. With the collapse of the economy in 2008, many workers and unions have had to compromise with larger companies in order to keep these companies from moving their production outside of the United States. Ford has agreed to "in-source" jobs from Mexico, China, and Japan and will create 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States by 2015. The proposed contract calls for major givebacks on the income and benefits won by workers over decades of struggle
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hours. Employees came to work drunk or high, or did not come to work at all. Absenteeism was high. Drinking on the production line was the norm. There was zero accountability, and 100% protection from the union. Wages were too high for the workers who did have any sort of work ethic to be able to find employment elsewhere. Actually, work ethic was scarce, both among the union employees and their managers. The overriding lack of
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worked together to form the United Farm Workers Union. This union was formed to ensure that farm workers got paid for the right amount of time they worked for. Many farmers were getting low wages and Cesar Chavez thought that was unfair. Cesar Chavez was a farmer ever since he graduated eight grade. His father was in an accident and he didn't want his mother to work so much. When he was 17 he went to the Navy for two years. He started the United Farm Workers Union in 1962. Cesar didn't have many
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A Comeback for the UAW? With the currently aging workforce and the demands on both domestic and foreign auto workers in the US the overall desire for labor organization could be on the upswing during the next decade. With almost two thirds of the current manufacturing workforce poised for retirement and lower wage workers being hired unions could gain an infusion of both support and energy. Couple this with a downward trend in the economy which stokes demand for lower costing automobiles
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Women gaining power in business The role of women in the workforce has increased dramatically over the last several decades. If we look at women these days, women have become very successful in balancing between both work and family to build a strong foundation for their children and future generations who may want to be just as successful, ambitious and accomplish the same goals. Women these days have so many more opportunities that they never had before, this opens the doors for women to
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PAY FACTORS 1. Kinds and levels of required knowledge and skills There is an old adage that states “it is who you know not what you know” that will get you the job, pay or promotion you want or seek. Perhaps this is true but in my opinion it is partly true. We live in an economy and business atmosphere that are seeking and relying on knowledge and skill that a person will bring to a corporation or organization that will contribute its profitability. Today, there is a lot of buzz about green
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latifundium model, dominated by the old rural oligarchy. The 1930 revolution that overthrew the old coffee-based oligarchy , has deeply encourages the process of industrialization and by same time recognized the legal rights of urban workers, and also the state was given a leading role in the economic process with the recommendation not to intervene accordingly in the agrarian area. At the end of World War II, Brazil returned to democracy has made its transformation process of accelerated
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