One interest group is the Society for Professional Employees of Aerospace otherwise known as SPEEA. They were founded in 1946. They are a professional aerospace labor union. It is an affiliated local union of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers otherwise known as IFPTE. The members of the union are located in Washington State, Kansas, Oregon, Utah, Florida, and California. The Union headquarters are in Seattle, WA with other offices located in Everett, WA and Wichita, Kansas. The companies that have SPEEA are Boeing, Triumph Composite Systems, and Spirit Aerosystems. SPEEA is a professional union. Their goal is to help the employees with benefit issues and navigating the workplace. They advocate and provide for …show more content…
They are a voluntary grassroots advocacy organization. They are independent, voluntary non-governmental organization. They are represented and governed by ranch and farm families. Their purpose is to analyze the problems of the families and to formulate actions in order to achieve economic opportunity, educational improvement, and social advancement and to promote national wellbeing. They are local, city, state, national, and international in range and influence. They are nonpartisan, non-secret, and non-sectarian. Its policy originates at the local level, promotes their policy up to the county, state, and national forums. Speaking out on issues that concern rural America by way of politically active people. They represent the economic and social interests of the farm and ranch families at state, local and national levels. It seeks to gain the support of the public on issues that affect farms and ranch families. They were founded in 1920 a year after the American Farm Bureau Federation was created. With over 2,000 members, the earliest county farm bureaus were located in Spokane, Walla Walla, Columbia, Skagit, Yakima, and Kittitas. The state office has been in varying locations first starting in Spokane then it moved to Walla Walla, then to Ellensburg, then Yakima to Olympia before they settled down in Lacy in 2006. It has a proximity to the State capitol which is Olympia. The earlier issues for them was to ensure rural citizens had and enjoyed the exact same benefits and the city people. It included telephone access, rural electrification, and other services and goods that were needed at competitive prices and also enjoyed by urban citizens. They still remain active in this cause. It consists of 25 county farm bureau organizations. In all of agricultural communities, they are one of the most respected member service organizations. They provide a variety of services to rural people such as health
Growing up on a farm is not uncommon if you live in Western Kansas. As many know, however, it 's not
...ed access to federal subsidies that were given to all farmers. These federal programs were administered locally by a small class that controlled the counties. If they said that their county didn’t have the need for these checks they were returned, or in some cases pocketed by the landowners themselves instead of giving them to the sharecroppers. (Kreisler internet)
In 1928 the National Future Farmers of America foundation started, in the Baltimore hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, the annual dues were only $.10. Nine years earlier in 1917 the Smith Hugh’s act was established providing federal funding and encouraged high schools to have vocational agriculture programs. In 1929 the official colors were adopted, they are National Blue and Corn Gold. In 1953 the United States post office issued a special FFA stamp. Sixteen years later, in 1969, women were allowed to join FFA, and in 1988 7th and 8th graders were allowed to join. In that same year Future Farmers of America changed their name to the National FFA Organization after learning that not all of the people in the organization were or going to be farmers. There are 3 circles of FFA; they are Classroom, SAE, and FFA. The national headquarters office is in Indianapolis, Indiana. The FFA motto is “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve,” and the FFA mission is “Premier Leadership, Personal Growth, and Career Success.” The website for the National FFA is ffa.org, and the Wisconsin FFA website is wisconsinffa.org. The First issue of The National Future Farmer Magazine was published in 1952. In 1989 it changed its name to FFA New Horizons.
Due to the nature of farmers, they were often independent and individualistic and not in any kind of organizations. This hurt them because corporations and processors were frequently involved in trusts and used it to their advantage. Mary E. Lease talks about this in Document C. She basically says that it is time for a change and that we will no longer be abused by banks and the dreaded foreclosure system. So the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) was organized in 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley. According to Document G, manufacturing had become the main economic sector. So, the Grange’s goal was to improve the lives of farmers by organizing them through social, educational, and fraternal activities.
Groupon is a daily deal website for registered consumers. Every day, the company sends out electronic deals for restaurants, entertainment, etc. offering the consumers up to a 60% discount if you “purchase” that service. The problems which Groupon is being faced with revolve around marketing, and the general concept of Groupon. Not only is Groupon offering limited forms of marketing, but they are also limiting their target audience. Groupon is also formed around the concept that if the number of subscribers didn’t meet a minimum number, then the deal will be cancelled. This is making companies lose money, but it is also not giving the consumers what they desire.
Even through the economic crisis of the 1890s, Americans held to their beliefs of maintaining a free market, free from governmental influence in the agricultural fields. Farm policy remained nonexistent for 40 more years, until Herbert Hoover came into office in 1928, bringing with him heavy support for federal agricultural intervention. In 1929 he signed legislation to create the Federal Farm Board, a program intended to stabilize the income of farmers and equalize it to that of other professions—no doubt, this was in theory a logical idea, but this program paved the way for nonsensical programs to rule the agricultural sector for, thus far, the rest of our nation’s history. The Farm Board introduced
The FFA was officially founded, as the Future Farmers of America, in 1928. However, the idea began many years before in 1917 with the Smith-Hughes Act (FFA History para 1). The Smith-Hughes act provided funding to states for vocational education courses. Then, in 1925 Henry Groseclose met with Harry Sanders, Edmund C. Magill, and the Virginia state supervisor of agriculture education, Walter S. Newman, to discuss an organization for boys in agriculture classes(FFA History para 2). Finally, in 1928 The Future Farmers of America was established at a meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. This first National FFA Convention was attended by 33 delegates from 18 states (FFA History para 5). However, by 1988 the name Future Farmers of America was changed to National FFA Organization to better reflect the expanding agriculture opportunities (FFA History para 37). In its early years, membership to the FFA was restricted to boys only. ...
Farmers everywhere in the United States during the late nineteenth century had valid reasons to complaint against the economy because the farmers were constantly being taken advantage of by the railroad companies and banks. All farmers faced similar problems and for one thing, farmers were starting to become a minority within the American society. In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was in the spotlight creating big businesses and capitals. The success of industrialization put agriculture and farmers on the down low, allowing the corporations to overtake the farmers. Since the government itself; such as the Republican Party was also pro-business during this time, they could have cared less about the farmers.
The National Farm Association was co-founded by Cesar Chavez and Gil Padilla. The main purpose of this association was to seek and enforce Mexican-American labor laws. Such as reasonable work hours and pay an individual receives. To get their message across, many formed marches, boycotts, and strikes. With these forms of expression, people started to hear the voices of those wanting a change in El Movimiento.
“The farm implement industry has profoundly shaped both American agriculture and the national economy. Of all farm implements, the tractor has had the greatest impact on rural life” (Robert C. Williams, qtd. in Olmstead).
Agriculture is not all work and no play. Many advances can be made in the understanding of agriculture by making available a variety of methods to provide children with a hands-on experience and also educating all individuals about the importance of the practice. The ignorance of urban communities can be overcome with the help of organizations and people within the community. School visits, hands-on experiences, volunteers and organizations are just a few examples of the steps that can be taken to educate Americans about agriculture and close the gap between rural and urban populations.
...nnected to nature and have the responsibility of providing the world food, clothing, and a great deal of other things as well. Through it all farmers are a tight-knit group of men and women who have a mutual respect of nature and each other regardless of what type of farming they choose.
The assessment helped me to deeply think about my career and the things that I would want in the organization that I hope to work for. I believe it to be an accurate assessment and helps an individual put what is important to them into perspective. It is often helpful in career counseling to have an indication of where the client is in terms of career decision or indecision (Whiston. 2017). This tool
Farmers are essentially the back-bone of the entire food system. Large-scale family farms account for 10% of all farms, but 75% of overall food production, (CSS statistics). Without farmers, there would be no food for us to consume. Big business picked up on this right away and began to control the farmers profits and products. When farmers buy their land, they take out a loan in order to pay for their land and farm house and for the livestock, crops, and machinery that are involved in the farming process. Today, the loans are paid off through contracts with big business corporations. Since big business has such a hold over the farmers, they take advantage of this and capitalize on their crops, commodities, and profits. Farmers are life-long slaves to these b...
Family farms are slowly fading away from the American landscape due to the increasing number of industrialized farms. Yet, there are so many benefits that the family farm brings to the community that it would be foolish to let them slip away. As Americans, we need to do everything we can to support out family farmers because they help the community out in many ways. Everything from local, fresh, produce, to helping keep our land free from chemicals and insecticides are just a few of the tasks they do to help everyone out. Without them, the United States will turn into a place where only few farm, and those who do, farm for an economical motive. America needs the farmer who not only farms for themselves but for the entire community as well.