Brad McCormick: > Ed Weick wrote: > > It's not often that someone responds to his own posting, but after > > having sent it off the following paragraph struck me as being a little > > dumb because changing jobs in today's labour market is not that easy and > > the job you change to may be no better than the one you left. > > Isn't it more accurate to say that the job you change to > *may very well be worse than the one you left* -- and, again > fine tuning: not the job you left, but the job that ceased to > exist and which therefore contributes nothing to *anybody* any more?
This may well be the case. > > > > > "Many people put in more that 37.5 hours and much of the work they > > do is tedious and demeaning. However, unlike the serf or slave, > > they can change jobs and, if they are unionized, can negotiate the > > conditions under which they work. That was less possible in earlier > > times." > > [snip] > > Aren't fewer and fewer workers unionized these days, at least in the USA? > This may be the case. In Canada, I believe that unions remain strong in the public services, transportation, some manufacturing (eg. the auto industry), and the natural resource industries. However, with a shift in the economy to the service and knowledge-based industries, their overall clout seems to have diminished. Ed Ed Weick 577 Melbourne Ave. Ottawa, ON, K2A 1W7 Canada Phone (613) 728 4630 Fax (613) 728 9382 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
