Union busting — is a practice that is undertaken by an employer or their agents to prevent employees from joining a labor union, or to disempower, subvert, or destroy unions that already exist.During contract negotiations, established unions may declare a strike … Wikipedia
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Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union — The Five Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR (Russian: пятилетка, Pyatiletka ) were a series of nation wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by the Gosplan based on the… … Wikipedia