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 Contracts Act is unintelligent and full of faults and predicts labour relations will deteriorate steadily", the generally sympathetic interview with her includes: But how about all those jobs created in the past six years, improved productivity and workplace harmony? "Slaves don't go on strike too often," responds Professor Dannin, who has just written a mercilessly critical book, called "Working Free", about the legislation. As for all those jobs, she does not think the labour laws had anything to do with them. Well, how about higher productivity? "Garbage statistics", says this former trial attorney for America's National Labor Relations Board, author of many articles on labour and employment law, and globe-trotting lecturer. Bill /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Bill Rosenberg, Acting Director, Centre for Computing and Biometrics, | | P. O. Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(64)(03)3252-811 Fax:(64)(03)3253-865 | \-------------------------------------------------------------------------/