Salah’s Blog

The Problem
The workers at the Escondida site in Chile, South America, turned down an offer of $32,000 in bonuses and a 4% pay rise over three years, the staff members and now wanting a 10% pay rise, down from their initial 13% call. The workers had a strike at the largest privately-owned copper mine.

Who is affected and how?
The workers are affected by having the company shut down causing the workers to be jobless. This one incident can cause many big problems such as having no money to feed your children or even worse live on the streets of your town and live as a begger, such problems can easily affect your life just by being jobless. Besides it is the worker’s fault to be jobless, just because of the strike they had.

This is my url of the Event: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5269898.stm

This is my url of the Homework: http://mkis6.edublogs.org/2006/08/22/block-h-homework-23-august-2006/

   What I have learned about current events is that they happen each and every moment of time, they might be cultural, political, social, and maybe economic events but mostly cultural, political, and social events. I have learned that the people who are involved in many ways get affected in different ways such as maybe the president of the USA  dies in a aeroplane crash with the vice pres. of the USA then they are affected because their country won’t have a leader and everyone would fighting and debating. That would be a political event, as for a social event it would probably be like a celebrity getting married. For a cultural event it would have to do with cultures or reliogions. I have also learned that current events also show us on how much we can imrove in things or what we can do to make the world a better place etc….. Current events are a great part of our world that take place every moment we think of something, and that we should always be informed by these outstanding reports!