Dear Melanie and futureworkfriends
My reply, below went off too quickly - I hope it didn't feel abrupt -
apologies.
My extended comment is this:
The whole move towards (co-operative) team working, in clusive, active
communities, local democracy, school parent govenors and etc needs to be
time-resourced.
Earlier in the year, our Campaign hosted a group of people from New Zealand
(the Human Rights 2000 Project) that seeks to bring to national governments'
attention the legal requirement (or so i understand it) to resouce their
citizens to be active human rights monitoring citizens.
Thus my call for a less-than-35 hour (paid) working week.
I envisage, for example, that paid work (bashing molecules and etc around)
take place on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and, that, wednesday
be 'The Community Action' day - for all - when Council Meetings take place,
community focusing goes on and etc.
This, of course, has implications for the nature of 'work' during the
four-day 'working' week - a call, therefore, for William Morris' "More
useful work, less useless toil."
And, hence my All Singing and All Dancing Co-operative Solutions Set (did I
post that to f-work ?)
Hugs 2,4,from all,
j
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From: "john courtneidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Melanie Milanich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 35 hour week
Date: Thu, Oct 7, 1999, 8:47 pm
It's too long
j
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>From: Melanie Milanich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: 35 hour week
>Date: Wed, Oct 6, 1999, 5:31 pm
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>With all the protests by businesses (and the threats to lay off staff)
>against the 35 hour work week, its implementation next year seems
>shaky. Analysts say that France is going against the trend in the rest
>of Europe to part-time and temporary employment and will not be able to
>compete. What do you people think about the potential of the 35 hour
>week for paid permanent employment? Who is still advocating it and
>where?
>Melanie
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