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Commonwealth Magazine's Weak Take on Bad Jobs |
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by Jason Pramas, MGA |
02 Aug 2005
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A long article on the perils of contingent jobs in the latest issue of Commonwealth magazine (see link below)— the monthly of MassInc, a local centrist think-tank —might have been a credible effort in the mid-1990's when much about the contingent economy was new to most observers. But after years of research by analysts, including Mass Global Action's predecessor organization, the Campaign on Contingent Work (www.ccwglobal.org), it's pretty weak to spend thousands of words rehashing a problem that's been flogged to death already, and then take only the most tepid stab at proposing any solutions.
In this case, the hero of the narrative is one Sara Horowitz of Working Today (www.workingtoday.org) in New York City.
What's particularly galling about author Michael Jonas' choice of Horowitz is that her main innovation as an erstwhile "labor leader" has been to peddle a health plan for well-paid Big Apple contract workers, play footsie with a variety of corporations to flog "portable benefits" and tax breaks for contingent workers instead of national health insurance, and push the idea of "guilds" over unions as the forward-into-the-past solution for contingent workers' workplace woes. |
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Announcement :: Globalization |
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Aug5th-12th Week of Action Against Corporate Involvement in I-69! |
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by Roadless summer |
02 Aug 2005
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For more than fifteen years resistance to the NAFTA superhighway, I-69, has stewed not just from within the foothills of Indiana, where it is to be built next, but across the nation as a whole. Everything from grassroots organizing to more militant actions has been employed, putting off it’s construction time and time again. But, as the signing of CAFTA and other free trade agreements becomes imminent, the focus of the planners of our economy has once again been placed upon the finalization of this project. As an integral element of globalization's infrastructure within the hemisphere, I-69 is bigger than just Indiana. If allowed to be completed, I-69 would connect with the Plan Puebla Panama -- a series of projects (highways, air and sea ports, etc) which would provide trade infrastructure throughout Mexico and Central America. Together, they would create a direct route stretching from Canada to the very tip of Meso-America, allowing for the more rapid transport of capital and goods while providing nothing but devastation to the communities left in their wake. In Indiana alone, hundreds of families will be relocated and more than 1100 acres of forest destroyed; that is to say nothing of the thousands of jobs that will doubtlessly be lost across the border. For Central and South America, this highway will lead only to further exploitation as companies continue to move their factories further south with the lessening of wages and labor standards. |
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Announcement :: Human Rights : Labor : Politics |
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National Pro-Democracy March in Atlanta Saturday August 6, 2005 |
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by Keep The Vote Alive! |
01 Aug 2005
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NATIONAL PRO-DEMOCRACY MARCH IN ATLANTA SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2005
40th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act March for Voting Rights, Jobs, Justice, & Peace
A rally to fight for the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. A rally to fight for jobs and health care. A rally to fight for equal, high quality education for all Americans. A rally to stop the war in Iraq. |
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