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  • I’m having some problems with my employees
    2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    These people did everything but slip me cash under the table to get me to hire them.
    They showed me references out the wa-zoo
    They said they knew how to DO the job.. in fact had lots of experience
    They knew that the job required some researching and involved a learning curve
    They assured me they were willing to do what it took to do the work
    They knew that I would be watching how they progressed, and now they act all pissed off whenever I mention something to them that would help (…)

  • Democrats create Wealth & Jobs
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    SHOCK & AWE------------------------ DEMOCRATS CREATE WEALTH AND JOBS----------- 1.From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003 2.Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years. 3.Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs — Republicans 36,440,000. 4.Per Year Average-Democrats 1,825,200---Republicans 856,400. 5.Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession. 6.Republicans had a recession/depression in 177 months and Democrats in 32 months. (…)

  • Making America work for the working poor
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Edwards and John Wilhelm
    IT USED TO BE that poverty was invisible in America. When Michael Harrington published ’’The Other America" in 1960, he wrote about the unseen millions living in inner-city housing projects, in Appalachia, in rural America. The poor were stuck in isolated ghettos, dying towns, and industries that Harrington called the economic underworld of American life. As the rest of the country went to work and prospered, the poor were bypassed.
    Our nation launched a (…)

  • Labor movement gets a face-lift
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane M. Von Bergen
    "Awesome night," said Stephani Passaro, 21, shivering as she ducked into a minivan after a cold night knocking on doors this week in Bensalem’s suburban cul-de-sacs to talk about issues affecting working families.
    It was awesome. No dogs chased Passaro and her nine fellow canvassers. Hardly anyone slammed doors on them, and they signed up 275 members to Working America, a 1.2-million-member grassroots affiliate of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of (…)

  • US group implants electronic tags in workers
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Waters in San Francisco
    An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
    CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.
    Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the (…)

  • NAFTA and Nativism
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    Everybody talks about globalization; nobody ever does anything about it. The world labor market looms over every horizon with its promise of cheaper goods and lower pay. The public is skeptical, rightly, about the benefits of globalization, but the process of harnessing it, of writing enforceable rules that would benefit not just investors but most of our citizens, is hard to even conceive. And so globalization is experienced by many Americans as a loss of control. (…)

  • In Search of Solidarity
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Christopher Hayes
    It’s a week before the holidays in New York City and there’s a transit strike. A strike? In 2005? It seems an anachronism, like meat rations or air raid drills. There’s a frisson of excitement in the air mixed with logistical dread and disbelief.
    The morning the strike begins, billionaire mayor Mike Bloomberg accuses the largely black and Latino union of acting "thuggishly" and then proceeds to class-bait the transit workers. "You’ve got people making $50,000 and (…)

  • Migden bill raises health care ante for biggest state firms
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    SACRAMENTO
    Requires 8% payout for worker benefits, or Medi-Cal funding
    by Greg Lucas
    Sacramento — California’s largest employers would be required to prop up the state’s medical insurance program for the poor if they don’t offer their workers generous enough health benefits under a bill set for introduction in the Senate.
    Modeled after a law passed earlier this month in Maryland that only affected mega-retailer Wal-Mart, the California legislation would require employers of more than (…)

  • To Make Coal Mines Safer, Industry Should Look Abroad
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Make Coal Mines Safer, Industry Should Look Abroad USA Today Opinion 2/2/2006 When 72 miners were trapped 3,500 feet down in a Canadian mine by a fire that started early Sunday, the frightening episode ended 26 hours later with the last of the miners emerging unscathed and exuberant.
    What saved their lives?
    They retreated to "safe rooms" scattered throughout the potash mine, where they sealed themselves off from poisonous vapors, drew on supplies of oxygen and food, and waited to (…)

  • Iraqi unions launch united struggle
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Susan Webb
    Iraq’s labor movement has formed a united permanent coordinating committee to “make its positions known” to the Iraqi government, and to challenge the dictates of international financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
    Six union federations, including two Kurdish labor organizations, issued a joint statement, Jan. 16, stressing “the importance of complete sovereignty for Iraq over its petroleum and natural resources” to “develop them in a (…)