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Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines. In most countries, they were quickly made illegal, as factory owners had far more political power than workers. Most western countries partially legalized striking in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Strikes are sometimes used to put pressure on governments to change policies. Occasionally, strikes destabilise the rule of a particular political party. A notable example is the Gdańsk Shipyard strike led by Lech Wałęsa. This strike was significant in the struggle for political change in Poland, and was an important mobilised effort that contributed to the fall of governments in Stalinist East Europe.
The strike tactic has a very long history. Towards the end of the 20th dynasty, under Pharaoh Ramses III in ancient Egypt on 14 November 1152 BC, the artisans of the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina organized the first known strike or workers' uprising in recorded history. The event was reported in detail on a papyrus at the time, which has been preserved, and is currently located in Turin.[1] The strike is narrated by John Romer in Ancient Lives: The story of the Pharaohs' Tombmakers [2]
The use of the English word "strike" first appeared in 1768, when sailors, in support of demonstrations in London, "struck" or removed the topgallant sails of merchant ships at port, thus crippling the ships.[1][3] Official publications have typically used the more neutral words "work stoppage" or "industrial dispute".
The Mexican Constitution was the first, all over the world, that constitutionally guaranteed the right to strike, in 1917.
A list of strikes of historic significance may be found here.
Categories of strikesEdit
Most strikes are undertaken by labor unions during collective bargaining. The object of collective bargaining is to obtain a contract (an agreement between the union and the company) which may include a no-strike clause which prevents strikes, or penalizes the union and/or the workers if they walk out while the contract is in force. The strike is typically reserved as a threat of last resort during negotiations between the company and the union, which may occur just before, or immediately after, the contract expires.
Sometimes a union will strike rather than sign an agreement with a no-strike clause. Such an action was documented in Harlan County, USA, a video about a United Mine Workers strike.
In some industrial unions, the no-strike clause is considered controversial.
Generally, strikes are rare: according to the News Media Guild, 98% of union contracts in the United States are settled each year without a strike.[citation needed] Occasionally, workers decide to strike without the sanction of a labor union, either because the union refuses to endorse such a tactic, or because the workers concerned are not unionized. Such strikes are often described as unofficial. Strikes without formal union authorization are also known as wildcat strikes.
In many countries, wildcat strikes do not enjoy the same legal protections as recognized union strikes, and may result in penalties for the union members who participate or their union. The same often applies in the case of strikes conducted without an official ballot of the union membership, as is required in some countries such as the United Kingdom.
A strike may consist of workers refusing to attend work or picketing outside the workplace to prevent or dissuade people from working in their place or conducting business with their employer. Less frequently workers may occupy the workplace, but refuse either to do their jobs or to leave. This is known as a sit-down strike.
Another unconventional tactic is work-to-rule (also known as an Italian strike, in Italian Sciopero bianco), in which workers perform their tasks exactly as they are required to but no better. For example, workers might follow all safety regulations in such a way that it impedes their productivity or they might refuse to work overtime. Such strikes may in some cases be a form of "partial strike" or "slowdown".
During the development boom of the 1970s in Australia, the Green ban was developed by certain more socially conscious unions. This is a form of strike action taken by a trade union or other organised labour group for environmentalist or conservationist purposes. This developed from the black ban, strike action taken against a particular job or employer in order to protect the economic interests of the strikers.
United States labor law also draws a distinction, in the case of private sector employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act, between "economic" and "unfair labor practice" strikes. An employer may not fire, but may permanently replace, workers who engage in a strike over economic issues. On the other hand, employers who commit unfair labor practices (ULPs) may not replace employees who strike over ULPs, and must fire any strikebreakers they have hired as replacements in order to reinstate the striking workers.
Strikes may be specific to a particular workplace, employer, or unit within a workplace, or they may encompass an entire industry, or every worker within a city or country. Strikes that involve all workers, or a number of large and important groups of workers, in a particular community or region are known as general strikes. Under some circumstances, strikes may take place in order to put pressure on the State or other authorities or may be a response to unsafe conditions in the workplace.
A sympathy strike is, in a way, a small scale version of a general strike in which one group of workers refuses to cross a picket line established by another as a means of supporting the striking workers. Sympathy strikes, once the norm in the construction industry in the United States, have been made much more difficult to conduct due to decisions of the National Labor Relations Board permitting employers to establish separate or "reserved" gates for particular trades, making it an unlawful secondary boycott for a union to establish a picket line at any gate other than the one reserved for the employer it is picketing. Sympathy strikes may be undertaken by a union as an organization or by individual union members choosing not to cross a picket line.
A jurisdictional strike in United States labor law refers to a concerted refusal to work undertaken by a union to assert its members' right to particular job assignments and to protest the assignment of disputed work to members of another union or to unorganized workers.
A student strike has the students (sometimes supported by faculty) not attending schools. Unlike other strikes, the target of the protest (the educational institution or the government) does not suffer a direct economical loss but one of public image.Template:Why
A hunger strike is a deliberate refusal to eat. Hunger strikes are often used in prisons as a form of political protest. Like student strikes, a hunger strike aims to worsen the public image of the target.
A "sickout", or (especially by uniformed police officers) "blue flu", is a type of strike action in which the strikers call in sick. This is used in cases where laws prohibit certain employees from declaring a strike. Police, firefighters, and air traffic controllers are among the groups commonly barred from striking: usually by state and federal laws meant to ensure the safety and/or security of the general public. So are teachers in some U.S. states (see below). Workers have sometimes circumvented these restrictions by falsely claiming inability to work due to illness.
Newspaper writers may withhold their names from their stories as a way to protest actions of their employer.[4]
- Main article: Strikebreaker
A strikebreaker is someone who continues to work during strike action by trade unionists or temporary and permanent replacement workers hired to take the place of those on strike. Strikebreakers are commonly given derogatory terms like scab and blackleg. The act of working during a strike – whether by strikebreakers, management personnel, non-unionized employees or members of other unions not on strike – is known as crossing the picket line, regardless of whether it involves actually physically crossing a line of picketing strikers. Crossing a picket line can result in passive and/or active retaliation against that working person.
The classic example from United Kingdom industrial history is that of the miners from Nottinghamshire, who during the 1984-85 miners' strike did not support strike action by fellow mineworkers in other parts of the country. Those who supported the strike claimed that this was because they enjoyed more favourable mining conditions and thus better wages. However, the Nottinghamshire miners argued that they did not participate because the law required a ballot for a national strike and their area vote had seen around 75% vote against a strike.
Irwin, Jones, McGovern (2008) believe that the term 'scab' is part of a larger metaphor involving strikes. They argue that the picket line is symbolic of a wound and those who break its borders to return to work are the scabs who bond that wound. Others have argued that the word is not a part of a larger metaphor but, rather, originates from the old-fashioned English insult, "scab." The OED gives the etymology of 'scab' in this sense as a term of abuse or depreciation derived from the MDu. schabbe, applied to women with the senses 'slut' and 'scold' and 'scurvy'.
"Blackleg" is an older word and is found in the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century folk song from Northumberland, Blackleg Miner. The term does not necessarily owe its origins to this tune of unknown origin. The song is, however, notable for its lyrics that encourage violent acts against strikebreakers.
Union strikebreakingEditThe concept of union strikebreaking or union scabbing refers to any circumstance in which union workers, who normally might be expected to honor picket lines established by fellow working folk during a strike, are inclined or compelled to cross those picket lines or, in some manner, otherwise engage in workplace activity which may prove injurious to the strike.
Unionized workers are sometimes required to cross the picket lines established by other unions due to their organizations having signed contracts which include no-strike clauses. The no-strike clause typically requires that members of the union not conduct any strike action for the duration of the contract; such actions are called sympathy or secondary strikes. Members who honor the picket line in spite of the contract frequently face discipline, for their action may be viewed as a violation of provisions of the contract. Therefore, any union conducting a strike action typically seeks to include a provision of amnesty for all who honored the picket line in the agreement that settles the strike.
No-strike clauses may also prevent unionized workers from engaging in solidarity actions for other workers even when no picket line is crossed. For example, striking workers in manufacturing or mining produce a product which must be transported. In a situation where the factory or mine owners have replaced the strikers, unionized transport workers may feel inclined to refuse to haul any product that is produced by strikebreakers, yet their own contract obligates them to do so.
Historically the practice of union strikebreaking has been a contentious issue in the union movement, and a point of contention between adherents of different union philosophies. For example, supporters of industrial unions, which have sought to organize entire workplaces without regard to individual skills, have criticized craft unions for organizing workplaces into separate unions according to skill, a circumstance that makes union strikebreaking more common. Union strikebreaking is not, however, unique to craft unions.
Methods used by employers to deal with strikesEdit
Most strikes called by unions are somewhat predictable; they typically occur after the contract has expired. However, not all strikes are called by union organizations — some strikes have been called in an effort to pressure employers to recognize unions. Other strikes may be spontaneous actions by working people. Spontaneous strikes are sometimes called "wildcat strikes"; they were the key fighting point in May '68; most commonly, they are responses to serious (often life-threatening) safety hazards in the workplace rather than wage or hour disputes, etc.
Whatever the cause of the strike, employers are generally motivated to take measures to prevent them, mitigate the impact, or to undermine strikes when they do occur.
Strike preparationEdit
Companies which produce products for sale will frequently increase inventories prior to a strike. Salaried employees may be called upon to take the place of strikers, which may entail advance training. If the company has multiple locations, personnel may be redeployed to meet the needs of reduced staff.
Companies may also take out strike insurance prior to an anticipated strike, to help offset the losses which the strike would cause.
Strike breakingEdit
Some companies negotiate with the union during a strike; other companies may see a strike as an opportunity to eliminate the union. This is sometimes accomplished by the importation of replacement workers, strikebreakers or "scabs". Historically, strike breaking has often coincided with union busting. It was also called 'Black legging' in the early 20th century, during the Russian socialist movement.[5]
Union bustingEdit
- Main article: Union busting
One method of inhibiting a strike is elimination of the union that may launch it, which is sometimes accomplished through union busting. Union busting campaigns may be orchestrated by labor relations consultants, and may utilize the services of labor spies, or asset protection services. Similar services may be engaged during attempts to defeat organizing drives. A modern example of a union buster is The Burke Group.
Another counter to a strike is a lockout, the form of work stoppage in which an employer refuses to allow employees to work. Two of the three employers involved in the Caravan park grocery workers strike of 2003-2004 locked out their employees in response to a strike against the third member of the employer bargaining group. Lockouts are, with certain exceptions, lawful under United States labor law.
Historically, some employers have attempted to break union strikes by force. One of the most famous examples of this occurred during the Homestead Strike of 1892. Industrialist Henry Clay Frick sent private security agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strike at a Homestead, Pennsylvania steel mill. Two strikers were killed, 12 wounded, along with two Pinkertons killed and 11 wounded. In the aftermath, Frick was shot twice in the neck and then stabbed twice by Alexander Berkman, surviving the attack. Generally, though, Carnegie and J.P. Morgan, as well as other Capitalists, have used the US Military to gun down and kill strikers, such as in the Seattle General Strike, the Haymarket Massacre, the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, during the 2006 Oaxaca protests, the Toledo Autolite Strike, the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, among dozens and dozens of other strikes.
See alsoEdit
- Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
- General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
- Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
- Prison strike, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike
- Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
- Sex strike, when one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals
- Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class
- Norwood, Stephen H. Strikebreaking and Intimidation. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 0807827053
- Silver, Beverly J. Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0521520770
- Smith, Stephanie. Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN 0816645531
- ↑ François Daumas, (1969). Ägyptische Kultur im Zeitalter der Pharaonen, pp. 309. Knaur Verlag, Munich
- ↑ John Romer, Ancient Lives; the story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers. London: Phoenix Press, 1984, pp. 116-123 See also E.F. Wente, "A letter of complaint to the Vizier To", in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 20, 1961 and W.G. Edgerton , "The strikes in Ramses III's Twenty-ninth year", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 9, 1950.
- ↑ "A body of sailors..proceeded..to Sunderland.., and at the cross there read a paper, setting forth their grievances... After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour, and struck (lowered down) their yards, in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea." (Ann. Reg. 92, 1768), quoted in Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.v. "strike, v.," sense 17; see also sense 24.
- ↑ http://www.twincities.com/ci_12856270
- ↑ Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, p. 60.
External linksEdit
- News and histories of strikes from around the world
- "Black Workers and the Labor Movement: Toward a Paradigm of Unity in Afro-American Studies." Intro to Afro-American Studies. eBlackStudies.com.
- Labour Law Profile: Ireland
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Hi..I am a newbie in JavaScript.I have two forms (in two different webpages) all with radio buttons. A user cannot select more than one option from each form. My plan is to pass the user input from both the forms to a perl script which would then query a MySQL db for the output and display it.Now my question is, is it possible to pass the data from first form to second using GET/POST method in Radio form? Will it be possible to pass both data from first and second form into the Perl code?My first form page named as index.html page and the second one is named as party_names.html.The form code I used in the first index.html page is:
<form action="party_names.html" method=post name="Candidate_name" ENCTYPE= text/plain onsubmit="return form_validation(this)">
I have a JavaScript function to validate form data so that it can check whether a radio button is selected after clicking next button to go to next html form page. Please suggest.Many thanks in advance..
The better way is to submit the form to server-side code, so that you can retrieve the submitted form data (as either POST or GET) and put the values in hidden form fields or in session data for the next page.
Hi thanks for your reply. Basically I will supply the variables in Perl at the end to interact with MySQL DB with my variables. My second form will have a code like this
<FORM action="myscript.pl" method=POST
..But for that I want to make sure that user selected variables (from two different forms) are going to pass to the script. So you're saying that the GET or POST in both forms will serve the purpose. Am I rite?So the code parts I given in my earlier post and in this post are correct?Thanks again for your reply..
First you need to get the submitted form values from the first page, to show up in the second page. If server-side code will be receiving the submitted form from the second page, then using POST will work well.
No.. server side code (in my case Perl script) should work with the values from both forms. Not only the second one. In this case, POST will work?
If the first page is submitted to a Perl script, and the Perl script is used to create the second page, then POST is good to be used.
Will a Perl script be used to retrieve the first page's submitted data?
The form value from the first page does not show up in second one. Both are different forms and used radio buttons in both forms. But I need the variables from both forms in my Perl script to work.Thanks
Let's work backwards then. If you require the Perl script to receive the values from both forms, that must mean that the second form has to contain the values from the first form. Preferably as hidden values in the second form, right?
The first page has a next button. So after selecting a Radio button, user clicks Next butto and goes to the next Form and selects a Radio button from a different form. Now I want the selections from both forms to be passed in Perl.So my first page contains this code:
and it takes me to the secnd page and the second page has a submit button to go to Perl script..Thanks
that must mean that the second form has to contain the values from the first form. Preferably as hidden values in the second form, right?
Yes.. right
Okay, good. So you need a way to modify the second form so that the first-form values are added to it.
With JavaScript that can only be done as a GET submission, and it is guaranteed to fail when client-side scripting is not available.
With server-side code, you can use either GET or POST submissions, and it's guaranteed to work regardless of whether clisnet-side scripting is supported or not.
Should I send you all the codes?
With JavaScript that can only be done as a GET submission, and it is guaranteed to fail when client-side scripting is not available.With server-side code, you can use either GET or POST submissions, and it's guaranteed to work regardless of whether client-side scripting is supported or not.
No. I don't do any work for you. Instead I will help you to find the answers for yourself.
Actually I wanted to send you only the codes of the Form part..but I think I am getting it now...I should work with POST method then...Thanks a lot for your help..

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The good news is that the Rangers crawl out of that dark chasm today and that, from today until the day they're eliminated from the playoffs (or dancing with the Cup) the rest of the games will be televised. (how spoiled we've gotten).
MSG Network will do the three remaining preseason games, starting today at 1 p.m. in Henrik Lundqvist's homecoming in Sweden. I will be able to catch that game, but probably not the games Sunday and Monday, so if anybody wants to review those, drop me an e-mail at email@example.com.
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Hey all. If I create a website for free on Google Sites, can I use an ftp client to upload to there?
Seems [not at the moment, though there are some [URL="http://www.cumucloud.com/blog/2010/03/ftp-for-google-sites-google-docs/"]partial solutions](https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/sites/share-an-idea/lK27RwLg7D4) for that. GWYPF
What I really meant was can I upload my personal webpage to the site...or is that the same thing and I'm just dumb?
I presume it's the same thing ... but I'm not familiar with Google Sites. I don't trust free hosting anyway. You can get decent hosting for a few $$$ per month, so why not do that?
I would like to suggest you to use a paid hosting service for your website.
I would suggest the same thing, but it's only really for testing...when I shoot up my personal site, I'll use that.
I don't trust free hosting anyway.
But I do trust Google
For testing what? Because it's different from having real hosting, I'm not sure what you will learn. You can set up your own domain and a cheap hosting account and experiment on that—whether or not your proper site is up yet. Just sayin'.
Why not test locally?
I mean, that's what I do now - if I need to share w/ SPF, I put it in my Dropbox.
I guess that's working fine.
Ralph - testing websites and mainly sharing them w/ SPF.
Google doesn't support ftp.
Ah, gotcha. Your probably best to go with a hosting plan like Ralph said then.
There are lots of things that work differently locally compared with over http – testing locally is a good first step, but you really do need to test on a live site to make sure you've covered all bases.
I'd agree with ralph.m. Set up your own domain on a cheap hosting account, and you can post your "proper" site to it when you're ready. Set up a folder/subdomain/whatever on that domain, use robots.txt to exclude it so it doesn't appear on the search engines, and use that for testing/playing/experimenting to your hearts content.
That'll all come later. Just a temporary solution, really.
I think the point we're all trying to make is that, for the sake of about $25 p.a., you could have a simple, straight-forward solution that doesn't require any jiggery-pokery to make it work. Why do things the hard way?
Yeah. I gotcha guys. Was only wondering.
Is cPanel even offered with Google hosting? I never like it when a host doesn't provide a good control panel or peppers their own version with advertising and such.
They have a small one - it's mostly a weebly-esque online WYSIWYG editor.


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Today, this blog offers a year end assessment of three crucial issues that relate to this: the supply side in the US; China's attempt to control its credit bubble; and the ECB's belief that there is no deflation threat in the euro area. At least one of these questions is likely to be the defining macro issue of 2014 and beyond. Read more


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The online survey of 1,439 consumers didn't define "eco-friendly." For homeowners in the south, an important eco-friendly feature might be energy-efficient air conditioning, says Leslie Piper, consumer housing specialist with Realtor.com. But in another part of the country, it might mean solar panels. Because of the disparities, the survey let respondents decide how to define the term.
Overall, respondents say energy-efficient appliances, lighting and air conditioning were among the most desired eco-friendly home features, Piper says, with nearly 80 percent of respondents saying they want all three.
Piper says a majority of respondents who currently live in an eco-friendly home are older than 40 and have children. She attributes that to a higher level of education about environmentalism. "In the 1970s, you saw people who recycled bottles or cans for the cash or did composting," she says. Ten or 15 years later, people began putting more thought into how to be environmental in their homes, especially when they had children, she adds. "It's becoming more of an everyday routine that brings about awareness."
In her experience as a realtor, Piper says she has seen clients take advantage of a range of eco-friendly options, from simply changing light bulbs or installing low-flow shower heads and water filters to the more complicated and expensive, such as replacing single-pane windows or installing solar panels.
The additional cost of an eco-friendly home would depend on what features it contains and where it's located, Piper says. In the survey, more than 70 percent say they believe eco-friendly features add monetary value to a residence, and 68 percent say they would pay more for it. Of those who would pay more, the majority -- 24 percent – indicate they'd pay 3 percent to 5 percent more. Whether they would actually put their money where their mouth is remains to be seen, but Piper believes the trend toward eco-friendly homes will continue to grow. Builders are already responding, she says. "Green homes are in high demand, and people want recognition for living in a green home."
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- Ronald Weasley: "Told them I was Stan Shunpike. First person I could think of."
- Harry Potter: "And they believed that?"
- Ronald Weasley: "They weren't the brightest. One of them was definitely part troll, the smell of him…"
- — Ronald Weasley tells Harry Potter and Hermione Granger about his encounter with Snatchers in 1997.[src]
Part-trolls are, apparently, beings with some, but not a total, amount of troll heritage or blood, as well as part human blood.[1][2]
Part-trolls are, apparently, aggressive individuals[1] with a troll's characteristic foul smell.[2]
Behind the scenes
- It is unknown whether the term 'part-troll' describes an actual human/troll cross-breed or if it is just a derogatory phrase used to insult large, aggressive, and foul-smelling wizards and witches. Given the context in which it appears in the novels (described as a small instance of humour), the latter is most likely.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 11 (Quidditch)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 19 (The Silver Doe)


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Haswell at IDF 2012: 10W is the New 17Wby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2012 2:52 PM EST
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JarredWalton - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI'm going to be very curious to see if Intel can do something to dramatically reduce the amount of power their iGPU uses under load. Currently, HD 4000 at 1.1GHz can use around 10-12W, while the CPU portion of an IVB ULV chip can use another 12-16W depending on the task. Put them together and you have to throttle part of the chip in order to stay within a 17W TDP. At 10W TDP, I can't see Intel getting much better than HD 4000 performance. Reply
wicketr - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI would imagine the 17 TDP (and future 10 TDP) does not include the load of the iGPU. Reply
blandge - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIt does. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkHere's the article we did on the topic with the ASUS UX31A:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6194/8 Reply
Khato - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI'm also quite curious to see where it actually lands. In theory much of the reason for Intel's lackluster performance/power efficiency is that they're running a smaller number of EUs at higher frequency. By lowering operating frequency and hence voltage but increasing the number of EUs, performance can increase with lower power, but at the cost of greater die area.
In fact, there's an interesting little experiment that could be done here with IVB - run some basic benchmarks on HD4000 with a maximum graphics frequency of somewhere in the 600MHz-800MHz range and decreased graphics voltage to compare against stock HD2500. That'll give a good impression of what kind of power savings is possible with same performance via spending more die space and lowering frequency. Reply
Loki726 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkThere's also a decent amount of improvement they can make on the GPU architecture side to get more of a boost. It should be fun to see where it lands. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI don't think its that simple in Intel's case. Their process is compared to TSMC, lower density, but has much superior drive current characteristics, which allows for higher frequency. It may be better for them to pursue higher clocks and smaller die than with other manufacturers. Reply
JKflipflop98 - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkWho told you that? It's wrong. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkLow double digit increase means something in the teens? If this is marginally faster then IVB, which was marginally faster then SNB, what's prompting people to upgrade if they already have socket 1155? Reply
Shadow_k - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIVB was about 3-7% faster then SNB in terms of CPU performace
their is no point in upgrading from 1155 to 1150. If you want some huge IGP improvements than go for it and lower TDP Reply
umbrel - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI don't think they are aiming at people with 1~2 years old computer. The target for this product should be 3 or more year old PCs.
Compared to those the improvement in performance, TDP and iGPU are not so marginal. Reply
blandge - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkPower and graphics. Haswell is all about low power in the ultrabook and convertible segments, and a sizable incrase in GPU power.
But to answer your question, there is not much reason to upgrade from an i7 2600k @ 1155 to and i7 4xxxK @ 1150.
Granted, Intel doesn't really care about that because ultrabooks are their main concern with Haswell. Reply
jhoff80 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - link... is there ANY possibility of Microsoft getting these in the Surface Pro? I assume it won't have Haswell or better until its successor, but damn I'd love if they ended up delaying Surface Pro just barely long enough to use one of these chips. Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI like your idea. Delay Surface Pro to get these chips in.
And remember to keep that price in balance too. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkNot in Surface Pro, but bet on it being in the second version :) Reply
dagamer34 - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkWhy shouldn't the Surface Pro get the special 10W Ivy Bridge parts. It makes delaying that product all the more believable if it isn't just another run of the mill 17W ULV Ivy Bridge CPU. And you know Microsoft has to get the battery life right to make that product really worth investing in. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkThere really is no difference between 17W IB and a hypothetical 10W IB. With configurable TDP and p-states and all that other jazz you should be able to just throttle down the 17W part so it fits in whatever envelope you need. A good windows tablet would have a 50Wh battery.
It shouldnt be too tough to dissipate 13W without a fan. I consider 13W to be the sweet spot.Keep in mind that even the iPad 3 can easily burn up 10 watts while doing heavy gaming. (I'll bet I could push well past 10W if I ever got my hands on one.) So it shouldnt exactly be rocket science to simply dissipate 30% more heat than the ipad. Reply
EnzoFX - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI long for smaller form factors. ITX being even more streamlined. Smaller everything, PSU's, even cables. Also the idea of cramming these babies into something super small, a nettop I could run a full OS on is always so attractive to me.
With that excitement said, it seems that CPU power is taking a backseat, makes sense as most things aren't cpu bound whatsoever. Are we entering a period where software needs to catch up? Or are we waiting SoC's to catch up? In which case then we'll start seing more well rounded growth on both hardware and software? Reply
dcollins - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkAs a software engineer, I'm incredibly excited about Haswell's support for Hardware Transactional Memory. Please get all of the details you can on that. For the layman, HTM has the potential to radically simplify and speed up mutli-threaded programs since Transactional Memory is currently one of the most promising parallelism techniques and software implementations have a 2-4x slowdown on a per thread basis. Reply
Loki726 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIt is interesting to see companies going in this direction, but don't expect miracles out of HTM. Research efforts have been looking at these issues for at least the last decade.
The progression of these ideas is as follows:
OOO execution [Pentium Pro] -> aggressive OOO (multi-cluster, trace/loop-caches, prefetchers/run-ahead, etc) [Sandybridge] -> HTM [Haswell] -> HW-assisted compiler speculation [1] -> Multi-scalar [2] -> Speculative multi-threading [3]
[1] - A Real System Evaluation of Hardware Atomicity for Software Speculation, ASPLOS 2010
[2] - Multi-Scalar Processors, ISCA 1995
[3] - Bluegene Q
Each one of these comes with diminishing returns for programs with sequential dependences, and are not necessary for truly parallel programs.
For a software engineer, I would suggest exploring either better sequential algorithms for your problem (which are likely to yield much better performance gains than these HW techniques), or explore truly parallel algorithms (conflict/dependency free) that have the potential to scale on a lot of simple cores. Reply
Loki726 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkThe intended target of HW techniques like HTM is software with large investments in big code bases that are hard to rewrite but still need good performance.
If this doesn't describe your project, there are probably better ways to spend your time. Reply
dcollins - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI don't expect to personally reap the benefits of HTM with Haswell. Rather, I am extremely excited by the prospect of where this research could lead us. Reply
dcollins - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI must respectfully disagree. I don't see HTM as a hardware optimization like out of order execution or branch prediction. Rather, it is a low level tool for building compilers and programming languages in a way that was otherwise impractical or even impossible. Developers really need a general purpose tool for sharing memory between threads and transactional memory just might be that tool.
There is a lot of good work being explored in the area of implicit parallelism and lock-free data structures, but some domains just require sharing memory. A good example is game object simulation where you have too many loosely interconnected objects to conceivably achieve good performance with a copy-based or message passing algorithms. Unfortunately, manual locking has proven so difficult for a large system that many game engines still do all of this work in a single thread.
Transactional memory isn't a magic bullet, but it offers a good balance of safety, expressiveness, and average performance. If hardware acceleration can drastically reduce the per-thread cost, it could usher in a new era of widespread threaded programming analogous to the development of virtual memory.
Or it could prove too limited or too complicated or too power expensive and never gain widespread adoption. Reply
Loki726 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkYou're free to disagree, I'm certainly not always right :)
I think there are a lot of similarities of HTM to OOO and branch prediction: they all are forms of speculative execution (yes even OOO because of precise exceptions, etc). With HTM you speculate that a thread that enters a critical section will not update memory in a conflicting way with another thread before it leaves the critical section. You have to be able to save enough state to completely undo all of the effects of the transaction in case it fails. Finally, if it actually does fail, you have to discard all of the work associated with the transaction, and back off in a way that does not cause livelock. That is very similar to how branch prediction speculates that a prediction is correct. I view it as being a much harder form of speculation than branch prediction because you need all to all core communication to decide if a transaction failed, which is significantly more costly than waiting for a branch instruction to complete, and scales terribly with increasing core counts. Other techniques like HW-assisted compiler speculation, multi-scalar, and speculative threading are even harder.
I agree that manual locking is clearly a bad idea, but I think that HTM (and lock-free data structures for that matter) buys into the same flawed programming model as fine-grained locking. Fundamentally, frequent interacting updates to the same memory from multiple threads is a sequential operation that is spread across multiple threads. The fact that you have multiple threads doesn't make it a parallel operation.
Single threads running on a single core are typically better at this type of operation because they avoid all to all communication between threads. This isn't completely true for all programs and all architectures (it assumes that the cost of all to all communication is high and the rate of interacting updates is high), but software transactional memory does just fine if the rate of interaction is low enough, and the cost of all to all communication goes up superlinearly with thread count. HTM plays in the middle, when the rate of interaction is high enough that STM or coarse grained locking has too much overhead, but is still low enough that it is faster to have more than one thread.
People need to and are starting to explore new algorithms that aren't fundamentally sequential.
In your game example with interacting objects, I would argue that there are good parallel algorithms that don't require locks or transactions.
An example would take the following high level form:
1) Record all of the interactions about to be made in parallel by threads during a time step.
2) Organize (sort/group) them based on the objects they interact with. Updates that do not interact should be placed in separate groups.
3) Perform all updates that do not interact in parallel.
4) Perform all updates that do interact using parallel reductions.
Of course this only makes sense if you have a relatively large number of threads. Probably a lot more than the ~4-8 cores on most CPUs these days.
The space of sequential and parallel algorithms for many problems is actually quite well explored, and I would argue that for many non-trivial problems, the gain from using a better sequential algorithm can be much greater than the 2-4x gain you can get from a few cores. Work on parallel algorithms is less mature, especially for problems that aren't close to being data parallel, and many of them need a very large number of threads (tens or hundreds) before they start competing. I don't think that HTM has a place in the highly parallel space because of the all to all communication on each transaction. Reply
dcollins - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkYou have to remember that Haswell includes two different sets of HTM. Hardware Lock Elision functions much like you describe, optimistically granting critical section access to multiple threads then automatically then retrying them sequentially if a collision occurs. Much more interesting is Restricted Transactional Memory which provides an explicit mechanism for performing transactions analagous to familiar database transactions. These instructions could be used to implement an efficient TM system that is impractical on current processors.
I think the simple, unfortunate fact is that we have not yet discovered methods for extracting the kind of implicit parallelism necessary to impliment something like a game engine in the manner you describe. You regularly have several thousand different objects that each *may* interact about a hundred other objects on a given frame.
To "record all interactions made in parallel" is essentially an unsolvable problem, similar to deciding if an arbitrary program will terminate normally. Several research languages attempt to restrict programs in such a way that implicit parallelism can be extracted by the compiler, but they are all either too slow or too challenging/unproductive for the programmer.
Transactional Memory works very well for complex, loosely coupled code because thread conflicts are rare enough that you can achieve good performance. This approach works best when coupled with optimized, pure and easily parallel libraries for computationally intense tasks like physic modelling, data compression, path-finding and the like.
This area of research is still young and very challenging. I am excited to solve these problems and I believe Haswell is a intriguing step in the right direction. Reply
Jaybus - Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - linkMultiple writer threads is sequential only for the worst case, where the writer thread takes as much tor more time than the reader thread(s). Generally, the writer thread will generate data much faster than the reader thread can process it. Consider a writer thread that is reading images from a camera and pushing them into a shared FIFO buffer. Reader threads then pop one image at a time from the shared FIFO and do extensive image processing on them. Say the writer thread takes N ms to read an image and a reader takes 10N to process it. A single-thread process will take 11N ms per image. A multithread process SHOULD scale nearly linearly up to 11 threads and the per image procesing time is reduced to something much closer to N.
That sort of linear scaling is not achievable due to the locking overhead when using a mutex. Using a lock-free approach has many benefits. It guarantees that at least one thread will proceed with work at all times and eliminates deadlock and livelock if done properly with a compare-and-swap instruction. It can be accomplished with the LOCK CMPXCHG instruction in user-mode, but that is an expensive instruction, at least 22 cycles on a Core i-7 and has overhead of its own in that it causes cache coherency issues and negates OOOE.
HTM could appreciably reduce the overhead in lock-free algorithms, but more importantly, it makes lock-free programming far easier and less prone to programmer error. I agree that it still will not scale linearly with many cores, but it is better than what we have now. Ultimately, I think many-core designs will evolve to something like the Intel SSC, rather than SMP chips, and then functional programming will make more sense. Reply
Magichands8 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI think it's really interesting (at the same time disappointing) where the whole industry is going at this point. When AMD essentially gave up competing with Intel in the high performance segment I was disappointed since that meant an end to competition on the high end. But in retrospect I don't think AMD has given up much at all since it looks like Intel has also thrown in the towel when it comes to the high performance market. I get that CPU's have become so powerful that just about any chip will satisfy the average consumer's needs but power users like me have been abandoned. Now, to get the kind of system I want I've either got to wait years for Xeon tech to catch up and end up paying exorbitant prices or settle for more mediocre options from AMD Opterons. And I can't be the only would-be Intel customer now actually considering turning to Opterons for new systems. In a way, it's as if it wasn't AMD who stopped competing but Intel who decided to abandon that segment to it's former rival. And where does that leave all the motherboard makers who are stuck developing ultra premium boards for Intel chips that are years (and years) old? Reply
Loki726 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkI'm just hoping that ARM will catch up to the high end Intel and give them some competition. There's no reason why they or someone else shouldn't be able to do it.
ARM A15 is something like 2-3x slower than Ivybridge at single threaded integer code, and they or someone else can use the same techniques as Intel to catch up. Singled threaded perf isn't going anywhere fast barring a major revolution in device physics.
Just give it time, someone will get it right. Reply
Penti - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIn the mid-range market you already have Power and SPARC. Xeon's are way more reliable and faster then Itanium systems for that matter. So too bad they killed off PA-RISC. But still so in the mid-range server market we got Oracle, IBM, Fujitsu and pretty much on par Intel and AMD. With the players on the market today being totally different service-oriented companies and so much more consolidated to how it was before I don't see much room. ARM aren't even competing against Atom yet. If you think servers or desktops at least. If you really like a small semi-embedded server system you can still turn to PPC and MIPS still, they still do for high-end network processors. ARM might be killing it in consumer products, for multimedia. On the other hand it replaces a plethora of custom VLIW, MIPS, x86, SuperH, Blackfin, ST20, different DSP chips and so on above the basic microcontrollers that is. Not high-performance markets even if they try to get there, it can't compare to 64-bit systems or systems with more then 4GB ram yet. Just because you can create a high-performance 16 core processor or something doesn't mean it will become a workstation CPU, network processors are way more powerful then a Intel quad-core chip yet we won't see MIPS workstations again any time soon and hasn't in more then 10 years. Reply
Loki726 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - link> ARM aren't even competing against Atom yet.
Maybe not in the notebook/netbook consumer space, but the single threaded integer perf is clearly there: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&...
Memory interfaces and floating point are less competitive because of the market segment they are currently in (tablets/phones don't care enough to pay die area/power for them), not architecture reasons.
> Just because you can create a high-performance 16 core processor or something doesn't mean it will become a workstation CPU
Agreed, but that's not what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting that ARM is on a path to rival Intel/AMD's single threaded perf in the next 3-5 years, and if it isn't ARM it will be someone else. Reply
A5 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkWhat are you doing that you think could be significantly improved with more CPU power? Frankly, the days of 50% generation-to-generation gains are long gone. Barring a fundamental change in computer architectures, there isn't much left to do to increase IPC without a gigantic cost in die space.
Intel could certainly be more aggressive with their clocks on retail products, but then there wouldn't be anything for enthusiasts to do ;-).
Games are more GPU dependent and largely tied to console hardware cycles anyway.
Video encoding is better served by GPUs once all the software is updated. Reply
Loki726 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - link> Barring a fundamental change in computer architectures, there isn't much left to do to increase IPC without a gigantic cost in die space.
And even with huge die area increases, your single threaded perf gets killed by longer wires with higher latency. Reply
menting - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkneed to go 3D stacking, which many companies are investing into right now. Reply
Loki726 - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - link3D stacking is the wave of the future, but it won't help single threaded perf any time soon. Heat density degrades the performance of stacked high performance logic layers and vias are still huge (high capacitance) compared to metal layers.
The best we can hope for in the near term from 3D for single threaded codes is another level of cache. Reply
Meaker10 - Friday, September 07, 2012 - linkIVB - 35/45/55 (dual/quad/extreme) for standard models
Haswell - 37/47/57
Thats a listed increase......
If it's configurable we could see better cooled designs being quite a bit faster with the same cpu. Reply
ImSpartacus - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkThat would be neat if they were all 47W and they were configurable up and down to hit the other thermal points. Reply
extide - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkI noticed that as well, but the alignment may be different, ie 37w quad, 47w extreme, 57w desktop maybe?? Reply
iwod - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkSince Haswell has many new instructions, surely with some optimization we could see more benefits then 10%? Reply
haukionkannel - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkIn spesific synthetic test definitely yes, even more. In normal applications... Harder to say... This will be same manufacturing node as ivy, so not much from there, but effiency upgrade seems to be good and that is the most important thing this time. The cpu is fast enough at this moment when compared to competition. Reply
B3an - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - link"The cpu is fast enough at this moment when compared to competition"
Thats the problem. I'm disappointed with CPU performance and clock speeds, and its literally all because of AMD. If they actually made CPU's that were any good and could compete with Intel on performance, or just get close, then we would be seeing much faster stuff by now. Even with just clock speeds alone, its so obviously that Intel could be releasing WAY higher clocked stuff, as proven by how well their CPU's overclock. I've got my i7 running 1.4GHz faster than default speed without much effort.
When there was real competition from AMD (Athlon 64 days) then you would be lucky to overclock a high-end desktop Intel or AMD CPU by just 300MHz because the chips were being pushed to their limits already.
We could be seeing much higher clocked and lower priced CPU's. But obviously Intel have no reason to do this because of AMD's utter failure to compete on performance. This is exactly why competition is always needed. Reply
mrdude - Saturday, September 08, 2012 - linkI've been waiting for some Haswell news and this sounds great :) I'm sure many people are disappointed that HW isn't going to bring that 20%+ performance bump but, frankly, people have way more CPU than they need. Recompiling for modern ISAs and software optimization potentially brings far more gains than any IPC and clock speed gains Intel can manage to squeeze out. The fact that this isn't happening is another matter, though.
I'm interested to see what the performance of the new on-die GPU will bring. The current Ultrabooks are just abysmal with only a few standouts and that mainly due to the other goodies -- the Zenbook with it's great IPS panel and the Samsung Series 9s with their great panel as well. I'm hoping HW is able to inject some more sense into the platform with lower GPU throttling and better GPU performance. Maturation of the 22nm node and some price decreases wouldn't hurt either ;) Reply
UpSpin - Sunday, September 09, 2012 - linkOn the one hand it's a bit disappointing that Haswell won't be worth an upgrade for CPU speed addicts.
But let's face the current trend:
People want ultraportable devices with long battery life, which ARM rules at the moment. Smartphones and tablets are a huge market, probably much larger than the PC business. So Intel has to compete in this low power sector to stay alive.
People want high resolution displays, but therefore you need a powerful GPU, which Intel doesn't has. So Intel must improve GPU performance in order to drive high resolution displays with the IGP.
More and more programs switch to GPU for parallel processing tasks to speed up the task by magnitudes, impossible with traditional CPU improvements. AMD understood this with their APUs, Intel must follow.
An increase in clock frequency causes higher power consumption. Multiple cores, which can get disabled individually however are faster in the sum and consume less power in idle. So better integrate many smaller cores than few large ones, if power consumption is important, which it is.
Thus Intel will follow AMD most probably and stop trying to release faster and faster CPUs and focus on parallel computing and GPU acceleration.
ARM on the other hand does everything at the same time. They have the big.LITTLE tech to save power, A15 to improve per core performance, develop 64bit cores and constantly scale up their GPU performance, but ARM has the advantage that many companies further develop ARM processors.
ARM products get sold in the currently most active market, Intel has no real competition there. On the other hand people won't upgrade their old computers because Haswell doesn't offer any visible advantage except reduced power consumption.
If Win 8 on Intel tablets isn't a success, Intel will face a hard time. Reply
azazel1024 - Monday, September 10, 2012 - linkI doubt it. Intel ships tons of processors in new systems that people buy all the time who are upgrading from much older systems. There have been rare times that Intel has released something that is such an upgrade that whole scads of enthusiats abandoned their last generation processor and adopted the new one.
Gains over most generations have been in the 10-20% range in the last few releases. In large part it has less to do with no competition with AMD, though that helps, and more focusing on things like power consumption and iGPU.
Yeah, I want better CPU performance as well, as do most people, but CPU performance IS good enough for 90% of consumers out there, but iGPU performance is NOT good enough for 90% of consumers. Especially in the mobile sector if you want even higher resolution displays. As mentioned earlier, combine that with some of the things you can do with GPGPU computing along side of the CPU and the way to go, for now, is the concentrate most of your effort on lowering package power consumption as well as improving the GPU. If you can improve CPU performance along the way, then great, but it isn't critical.
Besides, lower power consumption, increased GPU performance and increased CPU performance sounds good to me in the mobile space BIG time. For a desktop system lower power consumption and increased CPU performance is nice (discrete GPU there just about always). I can always use quieter and cooler running desktop machines. Alas my life where I must wait 2 or 3 years between CPU generations to get "worthwhile" upgrade, which could still mean a 25-40% increase in performance over 2-3 generations as well as probably lower power consumption.
My games don't run slow because my 3570 running at 4Ghz can't cope. PS is just snappy as can be. My transcodes are pretty fast too. Oh, I'd love them to be faster, but going from 30s to export a dozen RAW files to JPEGs to 15s doesn't change my life significantly. Going from a 2hr BR->1080p transcode to 1hr is nice, but doesn't change my life that dramatically (not until we are getting in to take a few minutes to reencode a video file, then it might change my life).
I went from a C2D E7500~3.1Ghz to a 3570@4Ghz (4.2 turbo). Transcode performance improved 5x on average! Ballpark performance improvements in photo editing and some other stuff too that is heavily multithreaded. The ultrabook with a 3517u in it manages about 1.4-1.8x faster performance than my old C2D desktop does as well! I am pretty happy overall with CPU performance. Sure, I want improvements, but they stopped being game changers for me.
Now once 14nm is reached, lets start talking maybe hexa or octocore for mainstream desktops and laptops please. That could be a bit of a game changer too in heavily threaded stuff compared to current day improvements Reply


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Pope Benedict XVI has a new Twitter handle. Starting today on you can also call him @pontifex. That's Latin for "bridge builder". The Vatican says His Holiness will personally send his first Tweet from the account on Dec. 12 to celebrate the feast day of "Our Lady of Guadalupe". Actually, The Pope has Tweeted before on the main, @vaticannews account - announcing the news.va Web site. The new account is asking for questions from Tweeters in English (with separate aliases for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Polish and Arabic). He, and presumably a large number of advisers, will try to answer as many of the queries as possible. Vatican officials say there are currently a number of non-official Papal accounts on Twitter. They're hoping that the launch of the Pope's new account will put an end to the fake ones. The Pope chose Twitter over Facebook ( FB), according to The Daily Beast. Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, described Facebook as "too personal," adding that "it just doesn't seem like the right vehicle for the pope's message at this time." There's no word from Rome on whether Pope Benedict is also considering a Google+ ( GOOG) account. --Written by Gary Krakow in New York. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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John Gallagher's June 2014 Video Provides Overview of How Willful Misconduct is Defined Under Pennsylvania Law, and What Happens at an Unemployment Hearing Before a Referee
Pennsylvania Unemployment Appeal Lawyer Representing Employees With Referee hearings in Norristown, Bristol, Springfield, Malvern and Phiadelphia
Willful Misconduct is the term used to deny Unemployment Benefits to employees who have been terminated from work because they did something wrong. The term implies intentional bad conduct.
|This is Willful Misconduct
1) Repeatedly violating a work rule after warning. This typically applies to work rules governing attendance, break times, internet use, etc.
2) Engaging in a single bad act: This typically involves acts of dishonesty such as falsifying time records or other company forms, insubordination (like refusing to do work assigned by supervisor), stealing money, coming to work intoxicated, yelling/cursing at a co-worker or customer, using derogatory language denigrating a race, sex, religion, etc., or surfing porn on the Internet at work, etc.
3) A single act that is "grossly negligent." Typical examples include having an accident with a company vehicle in which you are cited, damaging company property by handling machinery in a careless fashion, etc. Sleeping on the job is often included within this category.
The established test for what constitutes willful misconduct is set forth in this excerpt from a 1977 Pennsylvania case called UCBOR v. Vereen:
As a general principle in order to deny unemployment compensation benefits to an employee, his or her action must involve a wanton or willful disregard of the employer's interest, a deliberate violation of the employer's rules, a disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has the right to expect of his employees, or negligence in such degree or recurrence as to manifest culpability, wrongful intent, or evil design, or show an intentional and substantial disregard of the employer's interests or of the employee's duties and obligations to the employer.
This standard is well understood by Pennsylvania Unemployment Referees, and by many employers. If you go to your Referee Hearing without a similar understanding, it can be very difficult to win. That is why consideration of retaining an experienced unemployment lawyer is a must.
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Here is another video, shot in 2010, that also discusses "willful misconduct." It may help you gain an even fuller understanding of what willful misconduct is, and how it is proved.
Is My Alleged Poor Performance Willful Misconduct Under Pennsylvania Unemployment Law?
It is well-established that mere poor performance does not constitute willful misconduct.
However, beware - many employers who terminate employees because they are perceived "poor performers" know that they will have to pay unemployment benefits unless they can prove the employee engaged in willful misconduct. Knowing this, they frequently try and create an atmosphere or situation that will cause the targeted employee to do something "stupid," like walk off the job, yell or curse at a co-worker, refuse to do an assigned task, etc.
We refer to such strategical firings as "pretextual terminations." The real reason for the firing is alleged poor performance, but the stated reason for the firing is behavior the employer claims constitutes willful misconduct.
If you believe to are the target of your employer's strategical efforts to fire you, you may want to consider calling an attorney to help you develop a counter strategy. I frequently work "behind the scenes" with targeted employees, and help them secure their right to unemployment benefits, and sometimes more (i.e. severance).
How Does an Employer Prove Willful Misconduct at a Pennsylvania Unemployment Hearing Before a Referee?
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One difficult aspect of a willful misconduct case is dealing with the evidence that is presented at a (which is where disputed claims are decided).
Hearing before an Unemployment Referee
Prior to the Hearing, you have little opportunity to "discover" what the employer is going to present as evidence at the Hearing. Typically, in fact, the best you can do is go to the Hearing location a few days before the Hearing and review the file. There, you will find the Employer's Questionnaire and any documents submitted by the employer to the Unemployment Service Center (the people that initially determine if you have engaged in willful misconduct). Preparing for a willful misconduct hearing can therefore be difficult.
The Employer Has the Burden of Proof at a Pennsylvania Unemployment Hearing and Therefore Must Present its Case First
Understanding each party's burden of proof, and what that means, is essential. Click Here to jump to our Post discussing key issues relating to burdens of proof.
Here is our 2010 video discussing what happens at an Unemployment Referee Hearing in Pennsylvania:
How to Stop Hearsay at a Pennsylvania Unemployment Hearing
Having done your best to anticipate the witnesses and evidence to be presented, perhaps the most critical issue is: what to do about hearsay?
|Excluding Hearsay Essential
Of course, the trick is knowing when to object to what, a difficult task for the average layperson experiencing the stress of an Unemployment Hearing.
Many cases are won or lost based upon the ability to get in or keep out evidence. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you get only one shot at winning your unemployment appeal (at the Unemployment Hearing), so being prepared for your Hearing is essential.
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Suspect in alleged pellet gun shooting pleads "not guilty"
Christian John Kay plead "not guilty" today in court for charges stemming from an alleged pellet gun shooting that injured two Eureka High Students back in November.
The 18-year-old was arrested on November 14— a week after allegedly shooting a pellet gun from an apartment balcony at a group of students during lunch break. Two of the students received injuries and one had to be hospitalized. The students have since recovered.
The incident occurred about a third of a mile from the school, but still raised questions from parents why the school wasn't locked down.
Kay was suspended from school and is facing charges for assault with a deadly weapon.
He's due back in court for a preliminary hearing on January 22.


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As most of you are probably aware by now, Adobe made some exciting announcements today during the Google I/O keynote pertaining to the immediate availability of the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack extension. This extension provides initial support for HTML5 and CSS3 in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, and helps you easily create HTML5 pages and CSS3 styles.
Below is a brief list of resources that launched in support of this announcement:
You can download the extension from Adobe Labs.
Some supporting content around the announcement:
- Article: Using the HTML5 Pack for Dreamweaver CS5
- Video: Introducing the Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack<
- Discussion Forum: Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack


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FED-up lecturers marched through the streets of Winchester in hopes of negotiating a pay increase.
The strike yesterday (January 28), which is the second of three planned walk-outs, saw around 20 lecturers and senior members of staff grab their placards, drums and megaphones outside of the University of Winchester's King Alfred Campus.
The march comes after it was announced in December that the University's Vice Chancellor, Professor Joy Carter, would receive a £28,000 a year pay rise, or 12.6 per cent - six times the rate of inflation.
Lecturers however, say they were offered a one per cent rise, so in real terms, a 13 per cent cut of their salaries since 2008.
Simon Boxley, University and College Union Branch Secretary, said lecturers had hoped that after the first walk-out on January 23 more would be done to accommodate negotiations on fair pay.
He said: "We had hoped not to be here again and that after our first strike we would get our employers around the negotiation table.
"We know the money is there, but it is not being invested in the people who really benefit the students most.
"We have more tricks up our sleeves, and we will strike again. We don't want to but we will if we have to."