Re: [Futurework] Wal-Mart Seeks a Just-in-time workforce

2007-01-05 Thread Sally Lerner
Talk about being jerked around!! This was predictable, of course, but still disgusting. How to fight this? any ideas?? Sally Wal-Mart Seeks New Flexibility In Worker Shifts 3 January 2007 javascript:void(0)The Wall Street Journal A1 The nation's biggest private employer is about to revamp

Re: [Futurework] Wal-Mart Seeks a Just-in-time workforce

2007-01-05 Thread Gail Stewart
Re: [Futurework] Wal-Mart Seeks a Just-in-time workforHi Sally, You asked for ideas. How about intermediation, i.e., intermediate entities? I'm referring to independent (possibly employee-formed) employment enterprises associated with each store (perhaps locality), providing enough moral

[Futurework] Open Universities

2007-01-05 Thread Karen Watters Cole
By the end of 2007, all courses taught at MIT will be available online, to anyone, from anywhere: No registration, Free. “The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse

Re: [Futurework] Wal-Mart Seeks a Just-in-time workforce

2007-01-05 Thread Gail Stewart
Hi Natalia, Thanks for this thoughtful reply. There is not much of it that I could argue with but it seems to me a counsel of despair. What then are you suggesting? You do mention an effective government agency but later say government action is not a likelihood. I don't like to think that the

[Futurework] Open Universities

2007-01-05 Thread pete
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Karen Watters Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted: By the end of 2007, all courses taught at MIT will be available online, to anyone, from anywhere: No registration, Free. “The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now

[Futurework] Bush's Mulligan

2007-01-05 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Bush and Cheney have rearranged the chairs on the Titanic and assume Americans will give them a ‘do-over’ on their war in Iraq. But the rubber-stamp Congress is gone. Walk the Talk: Democrats in the House, led by Defense Appropriations Chairman Rep. Jack Murtha, intend to deny funding for a troop