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Temp Hirings a Major Factor in Lowering Unemployment Losses
23 hours ago ago from Crooks and Liars
This Times article explains a lot: So zombie temp workers are getting "work", as opposed to people getting actual jobs. Still, I suppose at some point they'll start hiring full-time employees, assuming we don't have a double-dip recession: The hiring of temporary workers has surged, suggesting that the nation’s employers might soon take the next step, bringing on permanent workers, if they can just convince themselves that the upturn in the ...
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10 hours ago ago from Occupy California
Students are The University’s reason for being. Without students – workers training in specialized forms of labor to fulfill specialized roles – the society in which we live could not continue. We are its future, and, already their diligent workers, its present. So we work, together with the faculty and staff, to reproduce the status quo. And without any particular reason but momentum, we keep on keeping on, day after day. Sure, some of us ...
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14 hours ago ago from Lynnhattan
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20 hours ago ago from Du Vert au Rouge
Brendan O'Neill de la revue Spiked nous offre un très bon «manifeste» post-Copenhague: Hands off the human footprint! Voici les 10 points énoncés: #1- Hands off human footprint: We have not poisoned the planet; we have humanised it. And far from being shrunk, our ‘footprint’ – our 5,000-year project of taming and transforming this wild ball of gas and water – must be expanded further. #2- Ditch the carbon ...
Related contentLee Sustar on the Current State of US Labor
20 hours ago ago from Gathering Forces
The prospects and challenges currently facing not only organized labor but the working class in general are synthesized well in the below article from International Socialist Review no. 66, US Labor in the crisis, Resistance or retreat? authored by Lee Sustar. Sustar, who relies to a certain extent on Kim Moody's very solid 2007 book, US Labor in Trouble and Transition , paints a broad picture of contemporary labor as one that has faced ...
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