grievance

Examples of grievance in the following topics:

• Riots

  • Riots often occur in reaction to a perceived grievance or out of dissent.
  • Historically, riots have occurred due to poor working or living conditions, government oppression, taxation or conscription, conflicts between races or religions, the outcome of a sporting event, or frustration with legal channels through which to air grievances.

• Liberty and Property

  • On October 19, 1765, Congress drafted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to protect British colonists from unconstitutional taxes.
  • To protect the rights of colonists, delegates of the Stamp Act Congress drafted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, declaring that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
  • Differentiate between the Declaration of Rights and Grievances and the Virginia Resolves

• The First Amendment

  • Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

• Resolving Disagreements

  • Labor arbitration comes in two varieties: interest arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes about the terms to be included in a new contract when the parties are unable to agree, and grievance arbitration, which provides a method for resolving disputes over the interpretation and application of a collective bargaining agreement.
  • Unions and employers have also employed arbitration to resolve employee and union grievances arising under a collective bargaining agreement.
  • Grievance arbitration became even more popular during World War II, when most unions had adopted a no-strike pledge.
  • The Court held that grievance arbitration was a preferred dispute resolution technique and that courts could not overturn arbitrators' awards unless the award does not draw its essence from the collective bargaining agreement.

• The First Continental Congress

  • The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioning King George III for redress of those grievances.
  • The delegates organized an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest against the Coercive Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774 and petitioned the King for a redress of grievances.
  • They agreed to reconvene in May of 1775 if Parliament still did not address their grievances.
  • The petition expressed loyalty to the king and hoped for redress of grievances relating to the Coercive Acts and other issues that helped foment the American Revolution.

• The Hartford Convention

  • At the Hartford Convention of 1814, New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances over current events.
  • The Hartford Convention was an event in 1814–1815 in the United States in which New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812, as well as the political problems arising from the domination of the federal government by presidents from Virginia.
  • His report, delivered three days later, called for resisting any British invasion, criticized the leadership that had brought the nation close to disaster, and called for a convention of New England states to deal with their common grievances and common defense.
  • The Federalists discussed their grievances with the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo of 1807.

• The Constitutional Right to Petition the Government

  • In the United States the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the federal constitution, which specifically prohibits Congress from abridging "the right of the people...to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. " Although often overlooked in favor of other more famous freedoms, and sometimes taken for granted, many other civil liberties are enforceable against the government only by exercising this basic right .
  • In Blackstone's Comment, Last published in 1765, Americans in the Thirteen Colonies read that "the right of petitioning the king, or either house of parliament, for the redress of grievances" was a "right appertaining to every individual. "
  • In 1776, the Declaration of Independence cited King George's perceived failure to redress the grievances listed in colonial petitions, such as the Olive Branch Petition of 1775, as a justification to declare independence: "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

• British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

  • Discuss the nature of the grievances over the British empire's taxes on the colonies

• Complaint Procedures

  • Grievance and due process systems allow employees to address grievances and to argue their point if they feel they are wronged by management or another employee.

• Collective Bargaining

  • Collective bargaining consists of the process of negotiation between representatives of a union and employers (generally represented by management) in respect to the terms and conditions of employment, such as wages, hours of work, working conditions, grievance procedures, and the rights and responsibilities of trade unions.