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Jack Strong takes a stand
Tired of being forced to participate in sports and take extra lessons and tutoring to become well-rounded in anticipation of college, middle-schooler Jack Strong stages a sit-in on his couch until his parents ease up.
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Bread and Tea
In this post-Arab Spring novel, Ahmad Tarawneh tells the story of conflicting loyalties between two Jordanian brothers, one who serves in the Jordanian national security division, and another who belongs to an extremist militant Islamic group. With boldness, clarity, and an insider's eye, Tarawneh addresses the root causes and circumstances that lead a desperate young Jordanian to be recruited into a terrorist organization, tempted by the lure of glory purported by a skillful, self-serving sheikh. The novel depicts the positive and negative forces that influence the two brothers in their soul-searching quests for self-actualization that lead to more questions than answers-questions many Arab youth still ask today, while engulfed in their own raging struggles over tradition, religion, modernity, and secularism. Readers find themselves on an intimate journey into the minds and hearts of the protagonists to witness the tragedy and absurdity of this conflict and the magnitude of the human destruction it leaves behind.
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Please please the bees
Accustomed to the daily jars of honey provided by the bees living in his yard, Benedict the bear is upset when they go on strike, but he listens to their requests for better working conditions and makes an effort to please the unhappy bees.
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Holding the Line
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels,Holding the Lineis a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters.
Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mining towns. At the time the strike began, many women said they couldn't leave the house without their husband's permission. Yet, when injunctions barred union men from picketing, their wives and daughters turned out for the daily picket lines. When the strike dragged on and men left to seek jobs elsewhere, women continued to picket, organize support, and defend their rights even when the towns were occupied by the National Guard. \"Nothing can ever be the same as it was before,\" said Diane McCormick of the Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary. \"Look at us. At the beginning of this strike, we were just a bunch of ladies.\"
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THE RIGHT TO STRIKE IN THE ILO SYSTEM OF STANDARDS: FACTS AND FICTION
The right to strike has been subject to heated debates in the International Labour Organization (ILO) and beyond. Employers were accused by some that they wanted to derecognize the right to strike altogether. This is completely wrong and needs to be clarified. Employers in the ILO and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) as their global confederation have always recognized the right to strike and the right to lockout as legitimate instruments in the context of industrial relations. The right to strike and to lockout is regulated at a national level in practically all countries worldwide. However, employers have contested the view that the right to strike was regulated at global level. Neither ILO Conventions No. 87 and 98 nor any other ILO conventions regulate the right to strike. Also the relevant Council of Europe and European Union texts refer to the right to strike always as regulated at national level and do not contain any regulation at an international/European level.
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Massacre of the miners
Young Frank, his father, and the families of all the Colorado miners on strike in the Ludlow tent colony are uncertain of their fate when the camp's guards attack during the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.
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En guerre = At war
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent (Vincent Lindon) takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
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Salt of the earth
Ramon Quintero strikes for equity of wages as well as health and safety issues, but at home, he mistreats his wife. When the men are forced to end their picketing, she joins the other women who demand to play a role, against their husbands' wishes. Written, directed, and produced by members of the original blacklisted \"Hollywood Ten,\" Salt of the Earth is a powerful, persuasive drama. Newly restored from original archival film elements!
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Footnotes
Inspired by the films of Jacques Demy and Stanley Donen, this musical comedy follows a young woman who must dance between a budding romance, a scheming boss, and co-workers on strike at her new job in a luxury shoe factory.
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