Employers believed that collective bargaining would be costly, put them at a disadvantage and take away their right to manage their employees effectively. On the other hand, larger corporations have a more positive outlook in terms of collective bargaining, believing it that can have the effect of keeping the workforce happy and therefore more productive.
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No, government is not involved as a party to collective bargaining, and government had regulated US business since the founding, and mort directly since the 1880's Interstate commerce and railroad acts.
Businesses resisted CB because they saw no reason for WORKERS to have a voice in setting working conditions and limiting employer authority when workers have zero stake in the business. Workers are paid for every hour worked even if the employer makes no profit. Owners are not paid (dividends or stock appreciation) unless the business makes a profit. Businesses should be riun for the benefit of owners who risk their money, not workers who have no money at risk.
Stalin tried to make the economy fully industrial as a result there were shortages of food, housing and clothing. He also began a farming revolution by making "Collective Farms" but wealthy peasants resisted it and millions were killed and exiled for it.
The Stamp Act imposed a tax on every piece of printed paper colonists used. Colonists viewed the Act as an attempt to make money off the colonists. They believed it set a precedent and resisted it.
The US dollar is 100 cents. The one dollar bill is the primary currency, dollar coins being greatly resisted by the public (Eisenhower dollars are large coins - Sacajawea, Susan B. Anthony, and Presidential brass dollars are too close to a quarter in size). For the value of a US dollar in other world currencies, see the related link below.
In some ways the middle of the 17th century was good time English merchants. In alliance with section of the landed gentry, Parliament had successfully resisted King Charles I's attempts to impose absolutism on the country. Suddenly, the middle classes were in control! This helped to give them enormous confidence, too. From 1649-1660 England was a republic and the Cromwellian r
Iran had problems with the British, and prior to the Shah so publicized in the news, Iran's royal family worked extensively with the British, and when the British left, the Shah of the 1970's worked with the Americans, hence he was seen as a traitor.