On July 14, 1946 a group of steelworkers poured out of Hamilton’s Playhouse Theater and set up pickets around the country’s largest steel mill. Their action sparked one of the most important strikes in Canada’s history – a strike which many believe to mark the birth of the modern Canadian labour movement.
There is little love lost between progressives and Big Corporations. Many Big Corporations, such as Wal-Mart and about a thousand others, are burnt at the rhetorical stake for their failure, inter alia, to provide great (or any) medical and dental benefits or a high-growth 401(k). Progressives generally believe that the market is to blame for this undesirable deprivation of basic freedoms, and that the only soluti
Medical Cannabis and it´s impact on Human Health – Medical Marijuana
Part of the Labour Movement for Europe London & South East Branch event series discussing the PES manifesto in March 2008 – speaker input on New Social Europe – Ben Richards – Unite (Amicus Section) Trade Union
Political system is one of the subsystem of society, and play sufficient role in our life. The term political system refers to a recognized set of procedures for implementing and obtaining the goals of a group. Each society must have a political system in order to maintain recognized procedures for allocating valued resources. In political scientist Harold Lasswellâs (1936) terms, politics is who gets what, w
The dream of working at home fills the minds of stay-at-home moms, overwhelmed and exhausted full-time employees and part-timers who find working odd hours for little pay is a time waster. With all of the offers out there in the online community, it is difficult to distinguish a legitimate free home based business opportunity from a scam. There are two roadblocks that people who decide to start a home business usu