Dr. Annette West January 26, 2016 An Assessment of To Organize or Not To Organize The discussion will pertain to “To Organize or Not To Organize” a union with the Foster Care Workers, who work for the City of Newport News Department of Human Services in Virginia. Within the discussion, safety regarding workers going on home visits alone and not in pairs; long working hours without proper compensation, and disagreements regarding strenuous agency policies which conflict with what the state
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Sarah McLaughlin, a twenty-two year old single mother, tells Olsson that after working for her local Wal-Mart for over three years,only makes $16,800 a year. At Wal-Mart, that’s considered high-paid, according to McLaughlin. Due to workers being underpaid, many of them can not afford the health insurance benefits that Wal-Mart provides. Olsson states that Health insurance through the Wal-Mart plan would deduct $85 from McLaughlin’s $550 biweekly paychecks, therefore, she goes without
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Social workers work with different types of clients i.e. individuals, families, groups and communities, promoting social changes and social inclusion, empowering clients and helping them taking control over their lives. They base their job on principles of Human rights, social justice following the Code of Practice, Ethics and Values of social work. This includes multiple tasks of investigating and assessing the needs and circumstances of clients, providing services according to individual needs
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their company to the ninth floor of the brand new Asch building on the corner of Washington Square in Greenwich Village. Harris designed the layout of the sewing floor himself, placing the tables in a way that would minimize conversation among the workers in an effort to increase productivity. In 1906, the successful company expanded to the eighth floor. sales at the Triangle Factory hit the $1 million mark. Harris and Blanck
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tragedy sparked a revolt, which led to a unionization of workers. While each tragedy happened 100 years apart, both tragedies are similar in that worker where exploited and not cared for. Both are similar in the fact that the owner’s only priority was to produce as many garments as fast as possible. The Tazreen blaze started at 7.pm on a Saturday it took the fire fighters all night to put out the flames. This event leads to 111 garment workers dying in the flames, and many others sent to hospitals
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Audrey Glasgow FOS 2530 Research Project It is 1645 hours on March 25, 2014 (actual year of incident is 1911), and Public Safety Communications has dispatched fire units to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located in the Asch Building at 23 through 29 Washington Place, Manhattan, NY, which is on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, for a report of a building on fire. As your agency’s Fire and Arson Investigator on duty, you are dispatched to the scene. Fire suppression units arrived
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at them and even call them names that were too unbearable to mention. Most young women were dissatisfied with the way they were being treated. One evening in September many young women went to secret meeting of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) to hear what most of the representatives had to say. They told women that they needed take a stand against such horrid conditions. They meet in a court room to decide whether or not this was a good idea. One little shirt waist girl said
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that caught on quickly on the New York fashion scene, becoming highly demanded in the early 1900s. In order to keep up with the level of demand, owners Isaac Harris and Max Blanck disregarded what sparing legislature was in place to protect the workers in factories. The factories in New York after the Second Industrial Revolution were primarily employing immigrants desperate for jobs to survive who were willing to work for lower wages in bad conditions. In the case of the textile factories, specifically
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“If I jump, my family will have a body to identify and bury, but if I stay in this room, there will be nothing left,” (Marrin 114). This terrible thought went through many young women’s, men’s, and even little girl’s heads as the flames grew and grew when three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were on fire on March 25, 1911. Burning clothes fell on people’s heads due to the kerosene that was everywhere in the factory (Lieurance 12). The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was one of the most
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The Triangle Factory Fire Was the Perfect Storm On March 25th, 1911 at 4:45 P.M., workers on the 8th floor of the Asch Building are getting ready for quitting time and are standing around idly and conversing with one another. Although it is unknown exactly how the fire started, it is assumed that a worker flicked a cigarette ash into one of the baskets of spare cloth under the desks. And while the Asch Building itself was fireproof, the contents unfortunately were not. The fire consumed the table
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