- Industry: Government; Labor
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Los datos se presentan en cuatro regiones principales: noreste y medio oeste, sur, oeste. * Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Dakota del sur y Wisconsin. * Noreste: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Nueva Jersey, Nueva York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island y Vermont. * Sur: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Distrito de Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Carolina del norte, Oklahoma, Carolina del sur, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia y Virginia Occidental. * Oeste: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, nuevo México, Oregon, Utah, Washington y Wyoming.
Industry:Labor
El sector de negocios no agrícolas es un subconjunto de la economía nacional y excluye las actividades económicas de las siguientes opciones: administraciones públicas, casas privadas, organizaciones sin fines de lucro sirviendo a las personas y las granjas. El sector de negocios no agrícolas representaron alrededor del 77 por ciento del valor del producto interno bruto (PIB) en el año 2000.
Industry:Labor
La encuesta nacional de compensación produce datos de ganancias por parte de los niveles de trabajo dentro de una ocupación. Las obligaciones y responsabilidades de un trabajo se evalúan mediante cuatro factores (como el conocimiento y la complejidad de la obra) para determinar un nivel de trabajo. Los niveles varían según la ocupación, que van desde 1 a 15. Por ejemplo, nivel 1 puede representar una entrada de nivel, mientras que nivel 15 puede representar habilidades a nivel maestro.
Industry:Labor
The measure of efficiency in production. The comparison of resources used in creating goods and services. If the same resources that were used in the past produce more goods and services, productivity has increased.
Industry:Labor
Unions engaged in political action at least as far back as the 1820s, when they demanded universal free public education and abolition of imprisonment for debt as their major social reform issues. Today, AFL CIO and independent unions expend a substantial amount of money and effort in the promotion of their political causes. Their rationale is that what is gained at the bargaining table can be taken away from unions through legislation. AFL CIO's formal political organization which functions at the national, state, community and local union level is the Committee on Political Education (COPE).
Industry:Labor
The stationing of persons outside a place of employment to publically protest the employer and to discourage entry of nonstriking workers or customers. Most picketing takes place during strikes although there is also informational picketing conducted against nonunion business establishments.
Industry:Labor
A group of Irish miners who in the 1860s and '70s vandalized the mines and terrorized the bosses. Ten were hanged as the leaders of the conspiracy after Pinkerton agent, James McParland, exposed them in 1877.
Industry:Labor
Developed by James Rand, president of Remington Rand, in 1936 to break strikes. The formula included discrediting union leaders by calling them "agitators," threatening to move the plant, raising the banner of "law and order" to mobilize the community against the union, and actively engaging police in strike breaking activity, then organizing a back to work movement of pro company employees. While the National Association of Manufacturers enthusiastically published the plan, the National Labor Relations Board called it a battle plan for industrial war.
Industry:Labor
The World War II War Labor Board introduced the "Little Steel Formula"' which tied the cost of living to wage increases "as a stabilization factor. "
Industry:Labor
Union descriptions of tragic events in labor history. Examples include Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre where ten steelworkers were shot dead and over eighty were wounded by police on May 30, 1937. There was the Hilo, Hawaii, Massacre of 1938 where nearly fifty unionists were shot or bayonetted by police while sitting on a government pier protesting the unloading of a struck ship. Also, the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 which included the killing of eleven children and two women by the state militia.
Industry:Labor
