BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1997
Slightly more than half of the largest US. employers now offer work at
home or job sharing arrangements to their employees, according to a
survey of 519 companies by the management consulting firm of Watson
Wyatt Worldwide The survey found that 51
At 03:09 PM 6/2/97 -0700, Louis Proyect wrote:
The reason that you put "documentary" in quotes should be spelled out.
There is no such town as Dadetown and the film-makers simply created a
"faux" documentary which turned many people off. I suspect that the
film-makers were more interested in
From the NY TIMES, Monday June 2,
By voting [the Socialist] party back into
office just four years after it suffered a
crushing defeat, the French have
expressed their deep reservations about
the American-led economic reforms
June 3, 1997
By THOMAS GEOGHEGAN
CHICAGO -- It may be a good year in the job market for new college
graduates, but in the 1990's a surprising number of them have found that a
B.A. is not all that it's cracked up to be.
Median income for a college graduate, of course, is still much higher than
For a real documentary on collective bargaining, see the
CBC/NFB film "Final Offer" which is a film of the Canadian
UAW-General Motors negotiations in 1984 (?) which led not
only to a different pattern of agreements in Canada but
also to the breakoff of the Cdn Automobile Workers from
the UAW.
World Wide Web giants Netscape and Yahoo have announced their plans to
merge to become the world's largest internet provider. The new firm will
be located in Israel and will be known as:
Net'n'yahoo.
This coincidentally coincides with the merger of El
To start, I think the below is only for the more dedicated students of the
subject; most pen-lers will want to skip it. There's no real content added
in either this missive or the one it was replying to. It's also too long.
Repeating what's at stake: Max is still utterly unconvinced, at any
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Subject: [PEN-L:10515] yet more planning democracy
Sorry to put you out of sorts, Jim. I know that
snipping your posts annoys you so I tried to
inhibit myself. I'm doing the best I can. For
me at least, it gets hard once you're past
four
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1997
The National Association of Purchasing Management reports that growth
in the manufacturing sector advanced at a faster pace in May than in
April, spurred by a surge in new orders (Daily Labor Report, page
A-3)
Construction spending fell 1 percent
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Subject: [PEN-L:10505] French elections
The significance of the French elections is magnified by the fact that it
follows on the heels of last year's general strike and mobilization against
Juppe's neo-liberal policies. Seventy-five
http://www.carleton.ca/~shick/kelsey.htm
DEMYSTIFYING APEC
Dr. Jane Kelsey
APEC (the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) is hard to get a grip
on. Unlike the European Union (EIJ) it is avowedly not a trade bloc.
Operating under the slogan 'open regionalism', APEC exists to service the
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phone (619) 542-0826; fax (619) 295-5879
June 2, 1997
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
The answer is that I would not even think of coming up with such a
program. I would devote my energies to reinvigorating the grass roots.
In the U.S., much the most progressive legislation in our history came
during the Nixon years. Did Nixon
Wellfurchrissakes, Michael, they're social democrats. Their options are
limited by what they can allow themselves to call for as reform. I think
the CP has as good a program as one could hope for from a party that's
moved by the powers dat be, and they seem to be trying to impose it on
DADETOWN
** (No Rating)
Directed by Russ Hexter. Produced by Jim Carden. Cinematography by W.J.
Gorman. Running time: 93 minutes. No MPAA rating (nothing objectionable).
By Roger Ebert
*Warning: Secrets are revealed in this review; read at your own risk.*
A few weeks before I saw Russ
Tavis Barr wrote:
If Michael Perelman were suddenly plopped at the
head of the French PS and forced at gunpoint to come up with an effective
reformist program, what would he call for?
Poke, poke,
Tavis
The answer is that I would not even think of coming up with such a
program. I would
Thanks to Michael for posting some really fascinating material
on the current U.S. role in Russia. Those working on Russia might
be interested to know that some of the same techniques were tried
out, though on a smaller scale, in Central America during the 1980's.
In Guatemala, Honduras, El
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Subject: Recent postings to web sites of WTO/MAI info
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 01:24:36 -0400
Subject: Recent postings to web sites of WTO/MAI info
A home page for Common Front on the World Trade Organization
information has recently
APEC Ministerial Conference in Toronto June 9-11
(Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)
Australia Brunei Darussalam
CanadaPeople's Republic of China
Chile Hong Kong
Indonesia Japan
Republic of Korea Malaysia
Daniel Singer is writing the most interesting things about the French
elections. Just the other week, before the elections, he made the
observation that the number of people in the streets in the 1996 protests
involving truckers, et al, were actually larger than in 1968. The
elections were a
The WSJ says:
"Britain's Mr. Blair ... [has] outlined a "welfare-to-work" program that
is more right wing than what many European conservatives would dare
suggest."
Kind of like Clinton's ending welfare "as we know it."
Cheers,
Sid Shniad
Greetings,
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
The French elections were a tragedy. From what I understand, the left
comes in without a program. Please correct me if I am wrong. They will
offer a kindler, gentler neo-liberalism, something like Giscard. The
people will become
The French elections were a tragedy. From what I understand, the left
comes in without a program. Please correct me if I am wrong. They will
offer a kindler, gentler neo-liberalism, something like Giscard. The
people will become disgusted, giving more credibility to the right.
It is sad that
Max,
Your irrepressible optimism vis-a-vis "social Europe" and unification
reminds me of the kid who's whistling away as he's shoveling tons of
horse shit out of the stall.
When aske why he's so happy, he answers: "With all this horse shit,
there's got to be a horse in here somewhere!"
How the
Message from Bruce Allen CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) Local 199
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:38:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Resolution on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Fellow Workers,
The following is the text of a resolution that I am trying to
I don't have too many short articles to recommend, but I'll share the
few references I have.
On Wed, June 4, 1997 at 11:23:33 (-0700) Eric Verhoogen writes:
The Center for Popular Economics and The UMass Labor Center in Amherst, MA,
have been hired by the AFL-CIO to create an economics education
Dear PEN-Lers,
The Center for Popular Economics and The UMass Labor Center in Amherst, MA,
have been hired by the AFL-CIO to create an economics education curriculum
for study groups of rank-and-file workers, called "Common-Sense Economics,"
and we need help finding engaging, popularly written
We all eagerly await the pen-l postings of Wojtek's cat. The cat
(what is its name?) might first want to peruse the archives of a
discussion on postmodernism that took place on this list three
years ago. A main archive can be found at:
http://csf.Colorado.EDU/lists/pen-l/pomo-discussion.94
At 07:33 PM 6/2/97 -0700, Colin wrote:
A. Main point: Ehrenreich MacIntosh wrote that "postmodernists"
resist arguments about the role of biology in social phenomena, and
that these postmodernists are resistant for reasons "eerily similar"
to those motivating fundamentalist Christians, who
Michael Perelman wrote,
during the Nixon years. Did Nixon have an effective reformist program?
Of course not. People were in the streets.
Exactly my point in portraying the French elections as a ray of hope. People
_were_ in the streets not long before the elections. I find it fascinating
FYI
Shawgi Tell
Graduate School of Education
University at Buffalo
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