[PEN-L:1564] Unions win against RTZ/CRA

1995-11-24 Thread Peter Colley
Unions win against RTZ/CRA Since no other Australian seems to have gotten around to it, I should inform labour activists and other progressives that there has recently been a major victory in Australia against a transnational company with an avowed agenda of de-unionising its workplaces. The

[PEN-L:1565] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

1995-11-24 Thread bill mitchell
peter colley has provided a long review of a recent (major) IR battle in OZ. as a fellow OZ i would be more circumspect than peter. although it is a horrible meat-eating type of statement "I wouldn't be counting my chickens before they are hatched." Unions win against RTZ/CRA Since no other

[PEN-L:1567] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

1995-11-24 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Peter Colley wrote: Unions win against RTZ/CRA Since no other Australian seems to have gotten around to it, I should inform labour activists and other progressives that there has recently been a major victory in Australia against a transnational company with an avowed

[PEN-L:1566] Re: Women in...

1995-11-24 Thread MScoleman
Doug correctly notes the increase of women receiving professional degrees as MDs, lawyers, etc. I would like to point out that this does not translate into jobs. While there are certainly many more women receiving advanced degrees, they are not being hired. For example, 9/10/91 New

[PEN-L:1568] PROFS Case: Book on White House e-mail (fwd)

1995-11-24 Thread D Shniad
Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/rre.html X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 12:50:49 -0500 (EST) From: Eddie Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PROFS Case: Book on White House e-mail NEW BOOK PROVIDES

[PEN-L:1569] Re: Price, Commercialization, Internalization of the Net

1995-11-24 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) I do not want any of the above to be interpreted as an attack against the NYMS. They do good work and are an important resource for Marxists in the NYC area. I do, however, want Bill to reconsider the nature of his intervention on PEN-L. I

[PEN-L:1570] Re: Women in...

1995-11-24 Thread Jim Jaszewski
On Mon, 20 Nov 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [great stuff deleted] waitresses in small restaurants are rarely carried on the books; thousands of women engage in non-recorded but paid care jobs for children, maids, eldercare, cleaning jobs in homes and offices, etc.; women make up a huge

[PEN-L:1571] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

1995-11-24 Thread Peter Colley
On 24 November 1995 Ellen J. Dannin wrote: I seem to recall that CRA owned / owns Tiwai, an aluminium plant in New Zealand. The company engaged in a similar -- but successful -- strategy of deunionising there immediately after the ECA was enacted in 1991. According to reports, it learned

[PEN-L:1572] Re: Unions win against RTZ/CRA

1995-11-24 Thread Peter Colley
Bill Mitchell has been somewhat critical of my account of Australian unions' campaign against RTZ/CRA, and highly critical of the role of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions over the last 10 years. At the obvious risk of starting a debate that I do not have the