The following is from the Teamster Website
Teamsters News Release
June 26, 1997
New Research Shows Sky-High Turnover as Full-Time
Opportunities Vanish;
Throwaway Jobs Linked to Productivity Decline
By sheer coincidence, the Economic Policy Institute
Bro. Walker,
We're going to have a discussion at EPI on work time.
I can tell you our labor econ mavens are open-minded
but skeptical. We are going to read an article by
Gerhard Bosch and Steffen Lehndorff presented at a
conference, "Globalisation of Economic Activity and
the Labour Market" in
Max Sawicky wrote,
We're going to have a discussion at EPI on work time.
. . .If you have anything
else we should read, short of massive treatises, let me know.
1. First, a note that the address of the TimeWork Web has changed to:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
2. I'll mention (for the sake
In this message, I am forwarding sections of the report that address the
issue of work time. The full report is available from the Collective
Reflections web site: http://www.reflection.gc.ca
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from the report's copyright notice: "The material herein may be used
Continued from before (due to interruption; these damn students think
I'm actually here to help them and they just don't get it: that I'm
here to publish, sit on bullshit committees, go to conferences,
discuss "ultimate truths" and my latest "research" with colleagues
over beer at the faculty
Fitzgerald follows in a right-wing tradition of bowdlerizing the work of
Ronald G. Ehrenberg in order to prove the economic unsoundness of reducing
work time. What Ehrenberg demonstrated in the early 1970s, however, was more
limited and precise. He demonstrated the potential adverse
Question: Who was the first Jew to receive the Heisman? Answer: Fred
Goldman.
I'm afraid this would offend some Jews who don't share
my black sense of humor. It doesn't bother me, though
I will be careful about to whom I repeat it.
It seems that Fred Goldman has received a bona fide offer
All through the first Simpson trial saga I chose to protect my sanity
by resolutely refusing to give a shit; I managed this cordon sanitaire
to the point where, when the verdict unavoidably reached me, I honestly
had no idea how to react.
However, the mere advent of the civil suit
Do you mean the wonderful Jessica Mitford. The American Way of Death?
ZAHNISER STEVEN SCOTT wrote:
There was once a writer and consumer advocate, now deceased, who wrote
extensively on the subject of funeral home directors pushing unneeded and
extravagant burial packages on the families of
This message is reposted from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The media is filled with
official statements (and many misstatements) about the UPS strike. Here is
a view from the rank and file. I will continue to repost information about
the strike as I receive it. Kindly share these messages with
It's really clear how biased the media is in favor of UPS: I've never heard
of a strike that's been trumpeted as "a Teamsters' strike" unless it is
literal truckdrivers on strike (and many UPS workers are not). The word
"Teamsters" gets repeated a lot, but not "truck drivers." You wouldn't hear
Yes, she's the one!!
Steven Zahniser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Michael Perelman wrote:
Do you mean the wonderful Jessica Mitford. The American Way of Death?
There was once a writer and consumer advocate, now deceased, who wrote
extensively on the subject of funeral home directors pushing unneeded and
extravagant burial packages on the families of departed loved ones. I
wish I could remember her name, because her writing prominently displayed
her
Question: Who was the first Jew to receive the Heisman? Answer: Fred
Goldman.
I'm afraid this would offend some Jews who don't share
my black sense of humor. It doesn't bother me, though
I will be careful about to whom I repeat it.
Response: I don't think this circulating joke
From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11597] Re: Work Time
Response (Jim C): In a message to Congress on the Fair Labor
Standards Act, FDR wrote:
"Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary
standard of decency should be
Max Sawicky blanked,
way. So do The Sheltering Sky and Barfly (by
and about Paul Bowles and another beat whose
name I'm blanking on).
That would be Charles Bukowski (y?).
Regards,
Tom Walker
^^^
knoW Ware Communications
Vancouver,
Question: Who was the first Jew to receive the Heisman? Answer: Fred
Goldman.
It seems that Fred Goldman has received a bona fide offer to torch
Simpson's Heisman on Pay-per-view for $1,000,000 guaranteed. I love
it! It seems that there is absolutely nothing that can't be
commodified under
On Sun, August 3, 1997 at 23:25:07 (-0700) Michael Eisenscher writes:
Teamsters UPS Update August 2, 1997
...
UPS, or rather, the owners and management of UPS, has put up an
anti-union bit of propaganda on their web site, called the "Labor
Update". You can
A few notes on one of my college literary heroes,
William S. Burroughs, who died yesterday,
partly to correct the predictably sappy NPR
piece this a.m.
The only book of his really worth reading is
Naked Lunch. The ones that came after are
somewhat repetitive, not as funny, and even
more
I would like to thank Ted Goertzel for pointing out a mistake in the
following statement: I meant to say that "...very little of value remains
in PUBLIC hands..."
Talking with friends and reading the newspapers, I got the impression that
there is very little that remains to be privatized, that
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