Just a thought on this thread.
Harry keeps harping on the illegal actions of the state supremes. I
wonder why Harry doesn't say anything about the illegal actions of
Harris Jeb to deny people their right to vote? We gotta slap those
supremes but no remedy for those denied their rights. Of
Jospin's nonsensical 35-hour week in France has now been scrapped -- only a
few months after small employers were forced to adopt it.
The only sector of the French economy which would have achieved Jospin's
aim -- that of creating more jobs -- was government employment. But this,
of course, was
Keith Hudson wrote,
Jospin's nonsensical 35-hour week in France has now been scrapped -- only
a
few months after small employers were forced to adopt it.
It would be immensely valuable to me, Keith, if you would elaborate on why
you call the 35-hour week nonsensical. I know very well that
Dennis,
Absolutely!
Bill Ward
The current Administrations appear to be imprisoning citizens
without access to Constitutionally proscribed access to legal
council.
I would consider this much more of an impeachable offense than
lieing
about an affair. Don't you?
Dennis Paull
Half
At 05:25 04/09/02 -0700, Tom Walker wrote:
(KH)
Jospin's nonsensical 35-hour week in France has now been scrapped -- only a
few months after small employers were forced to adopt it.
(TW)
It would be immensely valuable to me, Keith, if you would elaborate on why
you call the 35-hour week
Oops - Freudian! The word below should have been 'play' in the best
Clintonesque sense.
Bill Ward
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:42:41 -0400 William B Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Keith,
What we have may not be a crisis but a reallignment. The information
age
has made it possible to lay around
Two works of fiction explore aspects of this: American Psycho by Bret
Ellis and Timothy Findley's Headhunter.
Brian McAndrews
I should preface my response to Keith by observing that the French
government's scrapping of the 35-hour week may turn out to be one of the
all-time great empty gestures. It's likely that there will be little in the
way of roll-backs of successfully implemented 35-hour weeks and it's
possible
Further on the issue of the left-wing Guardian having the last word on the
French election and the 35-hour law:
Anders Hayden wrote:
Although the increase in the overtime quota is not good news for shorter
work
time in France, I think the Guardian is being rather over-dramatic in
talking
[Time to bring the corporations off their psycho paths !]
[snip]
Evil lurks at the top?
MD urges screening CEOs for psychopaths
In popular vernacular, psychopath is associated with violent, kinky
sex, serial and mass murder, cannibalism and other extremes of
spectacular, slasher flick
U.S. Feared a Nuclear Argentina
Policy: Hoping to win the
regime's support for a ban in the 1970s, America curbed its opposition to the
'dirty war,' documents show.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-dirty23aug23.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes
Laid-Off
Workers
Ed Weick wrote:
Chris, it wasn't like that. We thought we had it pretty good.
^^^
Well, some wage slaves in Burmese sweatshops also *think* they have it
pretty good (after all, it's better than starving or being gunned down
by death squads). But I'd
Tom,
We actually disagree far less than you imagine. For the sake of those FWers
who can't stand long quotes I'm going to extract:
At 08:41 04/09/02 -0700, you wrote:
(TW)
I should preface my response to Keith by observing that the French
government's scrapping of the 35-hour week may turn out
Tom,
Can you say more about why this is so?
over the longer term shorter
work time enables productivity gains that result in both shorter hours and
higher earnings.
I would think that the additional overhead of managing more people, of
coordinating among tasks now being performed by a
William B Ward wrote:
Dennis,
Absolutely!
Bill Ward
The current Administrations appear to be imprisoning citizens
without access to Constitutionally proscribed access to legal
council.
I would consider this much more of an impeachable offense than
lieing
about an affair.
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I was in my teens and a high-school dropout, I spent a year working
in a large west-coast sawmill that supplied wood to a pulp and paper
mill. The whole purpose of a sawmill is to take large logs and reduce
and reshape them to
Mike Spencer wrote:
[Time to bring the corporations off their psycho paths !]
[snip]
Evil lurks at the top?
MD urges screening CEOs for psychopaths
In popular vernacular, psychopath is associated with violent, kinky
sex, serial and mass murder, cannibalism and other extremes of
Pete Vincent pondered:
I was thinking about these workers who couldn't
schedule their bodily functions to cope with two hour intervals, and I
wonder if this is an indication of rampant diabetes, resulting from
excessive sugar in the diet. Would have been more appropriate if
it was a pop
pete wrote:
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I was in my teens and a high-school dropout, I spent a year working
in a large west-coast sawmill that supplied wood to a pulp and paper
mill. The whole purpose of a sawmill is to take large logs and reduce
and
Christoph Reuss wrote:
Pete Vincent pondered:
I was thinking about these workers who couldn't
schedule their bodily functions to cope with two hour intervals, and I
wonder if this is an indication of rampant diabetes, resulting from
excessive sugar in the diet. Would have been more
I would rather expect that any ee who diverted any of the
product for personal consumption would be summarily dismissed --
Diverted? Legally purchased, of course. Don't they get discounts??
Chris
Christoph Reuss wrote:
I would rather expect that any ee who diverted any of the
product for personal consumption would be summarily dismissed --
Diverted? Legally purchased, of course. Don't they get discounts??
Maybe.
But the Execs don't need 'em (the discounts, that is). They
Lawrence de Bivort wrote,
Tom,
Can you say more about why this is so?
over the longer term shorter
work time enables productivity gains that result in both shorter hours
and
higher earnings.
I would think that the additional overhead of managing more people, of
coordinating among
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