This document outlines a labor dispute between a younger employee, Bob, his supervisor Amy, and union steward John at a manufacturing plant. Bob has been threatened with firing for refusing to stay late one day a week for cleanup duty due to childcare responsibilities. Younger employees side with Bob, wanting family-friendly policies, while older employees back the union. The memo assigns the task of writing a proposal to resolve the issues as a union official brought in, referring to principles from readings.
Proposal-Based PresentationNow that youve finished your written.docx
1. Proposal-Based Presentation
Now that you've finished your written proposal, you are ready
to create a PowerPoint presentation based on it. This should not
be a reproduction of your proposal; rather it is to share
information about your proposal with your classmates.
Presentation Guidelines
To create your Proposal Project Presentation, you should not
copy and paste large sections of text from your written
proposal. A PowerPoint presentation is not the same as a written
report. Your slides should include only the main points from
your proposal, and these main points should be condensed into
short phrases and explanations. Your PowerPoint presentation
should include the following elements:
Title Slide
Your title slide should include the following:
· An appropriate title for your proposal presentation
· The name of this course (in place of the name of the company
preparing the proposal)
· The author's name
· The date of the presentation
Problem Section (1-3 slides)
Just as you did in the written proposal, you must prove that a
serious problem exists. You may want to answer these questions
about your problem:
· How long has the problem existed?
· Is it worse now? Why?
· What are some relevant statistics?
· What are other people doing to solve similar problems?
However, please remember that PowerPoint slides should use
short phrases and explanations, not complete paragraphs from
your written proposal. You may want to include a visual,
especially if your problem section discusses relevant statistics.
Audience (1-2 slides)
Your slides should explain who the audience of your proposal
2. includes and what their needs are. Tell how you will overcome
skepticism. What objections do you anticipate? How will you be
sure your proposal is the "winning" proposal for this audience?
Solution
Section (1-3 slides)
Your slides should briefly outline the change you propose and
want approved. Your solution should be directly related to the
problem you just documented and be appropriate to the audience
you've described.
Again, please remember that PowerPoint slides should use short
phrases and explanations, not complete paragraphs from your
written proposal. You should consider using visuals in this
section if you cite numerical data to support your plan.
In the overall format of your PowerPoint slides, please use the
following guidelines:
· Use an appropriate design template. Assume that your
presentation will be given in a "bright" room (with the lights
on).
A Word on Visuals...
Make sure your visuals explain, support, or enhance your
presentation. Do not use visuals simply as decoration.
3. Title is Family Healthcare Associates, Inc. ( it is a small clinic)
English 272
World Literature II
Research Paper
Length: 5-10 pages (Works Cited page counts as one page.)
Use MLA 2009 Format and 12 point font
The research paper must be written about one (or more) of the
literary (aka Primary works/sources)
works from the syllabus. You may write a research paper about
the same topic you used for the
Preliminary Research assignment, or you may choose other
works/topics that you wish to explore
4. more fully.
You must use at least three and no more than five critical
sources (aka Secondary or “outside”
sources), as well as quotes and specific references to the
primary text. Please do not use .com
sources.
Here are the guidelines:
1. You must use an argumentative thesis, stating a claim that
must be proved.
2. Remember to follow the general ground rules for an essay.
You will need an introduction, which
will set the context for a reader who may not have read the
work, a clearly stated thesis, body
paragraphs that relate to the thesis and use specific references
5. to support a clearly stated point, and a
conclusion that not only re-states and thesis, but returns
gracefully to the ideas in the paper’s
introduction.
3. You must document your quotes and paraphrases in the body
of the paper with parenthetical
documentation using MLA 2009 style. For help, visit the MLA
2009 section of the Online Writing
Lab at Purdue University:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
4. You must have a Works Cited page listing all your sources in
MLA format, including the primary
source (ie. the literary work from the syllabus). Remember that
a source must be cited in your paper
in order for you to list in on the Works Cited page. You will not
get credit for a source unless you
6. cite it in the paper.
5. For internet sources, please do give URLs. You may shorten
these as per MLA 2009.
Here are two examples:
“People and Events: Women’s Roles in the 1950s.” The Pill.
American Experience. PBS Online. Web.
10 March, 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/>.
Shannon, G. Sandra. “The Ground on Which I Stand: August
Wilson’s Perspective on African
American Women.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 222.
Gale, (2006). Literature
Resource Center. Gale Resource. Web. 10 March 2011.
<http://go.galegroup.com.>.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
http://go.galegroup.com.fetch.mhsl.uab.edu/ps/aboutJournal.do?
8. records, they have performed their respective jobs well over the
years and have acted professionally in the past, representing
their respective sides properly.
Bob Edwards has been an employee only 11 weeks. As of last
Tuesday, he joined the union, which he was allowed to do after
10 weeks of employment.
Bob's supervisor is Amy Lawrence. Last Wednesday, a day
after he joined the union, Bob informed Amy that he was not
able to stay late on Wednesdays to complete a clean up job even
though Amy reminded him twice. In fact, Amy informed Bob
that now that he is a permanent employee and under the union
contract, he is required to clean up each Wednesday, once a
week, after work hours. Bob has apologized to Amy, but has
also advised her that he is not able to do the cleaning because
he must leave at 5 p.m. sharp each day to pick up his daughter
Telitha from day care. (His wife works evenings.)
Following are further details about the case:
1. Bob's job description does not actually contain clean up as
one of his tasks.
2. Bob did notify Amy when he first started the job that he
needed to leave promptly at 5 P.M. each day to pick up his
daughter. Amy told him she was sure they could work
something out.
3. Bob has asked John Delford, the union steward, to obtain an
exception for him.
9. 4. John Delford, however, agrees with Amy that a one-year-old
change in the union contract requires all full time permanent
employees to clean up after hours, up to 45 minutes, once per
week, as designated by a supervisor. John says he is not able to
obtain an exception for Bob.
5. When Bob continues to leave sharply at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays without cleaning up, Amy threatens him with
discharge. To comply, Bob finally switches day care providers
to a more expensive one in another part of town, farther away,
with more flexible hours.
6. Meanwhile, in Amy's presence, John has called Bob a "sissy
man", "Mr. Mom" "dirty Daddy" and other names. Amy scolded
John, but did not take any disciplinary action. Since then, Bob
has found notes and pictures in his lunchbox, ridiculing his role
as Mr. Mom. In retaliation, Bob's supporters have been
anonymously posting rude slogans implying that the union and
company are unethically colluding.
7. The older employees have sided with Amy and John and the
younger ones with Bob. It turns out that this issue has struck a
nerve, as a number of the younger employees have had problems
with the new policy. While the older employees are happy with
the union and the employer, the younger employees are very
unhappy. They want a new family friendly policy, which the
older employees think will just spoil the workers.
8. The younger employees consider the treatment of Bob to be
10. something like "gender plus" sexual harassment, in that he is
required to make extra sacrifice due to his responsibility as a
father having to cope with day care.
9. The atmosphere at the plant has become hostile. Several
employees have threatened to quit the union, and there have
been shouting matches in the lunchroom. The older employees
say they are going to protest or go on strike if Bob gets his way,
and the younger ones say they are going to find work elsewhere
if John isn't fired as the union steward.
10. Bob begins to have trouble with his health because of the
stress. For one thing, he now has high blood pressure, which he
has never had before. He decides to hire an attorney to sue both
the company and the union. The attorney sends a demand letter,
asking for Bob to receive an apology from the union and the
company and an exception from the clean up duty. The attorney
has offered to meet with representatives of the company and the
union.
Your Assignment
You are an official of the union brought in to resolve this
problem. Write a memo in Word with suggestions on how you
would propose to solve this labor-employment problem. Refer
to principles and examples from your reading.
Need to read thoroughly and then write memo on how you
would propose solving these issues.
