Re: Re: PeopleSoft

The way it's explained to me is that the employees' existing job chores are not considered when administrators dump the learning of new software systems on them. They're already working 40 hours plus, then are told to absorb new skills, and usually a lot of inputting, etc. needed in order to run t

Berkeley for sale

Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2001 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ON THE CAMPUS For sale: US academic integrity Private enterprise is much taken with education, especially the universities. In the United States the race to get hold of academic disciplines that bring in the money has already increased con

Re:Black Americans and Anticolonialism

Also see the new bok by Mary Dudziak from Princeton Univ. Press. "Cold War and Civil Rights" Blurbs from Gerald Horne and Manning Marable among others. An older book, " American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970, " by Martin Staniland, Yale Univ. Press, 1991. For those w/o time

BLS Daily Report

> BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2001: > > The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent in February, but the > manufacturing sector continued to illustrate the real weakness of the > economy, losing another 94,000 jobs and reducing the number of hours > worked by 0.7 percent, the Burea

Japan's economic crisis

The following is excerpted from Economic Reporting Review, the left-Keynesian (I think) economics commentator, Dean Baker. [This is available by sending a "subscribe ERR" email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://www.tompaine.com/news/2000/10/02/index.html ] In the wilderness of mirrors which i

Re: Re: Re: PeopleSoft

Sounds really familiar. I heard of some quite interesting dynamics when a otherwise liberal white middle management supervisor was scapegoated as being "racially insensitive" for trying to train staff with inadequate resources ( training staff at one moment, then being confronted with a six month

Widow of St. Pierre

Late one night in 1849 a drunken sailor murders his former captain on the forlorn, windswept island of St. Pierre in maritime Canada. As French subjects, the local magistrates must comply with the law of the republic and have him guillotined. Since the island lacks such a device, a requisition ord

BLS Daily Report

> BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2001: > > Black female workers saw their unemployment rate fall to 5.8 percent in > February, from January's 7.3 percent. Some economists had been closely > watching that group's typically volatile rate, which tends to rise early > in a recession (The Wall

water services privatization

Public Services International http://www.world-psi.org Privatization United States 9 Feb 01 AMERICAN WATER WORKS MOVES FORWARD WITH LARGEST PRIVATIZATION OF A MUNICIPAL SYSTEM American Water Works Company, Inc., announced today that its Pennsylvania subsidiary has received approval from the PA

Globalising Call Centres

The Guardian March 9, 2001 Delhi calling It may look like a UK number, but do you really know where the person on the other end of the line is? Luke Harding visits a call centre in India where the staff take crash courses in Britishness It is 6.30pm and in a smart open plan office in south Delh

Re: Globalising Call Centres

Quite a bit of what I call the "economic development scam" in Chico--petty bureaucrats latching on to hundreds of thousands of dollars from local governments by promising "new jobs" via corporate recruitment--is geared towards selling our low wage paradise to call centers. The most recent "succe

Re: Indonesian minister warns of nation'sdemise-paper

>Dear Friends, > >First of all, let me say hello to all of you. I recently joined >PEN-L as I discovered it only a >short while ago, basicly after Michael P. forwarded to me a few >e-mails from this list. This >appears to be a high volume list and I must confess I find it >difficult to follow

Re: Re: Indonesian minister warns of nation's demise-paper

Taiwan's unemployment rate has like doubled in the last year. Plant closings abound, the stock market is a mess... Steve Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822 On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Brad DeLong wrote: > >Dear

The class consciousness of the airline bosses

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), March 13, 2001, Tuesday, Metro Edition Mechanics picket White House, say Bush scuttled negotiations Greg Gordon; Staff Writer Washington, D.C. --Toting placards declaring that they had been "Bushwhacked," angry Northwest Airlines mechanics picketed the White Ho

National Mediation Board

Shortly after my last post, I discovered later on in Petzinger's chapter that deregulation only applies to the bosses. When all the rules were removed affecting traffic across state borders, pricing, etc., one important rule was left in place, namely the right to dictate whether airline workers co

Re: National Mediation Board

The NMB is part of the Railway Labor Act, passed in 1926, and amended in 1934 (I believe) to include airline workers (but not the air traffic controllers who are public employees). The Act makes in very difficult for workers to strike because it sets in motion mandatory no-strike periods when neg

Re: Re: Re: Indonesian minister warns of nation'sdemise-paper

A thread on Indonesia would be good, but in the meantime, as for South Korea, as reflected in these photos from the recent Daewoo strike, my impression is the economy there is not, "doing quite nicely." http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=daewoo&c=news_photos&n=10 Michael Pugliese -Ori

Re: Re: Indonesian minister warns of nation's

Brad DeLong opined: > ??? I thought both the South Korean and the Taiwanese economies were doing quite nicely these days...< what does "doing quite nicely" mean? low unemployment and rising real wages? or a stable currency and external debt being repaid? I thought one of the basic things in eco

Re: Globalising Call Centres

Thanks for posting this. Since 1998 I have been researching the Indian software industry. This piece nicely captures a whole lot of stuff that is going on in the industry, in the world economy, organizations, the North and South, and the like. I will insert some of my comments in the appropriat

Worker ownership at [dis]United unravels

March 14, 2001 Management: Employee-Ownership Experiment Unravels at United By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN It was trumpeted on the cover of Business Week as a beacon for corporate America and hailed by none other than the conservat