[PEN-L:11719] Re: UPS

UPS is a closely held corporation, which means that its stock is not traded on the exchanges. The largest block of stock is held by a foundation set up by founder and another foundation established by the company and under management's control, next largest by members of management, and in the

[PEN-L:11720] Re: Sex work and choice

KARL: Hi Wojtek! WOJTEK: In fact, if we take the petty bourgeois morality out of the picture, prostitution is work just as any other work, except that a prostitute owns the means of production, and under most circumstances she is paid for the "product" rather than for the time. These

[PEN-L:11722] Ellen Dannin in the New Zealand news

People may be interested that Ellen Dannin received good coverage in the "New Zealand Herald", Auckland, New Zealand's largest circulation newspaper a week ago (4 August). Headlined "Employment legislation damned", subtitled "US labour expert Professor Ellen Dannin says the Employment

[PEN-L:11721] Time To Tell The Americans To Take A Hike! (fwd)

FYI Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:16:38 -0400 From: MER Editorial [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Time To Tell The Americans To Take A Hike! M I D - E A

[PEN-L:11725] Re: questions about part time jobs

In a message dated 97-08-12 12:55:23 EDT, you write: Michael P asked: 1. The Wall Street Journal says that part time jobs are not increasing? Any thoughts. One of the problems with defining part time jobs is that many self-defined part time jobs actually work people close to full time.

[PEN-L:11727] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1997 The index of forward-looking economic indicators was unchanged in June, after rising 0.3 percent in May, the Conference Board reports. The New York-based board said five of the 10 leading economic indicators rose in June. The most significant

[PEN-L:11731] Black Male Employment

I have been working on a paper which looks at black employment prospects. From the BLS I found what seems to be an astounding piece of data. As you might expect, employment/pop ratios for men have been highly cyclical. In the past I had computed this using peak-to-through data: Year

[PEN-L:11738] NYT on Part-Timers

When I tried to post this previously, I screwed up. I apologize for the garble. August 12, 1997 Part-Time Workers Looking for a Leg Up By STEVEN GREENHOUSE NEW YORK -- Before the strike against the United Parcel Service began, Christopher Holdip, a

[PEN-L:11735] AFL-CIO Backstops IBT Strike Fund

Note: Here is the address of the Teamster UPS Website - http://www.teamster.org/ups.htm It is updated daily. === U.S. Unions Unite Behind UPS Strikers 06:45 a.m. Aug 13, 1997 Eastern By David Lawsky WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The AFL-CIO is offering millions of

[PEN-L:11737] Re: Black Male Employment

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --2213C2BA2B7728050EF730C4 --EC28DF77FBE7BB4B159ACD58 Robert Cherry writes: But what I find most striking is that between 1995 and 1996, the black employment to population ratio DECLINED! I would be interested in any

[PEN-L:11734] Co. Claims Impasse; Americans Support Workers

UPS: Talks with Teamsters at Impasse 01:39 p.m Aug 13, 1997 Eastern By David Lawsky WASHINGTON (Reuter) - United Parcel Service Chairman James Kelly Wednesday declared efforts to end the 10-day-old strike by Teamsters at an impasse, even as Labor Secretary Alexis Herman tried to get

[PEN-L:11730] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1997 In many ways, UPS is a metaphor for the 1990s economy, says a Washington Post Sunday commentary (page C1) What the UPS workers mostly want is the simple right to work full time. Only 40 percent of them, mostly drivers, now do so The duration of

[PEN-L:11729] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1997 __The widespread use of part-time workers at United Parcel Service is drawing public attention to one of the thorniest workplace issues. Part-time employment in private industry has grown rapidly in the last two decades, now amounting to about 22 million

[PEN-L:11728] FW: BLS Daily Report

BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: Largely as a result of reductions in job-related homicides and electrocutions, the number of fatal work injuries fell in 1996 to 6,112, the lowest level in the five-year history of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. The

[PEN-L:11726] UPS unskilled?

Maggie writes: As for UPS, it may seem to be an unskilled job, but I'll be willing to bet that there is alot more to the job than meets the eye. the full-time UPS workers drive trucks (getting packages to the right location on time), load and unload trucks, and deal with customers on a daily

[PEN-L:11724] Robert Fitch on UPS strike

Solidarity, for a Change Something New in the '90s: UPS Versus Corporate America by Robert Fitch America is no longer a striking country. In the '90s, strikes have fallen to one-tenth the level of the '70s. Since then, median wages for nonsupervisory workers have been falling steadily, about

[PEN-L:11723] Re: UPS

Might just add that the National Center for Employee Ownership web page lists UPS as the second largest "worker-owned" firm in the country. I'll refrain from further comment on that irony or what it may say about existing forms of worker ownership. The stock is held not in an ESOP but in a 401k