Tag: Strike

The impetus to research and write this story started with stumbling upon Genndy Tartakovksy’s Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) hidden deep inside Disney+ and wondering what made the show so gobsmackingly brilliant. Television cartoons are generally not considered Art with a capital &l...

Once I asked an aunt how often her husband had gone on strike with the United Auto Workers when he worked at the Caterpillar tractor plant in Peoria, Illinois. “Every time there was a contract negotiation,” she said, looking surprised that I would even ask. My uncle’s time on...

A fair strike and a good Provost are not mutually exclusive. It is a dialectic where both can be true, and that is what I have found in my experience. I am a Senior Lecturer for Public Policy at the University of Sydney who enthusiastically supports the right of the Union to conduct Industrial Ac...

One of the recent court cases challenging gun control measures was brought forth in State A, where a controversial law imposing strict background checks and waiting periods for firearm purchases was struck down. Proponents of the law argue that these measures are crucial for preventing gun violence ...

In the late 1950s, amid the space race, scientists and politicians in the USA and the USSR almost simultaneously came up with the “bright” idea: to drop a nuclear or thermonuclear bomb on the Moon. But why was this necessary, and why did the countries not implement their projects? Let&rs...

Along with cheese, wine, and the baguette, strikes or protests may also come to mind when thinking about France. For better or worse, the idea is not an over-generalization, and the longer you spend in France, the more likely your plans will be affected by a strike if not a protest in the bigger cit...