About 4000 members of the power union voted to strike, in a move to increase their wages that were set by the Duquesne Light Company. The city’s power supply was reduced to 45 per cent when Duquesne Light Company employees failed to report for work. The Union President George Mueller was sentenced to one year in jail because he inspired the strike. The labor leaders of Pittsburgh supported Mueller’s. George Mueller’s arrest caused eight thousand steel and electrical workers in the Pittsburgh district to strike in protest.
Armand Bombardier (inventor of the snowmobile) Joseph-Armand Bombardier was born in 1907. Armand was into mechanics at an early age when he made small locomotives, toy tractors and boats. At 17, Armand became an apprentice mechanic before heading to Montreal to study electrical and mechanical engineering. In 1929, he married Yvonne and soon after he lost his son to peritonitis because the family failed to get means to the hospital in time. That challenged him to find a mean of transport in snow winter.
Ashish Sahay MGT555-Winter Quarter January 29, 2014 Overview The company that I currently work for, Lake Electronics, is a privately held, leading provider of complex contract electrical manufacturing services. We continue to be a preferred high-end manufacturing partner for customers in a diverse group of industries. The hallmark of our Company has been the commitment to excellence on the part of the members of our team, and their dedication to the success of each and every customer. My father is the Chairman and CEO of the company and currently we have 68 full-time employees that work in various departments of manufacturing, financial services, research and development, and engineering. As lead supervisor of operations, I decided to speak to the vice president of the company who is in charge of hiring the workforce and wears the hat as our human resource representative.
Labor Union strikes were the most prominent form of worker insurrection against employers. During the period of 1875-1900, many labor unions participated in strikes, however many of them failed to achieve their goals. The biggest reason that farmers and workers went on strike was clearly stated by a machinist before the Senate Committee on Labor and Capital. Because machines were taking jobs away, workers would lose their livelihood, and most likely their only source of income. In the year of 1877, employees working for the four largest railroads went on strike due to the fact that their employers cut their wages by 10 percent; this was known as the Great Rail Road Strike.
John Deere Week Two Individual May 20, 2009 Diane Phillips Instructor: Richard Rignall John Deere The individual whom I selected and believe to be a creative thinker is John Deere; the founder of John Deere Company. Born in Vermont, this individual has been a very valuable asset to John Deere Company. John was able to bring his small work shop into a large corporation which continues to grow. Having been only a one man blacksmith, John was able to expand this business to what it is today. With approximately 56,000 people working at his corporation the company continue to running strong.
Duncan Industries specializes in scissor hoists. In 1999, the company captured 46% of North American scissor hoist sales and 2.1% of the overall hoist market. The president of Duncan Industries is Mark Duncan. As a design engineer, he has a solid background in the industry working eight years for a Canadian subsidiary of a U.S. manufacturer before starting Duncan Industries in 1990. Mark had designed an above ground lift and was passionate about the development of this lift with its unique scissor design and wheel alignment pads.
3. The conveyor malfunctioned and failed to stop when the client reached the top of the lift. The conveyor had been in use for twenty-five years, her employer replaced it the day after the accident. The employer dismantled the conveyor and disposed of many of the important parts. 4.
By 1985, Ed’s father built a sawmill and Bishop Shetler, the spiritual and social leader of this Amish community, gave Mr. Gingerich permission to supply building material to the community. Ed was particularly interested in the mechanical end of the operation. He was highly intelligent in mechanics and machinery- most of which was self-taught. When he was not at the sawmill, he could be found spending time with Brownhill’s “English” (Fisher, 2000, p. ix) neighbors (those who were outside the Amish faith) fixing trucks, tractors and farm machinery. Over the next few months, Ed continued spending more time with his English friends and confessed something that had been troubling him for some time: he’d been thinking about leaving the Amish faith, but he didn’t know how to go about it (Fisher, 2000, p.9).
About six years ago my uncle had broken his back. Yes, it was scary, but we all thought he was going to be okay because it wasn’t too serious. But we were all wrong when he got his surgery and nothing had happened. And that was the beginning of my uncle’s depressing life. He has had about ten surgeries since then and every time something has gone, for example his last surgery they put a shocker in his back.
He lived a long and hard life. He was the Berkeley County Animal Warden for 12 years as well as a volunteer firefighter at Baker Heights Fire Department after that he became the head mechanic and mixer operator for a company called Potomac Construction Industries. Everyone at PCI called him the legend because of how much he know about mechanics and he had never attended school for it as well as he had dropped out of school