April 30, 2005
dickin the wage index
keep yer eye on the ball
the blue lites are out
to snip SSI's
indexation to wages
the rest is hog wash
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April 28, 2005
point counter point on ronin orgers
e on
UPCOMING IPON CONGRESS
" this is pb dung
cult of the lone wrangler shit
come off it herb
without a massive team
of on staff pros
how can a walmart get orged "
good question
but....
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the point is missed
the ronin orgers
are not part
of a co ordinated
top down
war of position
like the usual
pie card
recognition drive
blaze setters
part of repeated
prime target
attack attack attack
deep back grounders
living on a passed hat
working hand in glove
with a flock of
on site regs
and in z
out z
jobakazees
not that ipos cant
link to each other
in fact thats the idea of the IPONA
a clearing house
for clumping
ITS A VIRTUAL
WAGE LEGION
A DIGITAL SQUAWK-HALL
FOR
FORAGERS
LOOKIN FOR JOB SCENE
KLASS ACTION INSIGHTS
AND ONCE THERES A COMMONALITY STRUCK
A WAY
TO REMAIN
IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATIONS
WITH EACH OTHER
THRU THEIR
HIVE CENTRAL
SAY AS TIME PASSES
IT TURNS OUT
300 IPOS
ARE WORKING
WITH TROUBLE MAKERS
AT 300 DIFFERENT
WALMART JOB SITES
THE LINK UPS WILL HAPPEN
NOW FOR
TARGET WALMART
CO -OP ACTIONS
LIKE
A NATION CROSSING
FLASH OCC WAVE
REALLY
THE ACTION IN ITSELF
TAKES VERY LITTLE
TACTICAL PLANNING
ITS A MATTER
OF HAVING ENOUGH SITES
PRIMED FOR TAKE OFF
AND THE ROAD TO THAT AIN'T ROYAL
ITS A SERIES OF
"I'M HERE FOR YOU GUYS
AND YOU GUYS ONLY"
SETTIN UP THE DOMINOS
ONE BY ONE BY ONE
AND LET ME TELL U
NO GIANT OUTSIDE CARAVAN
OF SUPER STAR UNION HACKS
NO SPOTLIGHT
BOOGEY WOOGEY
BY A CHORUS LINE
OF
STRUGGLE HAMS
WILL GET DEEP ENOUGH INTO
THESE 8 BUCKS AN HOUR
HEARTS AND MINDS
CHRIST IMAGINE ANDY
OR HAND JOB HANSEN OR ...
NOPE
AND BESIDES
IF THE BIG WILSON U U S
EVER
ACTUALLY GOT
EVEN ONE FIRE STARTED
SOMEWHERE
AT A REAL LIVE WAL MART STORE...
FUCK
THEY'D BIG HOSE
PISS IT OUT
FASTER THEN
THE DEVIL ITS LOBSTERS
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IPOs to meet
the independent professional organizers
of north america
IPONA
founding congress
toledo ohio
june 15 2005
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i guess
u know
my take on this ...
org ronin are where its at
they live off their wins
they have no pie faced
"this here union"
to peddle
they are there
for the job siters
exclusively
there
to be
exactly
what any unorged
job site needs
and
if they fuck up
they don't go back
to
the hard skull union's hq
they starve
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then again
if they
plan well
and win .....
their cut is negotiable ...
thru out the process
they
allow the job siters
to control
their own destiny
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an IPO
can take a bunch
of other wise cannon fodder
and guide em step by step
thru
the inevitable
two front war
against
both
the company bosses
and their
up front
bashin around
and the biz wiz
unions'
two faces
all rah rah
and then
if things look like there headed south
ready to cut and run
stab the jobster geeps
right
in their sweaty backs
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and after the love -in fades
IPOs
can keep jobsters
choices open
they're needed
believe me
beatin
a two headed dragon
ain't for ameteurs
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April 26, 2005
battlin Demoro v governor bull turd
struggle blaster
labor chiefs
gettin good press?
like this lady
thats been
beef jerkin
the gubinator ?
something fresh
is blowin in the wind ....
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la times this april:
"though spokesman, Rob Stutzman,
tried to downplay the role of
DeMoro's nurse's group
in the governor's
recent steep fall in the polls
most observers see a real connection
since DeMoro
started after the gubinator
for his december crack
that he'd
" kick their butts"
'she's twisted it back on him"
says nurses union
vp truman bobrick
" course he didn't know
she's a wild cat in a fight "
DeMoro's foes
in the hospital industry
denounce her
as a "radical"
who engages
In intimidation tactics
twists the facts
and sullies the nursing
profession
Jan Emerson
spokeswoman
for the California HospitalAssn.
said the nurses union
has been "impossible to
deal with" under DeMoro
Emerson said a demonstration
at the hospital association's
Sacramento offices in
2001 turned ugly
with protesters bursting through
doors and threatening to
"urinate
on the carpet"
if they
were not allowed
to use the bathroom
THE National Labor Relations Board
last year
overturned an organizing election
the association had won
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles
The board found
that the 2002 election
had been tainted
because antiunion nurses
had received anonymous
telephone threats
against "their families and pets"
according to
bobrick
The association has won
"more than 65 elections"
on DeMoro's watch
while losing
only
" about a half-dozen
all close ones '
"she's winning nine out of ten "
he says
in her 12 years at the helm
Demoro has tripled
the associations membership
today Cal Nurses
represents 60,000 nurses
a third
of the 180,000
hospital nurses
in California
"we'll get the rest "
says Demoro
typical of her bruising tactics
was a recent
union demo in san francisco
at a "fund raiser for the gubinator"
" while we clogged the streets
in every direction with
Demonstrators " DeMoro recounts
"our picket line
hurled insults
at all his well-dressed
contributors
as they pulled up in their limos
you know
stuff like
" Corporate scum!"
" money sows "
her response now
looking back
"all those out raged
purple faces
wow ..what a kick ..... "
DeMoro says the union's triumphs
flow from
the "childrens crusade-like'
resolve
of all 30 part-time directors
all working nurses
all part of a union culture
that emphasizes collaboration'
" membership is
more than 90% female".
DeMoro brands Schwarzenegger
"a silly marble headed
sexist clown "
during an informal
press conference
At her union's headquarters
DeMoro lifted
one of her row of
bobble-head
"girlie guv" dolls
from her desk
dropped it
on the rug
and stomped on it
" ooops
I broke his head off didn't I "
while retrieving
the pieces she asked
"Do you think that's symbolic?"
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goooooooooood press keeed
"oh the times they are a changin "
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April 24, 2005
pie card quote of the week
“This union cannot survive
if the only goal
is to negotiate better contracts
for our members,”
( Steelworker President Leo Gerard)
“We can’t survive
as an island of prosperity
in a sea of misery....
It’s the system we have to change!”
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here's what don't work:
"arm people with the desire to arm themselves "
no no no no no
just arm em
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April 23, 2005
my wal mart contest entry
my gal Emily
at Andy's " wave"
sent out a call
so .......
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Dear Herb
The cat is out of the bag
Millions of Americans
are about to find out
about the work
you've been doing
building the nation's
largest grassroots movement
to spread the truth about Wal-Mart
and ensure that work in America
is valued and rewarded again.
All this week
Al Franken will be talking
to Air America listeners
about Wal-Mart
But next week
we want to hear
what you think he should say
Should he be funny?
Serious?
Do a Dick Cheney impression?
How should Al Franken tell people
why we need to stand up
to corporations like Wal-Mart?
Al Franken will read the best ad
to millions of Americans
on Air America Radio.
Here's what I'm talking about:
1. Listen to the current ad
2. You write a new one
for a national audience
by next Wednesday
3. Next week, your ad
could be the one
that Al Franken reads
on Air America.
I think that you could write
something incredible
Herb
Al Franken needs your words.
Remember it can't be longer
than one minute
The deadline for entries
is April 27th
Thanks
Emily Thorson
PS HERB
HOPE TO HOOK UP WITH YASOON
U CAN COUNT ON IT
NEXT TIME I'M ANYWHERE NEAR LA
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its now 10 am
hmmmm
a contest :
write an anti walmart
stinger spot
and
for airing on
the great al frankenstein's
national radio show .......
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10:45 am
okay done.....
comes in at around 260 words
aaah prolly
too long ........
too long?
shit!!
fuck em too long
so's
Homers ILLI-ad
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" ATTENTION WALMART
FANS
WANNA REALLY
BAD DEAL ?
JOIN US
SELL YOUR TIME
TO THE WALTON FAMILY .....
NO NO DON'T GO AWAY
LISTEN TO MY STORY FIRST
LISTEN TO WHAT
OLD SAM WALTON
DID TO ONE OF OUR PALS HERE.....
YOU KNOW SMILEY FACE RIGHT?
COME ON
U MUST KNOW
HIM
BY NOW
HE'S EVERYWHERE
HE'S
THE FRICKIN COMPANY MASCOT...
U KNOW
THAT
SILLY
SUNNY LOOKIN THINGEE
WITH
THE COUNTRY SIZED
SMILE
RIGHT ?
YA YA
WELL
THAT little
YELLOW DISC
IS ALL THATS LEFT
OF OUR PAL
DONNY MORTON
MANAGEMENT
NOW CALLS HIM
" HOWDY THE PRICE FIXER "
BUT WE FLOOR APES
KNOW THE REAL STORY
THATS ALL THATS LEFT OF DONNY ....
YA SEE FOLKS
POOR OLD DONALD
USED TO
BE A REGULAR GUY
A REAL HUMAN
JUST LIKE U OR ME
A GUY MAKIN 13 K
A YEAR
RESTACKING SHELVES
LIKE THE REST OF UZ
WAL-MATES
BUT DONALD SOLD OUT
SOLD OUT
TO THE WALTONS
YUP HE SOLD
HIMSELF
FOR 500 THOUSAND BUCKS
TO OLD SAM HIMSELF
LITTLE DID HE KNOW .....
ONCE THEY OWNED HIM
ZAP
ZIP ZIP ZOINK
SO THERE HE IS
ON THE TV
PLAYIN'
ZORRO WITH PRICE TAGS
HE AIN'T HUMAN NO MORE......
NOPE
HE'S JUST A BUNCH OF
COMPUTER CODE NOW
WELL THERE IS THAT 500K
BUT HE'S 2D FANS
2D
WHATS HE BUYIN IN 2 D ?
WELL THATS IT
THATS MY STORY
JUST THOUGHT
U'D LIKE TO HEAR
WHAT ONE GUY
WAS WILLING TO DO
TO HIMSELF
JUST TO GET PROMOTED
OUT OF A JOB
MAKING HIM
7 BUCKS AN HOUR
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April 21, 2005
shit list
at long last
all in one place
here's the complete
shit list
Senator Daniel Akaka
Senator Lamar Alexander
Senator Wayne Allard
Senator George Allen
Senator Max Baucus
Senator Evan Bayh
Senator Robert Bennett
Senator Joseph Biden
Senator Jeff Bingaman
Senator Christopher Bond
Senator Barbara Boxer
Senator Sam Brownback
Senator Jim Bunning
Senator Conrad Burns
Senator Richard Burr
Senator Robert Byrd
Senator Maria Cantwell
Senator Thomas Carper
Senator Lincoln Chafee
Senator Saxby Chambliss
Senator Hillary Clinton
Senator Tom Coburn
Senator Thad Cochran
Senator Norm Coleman
Senator Susan Collins
Senator Kent Conrad
Senator John Cornyn
Senator Jon Corzine
Senator Larry Craig
Senator Mike Crapo
Senator Mark Dayton
Senator Jim Demint
Senator Mike DeWine
Senator Christopher Dodd
Senator Elizabeth Dole
Senator Pete Domenici
Senator Byron Dorgan
Senator Dick Durbin
Senator John Ensign
Senator Mike Enzi
Senator Russell Feingold
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Bill Frist
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Chuck Grassley
Senator Judd Gregg
Senator Chuck Hagel
Senator Tom Harkin
Senator Orrin Hatch
Senator Kay Hutchison
Senator James Inhofe
Senator Daniel Inouye
Senator Johnny Isakson
Senator Jim Jeffords
Senator Tim Johnson
Senator Edward Kennedy
Senator John Kerry
Senator Herb Kohl
Senator Jon Kyl
Senator Mary Landrieu
Senator Frank Lautenberg
Senator Patrick Leahy
Senator Carl Levin
Senator Joseph Lieberman
Senator Blanche Lincoln
Senator Trent Lott
Senator Richard Lugar
Senator Mel Martinez
Senator John McCain
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator Barbara Mikulski
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Ben Nelson
Senator Bill Nelson
Senator Barack Obama
Senator Mark Pryor
Senator Jack Reed
Senator Harry Reid
Senator Pat Roberts
Senator John Rockefeller
Senator Ken Salazar
Senator Rick Santorum
Senator Paul Sarbanes
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Jeff Sessions
Senator Richard Shelby
Senator Gordon Smith
Senator Olympia Snowe
Senator Arlen Specter
Senator Debbie Stabenow
Senator Ted Stevens
Senator John Sununu
Senator Jim Talent
Senator Craig Thomas
Senator John Thune
Senator David Vitter
Senator George Voinovich
Senator John Warner
Senator Ron Wyden
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one payer bingo
wanta build a car ?
even canada is better
why?
socialized medicine
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read this ....
"....GM, along with competitors
Ford and Chrysler
have been shifting production
out of Michigan
and across the Detroit River
into Ontario
as fast as they can.....
The reason is health care costs....
"....health costs currently account for $1500
of the cost of production
of every vehicle made in the U.S
In Canada
the figure is only a small fraction of that"
" in Canada theres a single payer system
its like our "Medicare
but for every one "
big ameri - corp's present
public line :
"GM thinks there has
to be
closer cooperation between
the government
and the private sector
on health costs "
since
"Health care costs
currently averaging $6800
per worker in America"
but then .....
" The notion of having
the federal government
take over an industry
that represents
about 15 percent
of the U.S. economy
in one gulp
gives U.S. executives the willies"
but the tower boyz
are
secretly resigned
to the inevitable ....after all kids
"... the federal government
already runs
defense and law enforcement
so why not healthcare?"
big business's strategy ....
" sneak a single-payer system
in a little bit at a time
first step
a federal takeover
of catastrophic coverage."
the case is too clear ....
"Back in 1970
a year before Canada
switched from an employer-based
insurance company-administered
health system
just like that
in the United States
to a national
single-payer model
both countries were devoting
about 7 percent
of GDP to health care
Today 35 years later
Canada devotes
9 % of GDP
to health care
while the United States
devotes
15 %
Meanwhile, Canada covers all of its citizens"
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April 17, 2005
anti tower boy fury
the "ceo comp packages are out
( as i've
posted here earlier)
and of course
there's
tons
to whoop it up
over in these fatcat numbers....
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and hey i'm a vet
and still...
what fuckin gall
these tower tots have
even
after enron et al
their still heedlessly
upping the pilfer.....
butt fuck
shouldn't
the "screwed crew "
here......
( at least
the one
of interest to us klass wranglers )
shouldn't it
oughta be
what these
fat corporation heads
are doin to
their own hapless
jobsters
we all get
AGITPROPed up OVER ?
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well
check out
these AFL-XXX
staff infections take ....
they find
more to write about
on behalf
of
the harmed nice little outsider
stockholder people
then about
just plain workers ......
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in fact
these weeny wonders
seem to be trying
to fomm
a jobster / stock-fry
" small - stakers alliance"
read this
official
AFL-XXX
thimp tank
broad side
YUP ITS from
right out of
AFL-XXX headquarters.....
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"In 2004
the average CEO
of a major company
received $10 million
in total compensation
a 12 %
increase
over 2003
In contrast
the average worker’s pay
increased
3.6 %
---------12% vs 3.6%
so lets pound on this right?
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" the CEO pay system enriches executives
without regard to their individual performance
or realistic contribution to their company"
------------------ okay kool ----------------------------
"Average
hourly worker
to CEO
pay ratios have dramatically worsened "
--------------- wonderful bang away ----------------
"These executive pay excesses
come at the expense of shareholders
as well as the company's employees "
------------- oh no !
its tiny stake holder time --------------
" companies are moving away from stock options
to more sensible forms of executive compensation
stock options today make up just 31 percent
of a typical CEO’s compensation
down from 69 percent in 2001"
------- shit good news?
for who
the widow wadman ?
what about the profit growth
vs wage growth disaster
since the bushwack? --------------------
" the average stock option overhang
(the total number of shares allotted
for stock options
divided by the number
of shares outstanding)
has reached 17 percent
an all-time high"
----------- stock fry beware! -------------------------
"Stock options were popular
with CEOs because
they did not have to be expensed
in company financial statements"
" not expensing stock options
allowed companies to treat
options like free money "
----------okay ya sure --------------------
" many companies have started paying
their CEOs with actual shares of stock
only if they meet performance benchmarks"
------------good news indeed i'll e mail
the widow and her orphan nephew
nelson wadman the 4th -------------------------
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ya ya ya
sure raz the tower for pilfer max
its not a bad thing
but seems tome
that
job belongs
more
in ralph
nader's bag
division of labor here
cries out for
lettin'
the
" straight arrow legal beagles
the
" we be greener then thou "
and
other assorted
round heads
fan tails
and do hips
take on the tower trolls
this way
yup
its a battle front
in the war
against
our national system of
towerocracy
yup
"take outs is take outs "
but for us alleged wagery orgers
"be gettin on this hoby horse
a ride up the side of
klass struggle mountain
or
down the slop
toward
the great muddle slough ?"
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let's stick to hammerin away
at wage max / hour min
period.......
if you need allies
from among the patty flocks
show you're only after
" a fair share of what we make "
" decent and honest pay
for a good days work"
blah blah blah
and as to the tower take outs...
"good luck and gods speed
between
you stock fry
and the tower tinkers
you guys
deserve it all "
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April 16, 2005
african reds update
Address by Congress of South African Trade Unions
(COSATU) General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, at the
South African Communist Party (SACP) special Congress
April 8, 2005
Durban south africa
excerpt:
"As our bilateral concluded....
the first decade of
liberation
benefited capital
The next decade
must above all benefit
the working class...."
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what 94 brought
"First, we won democratic space within which to
operate underpinned by a progressive
Constitution. You only have to look at our
neighbours in Zimbabwe and Swaziland to
understand the extent of the political space
won by the working class and its allies in
South Africa. This we must guard jealously.
Second, workers have gained rights in the
workplace, as contained in our progressive
labour laws. This year marks the tenth
anniversary of the Labour Relations Act, which
was the first salvo fired by the democratic
government in its efforts to replace the
apartheid labour regime.
We recognise, of course, that we must still do
more work to translate all these pieces of
progressive labour legislation into weapons at
the hands of workers and our activists to
defend and advance interests of workers at the
workplace and in society in general.
The recent much published threat to exempt
small businesses from the aspects of labour
laws points to the correctness of the assertion
that workers gains in any capitalist society
are consistently under threat. We welcome the
government's more recent assurance that it will
not undermine workers' rights. The lesson from
this is, once more, that the price of freedom
is constant vigilance!
The third major gain for the working class was
the provision of basic services, including
shelter, health care, water, electricity,
education and so forth, especially in the rural
areas. Roll out of basic services is critical
in the struggle to transform the gendered
household division of labour and to relieve the
burden currently borne by women. Still,
millions do not have access to these basic
services and there is a real possibility that
rising user fees may cut-off those that
currently enjoy access.
Government's income transfers in the form of
social grants provide a buffer for millions who
otherwise will be plunged into destitution.
Coverage is however not universal and there are
millions of poor people, particularly the
unemployed, that do not have a social safety
net. For this reason, COSATU has called for the
Basic Income Grant as well as mass job
creation. We need real debate on these matters.
Comrades and friends,
While we recognise these gains in democratic
space, social wage and rights at the workplace,
we also recognise that for many workers they
have been offset by deepening unemployment and
poverty and by the failure to deal adequately
with the HIV pandemic.
A new tidal wave of job losses is looming in
mining and clothing and textile sector due in
large part to the strength of the rand. Job
losses and unemployment should be declared a
national disaster.
We have a much higher unemployment than other
middle-income countries. Even if we ignore
those unemployed people who are too discouraged
to seek work, almost 30% of workers here are
jobless. That compares to under 10% in
comparable economies.
The Minister of Finance says these figures must
be wrong because otherwise we would see a
revolution. Three weeks ago I was in Secunda. I
found a massive stayaway and riot. Not even
COSATU knew it was coming. In the past year, a
wave of unrest has swept from Diepsloot in
Gauteng to the Free State and the Western Cape.
The less obvious underswell of crime, family
killings and HIV infections arises largely out
of mass youth unemployment.
True, the past year saw job creation in
construction and retail. But these jobs are
mostly low-paid and insecure. Moreover, they
will not survive long if manufacturing and
mining are shrinking.
The causes of mass unemployment are easily
found. Above all, government has not moved
consistently to restructure the apartheid
economy. Instead, it adopted a neo-liberal
export strategy that left our industries
unprotected and unsupported. Job losses
resulted on a mass scale while new employment
lagged far behind growth in the labour force.
To make matters worse, government simply has no
political will to deal with the overvaluation
of the rand, which is an immediate cause of
mass retrenchments in mining and manufacturing.
Moreover, it has not fast-tracked WTO-legal
safeguard measures for vulnerable industries.
Meanwhile, workers are being thrown onto the
streets.
The underlying problem is simple. Business
knows one way of dealing with anything that
threatens their margins of profitability -
retrenchments at the slightest chance. It would
rather retrench workers than find alternatives.
In particular, we have seen the mining houses
move abroad rather than develop our economy.
Meanwhile, government has not done much to
ensure all its programmes save and create jobs.
The economic growth path since 1994 has
benefited the rich and big business. It has
largely left behind the working class and the
poor who gave their lives to bring this
government into power.
Government seems to be helpless in face of the
scourge of retrenchments and is reluctant to
intervene to counteract job losses. This does
not suggest government does not care - it has
simply does not have ideas on how to avert job
losses and create employment outside of the
public works programmes.
While unemployment is soaring, workers' pay and
conditions have stagnated. The share of workers
earning under R1000 a month has remained
virtually constant even in the formal sector,
at about 25%. That is, even in the formal
sector, one worker in four earns under R1000 a
month. Even in the unions, half of our members
get less than R2500 a month.
Low pay is reflected in the declining share of
wages and salaries in the national income. In
1994, workers got 51% of the national income;
in 2004, their share had fallen to 46%. That is
an indictment for our democratic society. It
demonstrates that there is no easy trade off
between low pay and jobs - we have got low pay,
and we're still not getting the jobs.
Against this background we need to ask the
difficult question: Is the NDR on course? There
no doubt that the democratic ANC-led government
has registered progress in laying the basis for
non-racial, non-sexist democratic South Africa
as envisaged in the Freedom Charter. Yet
political transformation has not been matched
by substantial transformation of economic
power. The recent bilateral between COSATU and
the SACP concluded that in the economy, capital
has gained the most from the past decade. In
economic terms, capital scored the most and has
reaped massive profits at the back of large-
scale retrenchments.
Economic power is still in the hands of white
monopoly capital. The aspirant and vocal black
bourgeoisie remains numerically small and
depends heavily on the state and white business
for its survival.
In these circumstances, state power remains
both a critical instrument for reshaping the
economy, and a key site of contestation between
capital and workers, reflected in conflicts
within the bureaucracy and political
leadership. In this contestation, the working
class has in the past five years won some space
for change, reversing the dedication to free
markets and budget cuts experienced under GEAR.
But we must still go much further. The
accumulation path inherited from apartheid and
subjected to the chill winds of international
competition is now a brake to progress to
achieve the economic aims of the NDR. The NDR
cannot and will not be pursued on a terrain of
an apartheid economy - the time for serious
transformation and a new growth path has come.
As our bilateral concluded, the first decade of
liberation benefited capital in economic terms.
The next decade must above all benefit the
working class and the poor,
* by creating employment on a mass scale;
* by ensuring more equitable ownership,
including through land reform, development
of a co-operatives movement and
transformation of the financial sector;
* by establishing an effective, holistic
campaign to end the HIV pandemic, including
the mass roll out of anti-retrovirals;
* by building working class culture through
transformation of the schools, media and
cultural institutions;
and
* By strengthening participatory policy-making
to empower our people in all aspects of
life.
First, we must mobilise our power to fight the
wave of retrenchments. We need to demand that
both business and government do more to protect
and create employment. We can no longer sit by
and watch as our members lose their livelihoods
while their grown-up children stay home, having
had no chance of getting a job since they left
school.
For this reason, COSATU has brought a dispute
on the unemployment crisis to NEDLAC. We are
developing a programme of action, including
mobilisation for mass action, which will be
debated by our CEC at the end of May.
Unemployment cannot just be a crisis for the
poor and for workers, neglected by leaders in
business and the state.
Second, we need to strengthen our organisation.
In the past few weeks, I was able to spend a
lot of time with comrades in two of our COSATU
regions. The biggest lesson I learned is that
we need to recognise that the recruitment of
workers into the federation depends on a
successful organisational development drive to
improve service to members and the pick up our
gains in terms of workers' rights.
In short, the future of the democratic and
revolutionary trade union movement depends on
the successful implementation of four
interlinked campaigns:
* To strengthen our organisations so as to
serve our members and ensure worker
control;
* To drive recruitment so that on-going
retrenchments and restructuring do not
undermine the organisation of the working
class;
* To pick up our gains, so that workers
really benefit from their rights in the
workplace; and
* To mobilise to protect and create jobs
for all.
Given these challenges, what does the working
class expect of its Party?
First, we assume that the SACP cannot simply
walk out of government.
That means you have to
discuss how to link efforts to build power and
campaigns outside of the state with work within
the state.
Usually, this problem emerges as the
question of how
do we give a voice
to our
people
when the state
has undertaken mistaken
policies,
without undermining
long-term
relations
that can also bring benefits?
the working class
does not have the luxury
to be despondent
Setbacks must be used
to draw
lessons and to march ahead
History is on our
side!
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raw quebec stands up
Raw- wagery
action alliances are
maybe coming alive in quebec
as often happens
raw students fire off
the first wild salvos
then on occasion
with the taste of
plutonic blood
in the air
a too long languid wagery
erupts ....
" Between 60,000 and 100,000
militant students marched in Montréal
on March 16
Thousands more marched
in Québec City,
Sherbrooke,
Trois-Rivière,
and just about every other Québec locality
with a community college
or University
Students blocked the Port of Montréal
closed down the lucrative Montréal casino
blocked Federal Highway 40
and occupied various government
and Liberal party offices
in Québec City and Montréal
often for days at a time
In all, close to 300,000 students
went on strike
closing almost all public higher education
in Quebec for up to seven weeks
(and continuing on many campuses)
Up to 15,000 secondary school students
joined demonstrations in solidarity
with backing from teacher's unions
Many University and comm-col
professors' and administrators' associations
also endorsed the strike
as did a wide range
of Quebec's other labor unions
The strike began February 23
with a walkout by 30,000 comm-col and University students
organized by the student association CASSÉÉ
The motivating grievance
was a drastic cut
in student stipends
from the Quebec government
beginning with this academic year's
promised amount
ASSÉÉ included in its demands
an end to the Liberal government's
planned privatization and decentralization
of some comm-cols
and other higher education programs
as well as a call for free tuition
and "humanistic curricula."
Among the French-speaking
working-class students
CASSÉÉ itself grew rapidly
in membership
now up to about 60,000.
All during March
the cities of Montréal and Québec
were swarming with student militants
hunger strikes,
streets barricaded with tires and garbage,
teach ins
and bed-ins
Everywhere
from the fashionable cafés
of St. Denis
to the gay village
the tourist-filled Old City
and the Parc LaFontaine
the red felt patch
symbolizing resistance was visible
not only on students
but on many sympathizers
among the gentry of the Plateau
and the queens along St. Catherine's
Drivers in cars blocked by demonstrators
waited patiently and smiled
or waved at the students
Call-in shows
were full of supportive comments
and opinion polls showed
more than 70% of Québecers
still supported the strike
at the end of March
after all the disruptions
The provincial Liberal government of Jean Charest
hads
the highest disapproval rating
of any sitting governmentin canada
about 70%.
On April 3, the Liberal government
caved almost completely
on the student stipends-p
romising to restore immediately
70% this year, and 100 %
in coming years
They also shelved immediate plans
for privatization and decentralization
Campus by campus votes were taken
and some already began to reopen by April 6
Others
--including the largest unit
at UQAM in Montréal--
extended the strike at least until April 15
The elite campus
of the University of Montréal
voted April 8 for its 40,000 students
to remain on strike
CASSÉÉ took the lead in attempting
to broaden the student strike
toward a more general protest
against Liberal cutbacks
They declared a second round
of so-called "echo" demonstrations
in solidarity with all workers
and social services
against the "neo-liberal" platform
of Charest--"
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HARD BALL
WAL-MART PLAYS FOR KEEPS
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WAL-MART:
washington post april 14 2005
" Wal-mart
The retailing behemoth
whose $10 billion annual profits
are based on low prices
low expenses
and lower wages
announced it will shut
the doors
AT ONE QUEBEC store
after workers there voted
to make this store
the first unionized Wal-Mart
in North America .......
The closure will leave
190 employees
out of work
a clear warning
for workers
at other Wal-Mart stores
who might contemplate
defying founder Sam Walton's
sharp distaste for unions "
" The world's largest retail chain
has fiercely and successfully
resisted unionization attempts
at its 3,600 stores
in the United States
Its closest call
ended in Texas in 2000
when a store there eliminated
its meat department
after 11 meat cutters voted
to join a union "
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obviously
both
the union 's
strategy and tactics must improve
and my take
an eclectic tossed salad
of old techniques
no matter how they're
recombined tossed and mixed
won't work
what will work ?
a massive wave of flash occupations
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two purse swingers go at it again
here's a HAPPY story
gettin viewed
STRAIGHT UP
through its ass hole .....
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notice how these fey scrappers
actually got the job done better
cause there was contention
and still want to have their anti movement
anti unorged wagery
sector
exclusionary rights
preserved
fuck the rotten fruits
"let a thousand unions contend "
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SEIU VS AFSCME :
OR
WHEN LACE PANTY UNIONS COLLIDE
" on the streets of Chicago
organizers from the two sides
boosted with staff
from outside the state
became increasingly confrontational
and tires of AFSCME organizers
were even slashed
SEIU, which had nearly 500 organizers
of its own from around the country
brought in nearly 200 organizers
for a weekend
from several of its allies
in the contest within the AFL-CIO
UNITE HERE,
Teamsters,
Laborers
and United Food and Commercial Workers.
After the election had already started
SEIU filed charges
with the AFL-CIO
against AFSCME
and quickly won a decision
that it had the exclusive right
to organize
based on its having started
a substantial campaign
with a good chance
of winning far earlier
than AFSCME
The confrontation between AFSCME and SEIU
is rooted in a recent history
of conflicts in Illinois
but it also reflects
difficult issues in the debate
about labor movement restructuring
and there's a good chance
that the two big unions
could confront each other again
in other states
unless their leaders
can work out some understanding
the complex feud in Illinois
between two unions
was triggered
by the defection
of one SEIU local
from a hospital contract coalition
in 2002
undercutting AFSCME's bargaining
But it escalated
through a series of incidents
in which each union
blames the other
for misconduct
or sabotaging the other
In 2003 it erupted in a battle
over AFSCME's decision
to try to organize home healthcare workers
where SEIU Local 880
had long established a presence
AFSCME criticized
the governor's executive order
and eventual legislation
which made home healthcare workers
(and eventually, in a separate order
daycare workers)
a distinct type of employee
of the state
rather than of an independent commission
as in many other states
"With the homecare workers
we feel that SEIU lowered the standards
of state employees,"
"They're the only state employees
without health insurance or pensions,"
and were excluded
from state responsibility
for workers' compensation.
SEIU responds that with collective bargaining rights, SEIU was able to raise the pre-existing low standards
and that now the union
is fighting to expand
on its gains to win
insurance and other protections
There was no way
the SEIU argued
that the state was politically willing
at a time of extreme budget pressures
to make these tens of thousands
of low-wage workers
full-fledged state employees immediately.
SEIU leaders say
that the union delayed filing charges
with the AFL-CIO
for a variety of reasons:
They were surprised by AFSCME's success
in signing petitions;
they counted on Sweeney
to act without formal charges;
they worried that filing charges
might delay the election.
But the decision reflects
complexities of the current national debate
Despite denigrating the effectiveness
of the AFL-CIO
and the procedures
giving organizing rights
SEIU quickly won a favorable decision
after it filed its protest
At the same time
the decision was made
on the basis of SEIU's being present first
and both AFSCME and SEIU
have argued that the criteria
should include other considerations
such as whether
the workers in question
are part of a union's
core jurisdiction
(which both SEIU and AFSCME
now claim for childcare workers)
Also, SEIU and its allies
have argued that the AFL-CIO
should prevent contracts
that bring down standards
for an industry
but the SEIU and AFSCME debate
over standards in Illinois reveals
how complex that decision can be
While there has been a debate
over how much money to devote
to organizing and politics
AFSCME has argued most forcefully
that political action
to neutralize employer opposition
is the most solidly proven route
to organizing success
SEIU in Illinois demonstrated
how that political strategy can work.
By calling in organizers
from its labor movement allies
SEIU's campaign also demonstrated
how unions can come together
to help each other win
large-scale organizing victories
It's the kind of solidarity
that is essential
but nearly nonexistent
last having shown up
nearly a decade ago
in support
of an only partly successful
United Farm Workers campaign
to organize strawberry workers
Unfortunately
it took a fight between two unions
not a fight with an employer
to revive such solidarity this time.
The Illinois victory
was a great triumph for unions
in hard times
a reflection of long and hard organizing work
and a critical political victory
It opens a door
to future victories but also
unfortunately
to the potential
of future conflict between
at least SEIU and AFSCME
over childcare workers
in other states
unless top union leaders
can figure out a way to work together
"I hope these issues can get resolved,"
says Balanoff
, "and we can all be working
toward building the labor movement
and working together."
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the strip goes on
these stats have all had
a posting or two here
but lets bang em out again
the job market hell jobs themselves
here in amerika are
gettin more nasty............
" Today, one in four workers
30 million Americans
hold jobs that pay below
$9.00 an hour"
----- okay herb
you say
thats old hat boo hooo
but.....----------------
"the trend
is clear:
high wage jobs
are taking on
the characteristics
of low-wage jobs
1 little job security
2 stagnant wages
3 decreasing
benefits"
" today
Fewer than one-fifth
of large and medium-sized companies
pay the full cost of employees’
health premiums"
--------------- and this is headed
toward zero for sure ---------
" Nearly half of full-time workers
were covered by traditional
defined benefit pensions
30 years ago
Today, that number is below 20 percent"
----------- and also headed to zero ----------------
" the Bureau of Labor Statistics
shows that today
a middle-aged man
is likely to be in his job
for 71/2 years
down from 11 years
just 25 years ago"
------------- from an average
4-5 jobs
in a job life
to 6-7 ----------------
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April 11, 2005
fuck me and comment
where are the comments?
i now yer out there
readin this shit.........
we got a secret counter
and hey
i know
you know
the idea behind
post it up stuff like this
(outside
the fun house mirror department
at least)
is
to try to get some
nasty cross words flyin' around
so whats wrong ?
I started FORWARD passing this head wash
NEAR 7 MONTHS AGO NOW
but
up till today
outside of a few stray kats
its been
nada nada nada
(that is
besides my own gang
of lawless dip sticks)
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no
i've gotten
zero
" BACK AT MES"
so start
"BACK AT ME" - ing
now
PICK ONE OF THESE FUCKIN FLOATERS OFF
and run it back down my throat
come on
YOU two grand worth a FOUR EYED
ass holes
fuckin start BRINGIN'
IT
BACK AT ME
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exploitation rises
LA times :
"last year
the consumer price index rose 2.7%.
But wages rose only 2.5%"
( Meanwhile up in the tower...)
" corporate profits
hit record highs
as companies got
more and more
productivity
out of their workers "
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and then the times
goes on to the usual
boo hoo for the boobs
fest
" workers' wallets are being pummeled
by something of a perfect storm
of economic forces:
a weak job market
rising health insurance premiums
fuel cost spikes ...."
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but then we get a ( R.A.U. PIT )
mention...
"The biggest factor
is the slack employment market"
---SO SLACK IN FACT THAT ---------------
"people are dropping
out of the labor market
at a greater rate
than anytime since 1988 "
----------- SINCE BEFORE
THE LAST BUSH BUILT RECESSION -----------------
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THE BENE COST BINGE
" Although pay rose
only about 2.4% last year
benefit costs jumped almost 7%"
" employers also are requiring
workers to pay a greater share
of their premiums"
A PUNDIT QUOTE:
"In the long run
things
can't continue like this....
If healthcare
keeps crowding out wages
forever
something's got to give"
INDEED
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A FACT:
" for 47% of the workforce
employers
don't directly provide
their health insurance"
ANOTHER FACT:
"Historically
periods
when wage growth
is outpaced by inflation
rarely last
more than 18 months"
are u re- assured mates?
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not so bad as it might be .....
"Despite the failure of their wages
to keep pace with inflation
American consumers
have kept shopping.....
Consumer spending
has continued to rise"
-----------
WHY ?
-------------------
" Home prices rose
9% nationwide
from February 2004 to February 2005.....
sheltering consumers
and the economy
from much of the pinch
of stagnant wages
and higher prices"
---------- the joy inside
greenspans neat mortgage rate
trick explained --------------------
"There's been a home value driven
wealth effect
afoot throughout
much of the recession
and the recovery"
-------------- better
called still got
the ability to borrow effect -----------
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unemployed private accounts
talk about private accounts
how about uncle buildin one
for every laid off jobster ?
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okay so you're laid off
the gub sets up an account
based on a formula to be named later....
now you can draw it out
at any rate slower then
x% per week
go out get a job the next week
you get to keep
all the money in the account
simple nice fair
hey its wonderful
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we should reward the laid off
not punish em
on the calvinest side
we've
remove the fast max
rejob
dis-incentive
lodged in the present system
treat laid off types like wounded soldiers
fallen hero's in a righteous cause
productivity max
no scratch that
don't treat em like
we treat wounded soldiers
why not ?
well
ask my raw friend
Son of Sam
over at samm -- clubs HQ
(presently i believe
the clubs temporary HQ
is cell 273
Boone county house of detention
boone county north carolina
which as the crow flies
is about
8 miles southwest
of fort bragg
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ps pards
i learned up on this type of
high concept stuff
durin my recent
two week retreat
up there
in and aroundthe shaggy pines
of
lake carson
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April 08, 2005
wall mutts arise ?
once more on baggin'
the big cahuna
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Leveraging Labor’s Revival: A Proposal to Organize Wal-
Mart
By Wade Rathke
As the debate concerning labor’s future rages on,
prodded by Andy Stern, International President of the
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and
answered by one union after another, President Sweeney
has agreed on the need for debate and the need to form
committees to discuss the various proposals generated.
Workers in general and union members in specific can
hardly find cause for inspiration or action in these
multi-point programs. This is true, except in one very
important area: the proposal for a full-scale campaign
against Wal-Mart.
In the case of Wal-Mart, Stern has argued that one
clear "purpose" for the AFL-CIO is in leading campaigns
which transcend the interests of any single union and
find common cause for all unions and indeed all working
people. He has publicly argued in the debates around
restructuring the federation that as much as $25
million should be set aside for the Wal-Mart campaign,
virtually earmarking all of the HSBC/Household credit
card money that goes to the federation. Sweeney has
shrewdly stated publicly that perhaps even $25 million
is not enough to fight Wal-Mart - indicating that it
might take even more! Disappointingly, very few other
unions have taken up the battle cry over Wal-Mart,
perhaps because they believe that this is all just an
argument between one or two people and a half dozen
unions, rather than a fight for the future for American
workers.
I would argue that a campaign on all fronts against
Wal-Mart is the single organizing effort that offers
the most hope for working families. Furthermore,
driving an organizing program around Wal-Mart and its
workers could potentially change the tide for labor and
create organizational capacities that would give us
fighting and winning forces for our future.
Wal-Mart and its wannabes are the GM’s, Fords,
Chryslers and US Steels of our time. The great
organizing drives of the 1930s were mounted around an
understanding that there was a new industrial force
reorganizing all of mass work. Wal-Mart and its clones
have similarly restructured the nature of mass
enterprise in service industries today, and therefore
are transforming the fundamental business model that
drives both domestic and international commerce.
The size, scale, strength, and location of the company
are a direct challenge to almost any usual or common
organizing strategy. One cannot go store by store with
NLRB-style direct certification elections. There are
just too, too many stores to believe that one could
conceivably get a handle on the company in this way.
Furthermore, the United Food & Commercial Workers
(UFCW) has already tried this model aggressively and
thrown the kitchen sink at the company without much
success. One cannot also underestimate the weakness of
the current law and the robber baron ruthlessness of
the company and its culture. The often repeated true
story of the UFCW winning an election in a butchery
department in the Dallas area and Wal-Mart switching
every store in the American empire to processed meat
speaks volumes of the futility of this approach
A market-oriented strategy effective in direct
recognition successes in other industries is also
unlikely to be effective in organizing Wal-Mart.
Arguably the southern California market had UFCW’s best
contracts and highest unionization rates, yet the
threat of Wal-Mart’s entry was sufficient to
destabilize the bargaining relationships preemptively,
rather than forcing Wal-Mart to move up to the market
rates and benefits in order to enter the area. The
power and efficiency of the Wal-Mart business model
acts as a pervasive threat regardless of unionization.
Recently, as Wal-Mart replaced Albertson’s as the
number one grocery seller in the Dallas-Fort Worth
market, Albertson’s countered by publicly announcing
that it was unilaterally moving the bulk of its 20,000
workers in that area to part-time status with no
benefits.
To state the obvious - there is no easy way to organize
Wal-Mart workers. Furthermore, there is a pervasive
culture that militates against organization, along with
a generation of union avoidance work that permeates all
parts of the personnel system. It is not cowardice, but
good judgment that brings us to the basic conclusion
that to organize these workers one must build a
different kind of formation than we have seen
previously. The mission cannot be to create simple
"bread and butter" unionization for Wal-Mart workers;
instead, as both Stern and Sweeney have argued, the
grand vision has to be achieving change and a voice for
all workers.
Get the idea of collective bargaining out of your mind.
Collective bargaining requires two parties committed to
at least a minimal level of good faith in practice and
a concession of a countervailing level of power between
management and labor. Currently, such programs are
unimaginable at Wal-Mart and therefore at best a
distraction. The mismatched imbalance of power is too
extreme to imagine winning an agreement now. We need to
put pressure on wages and benefits, and envision an
organization that exerts constant pressure in a way
that is unnatural under a bargaining regime. The first
priority for workers at Wal-Mart has to be building a
powerful organization on the job and in public vis a
vis their employer.
Efforts to engage the community in conjunction with
other allies on the requirements for new Wal-Mart store
sites, including community benefits, have become
increasingly successful. There are now examples like
living wages (won in Chicago), store access (won
recently in Hartford), environmental protections and
disclosures (conceded in Tarpon Springs, Florida). The
missing agreement has been a formation that includes
Wal-Mart workers asserting their own interests and
objectives in the community. Similar fights with a
worker face and voice would empower a worker
association.
For workers to create an association at the workplace
they will need a strong alliance of support in the
community acting in concert with them and protecting
their efforts to create space for organization and
struggle. Such an alliance should be constructed on the
broadest possible framework in order to unite all other
organizations and interests who have an issue that
engages the company and its practice. Community
organizations like ACORN, and other civic organizations
have raised concern about store traffic, location,
safety, sprawl, and its impact on the community.
Immigrant and civil rights groups have raised issues
around discriminatory employment practices. Women’s and
labor groups have raised issues about sex
discrimination in pay and promotions. Environmental
groups have concerns that range from sprawl to green
practices. Consumer groups have raised issues
concerning toxic cosmetics, shoddy foreign goods,
questionable financial services, and an array of
similar issues. From such a burgeoning array of groups
a very broad alliance could be constructed linking the
interests inside the company with the public force of
its activity.
Besides bringing together community organizations and
institutions into such an alliance, there should also
be an effort to recruit individual support for workers
and their families who are organizing the association.
This can be done in numerous ways (via canvass,
internet, door to door, etcetera), but it is essential
that there be a direct, independent, and large base of
public support for the alliance and the association to
offset the tactics that will be predictably taken by
the company.
Critical to both of these efforts would be a
stakeholder not usually seen in classic labor
organizing: former employees. Wal-Mart, and companies
that are following its business model, churn through
the workforce. Wal-Mart claims that its turnover is now
down to about 40 percent, but with 1.2 million workers
that is still a huge number of workers - more than
500,000 - to spit out on an annual basis. These workers
have experience with the company, have gained some
perspective from their distance from the culture and
the paycheck, and in many cases have issues about
rights abridged and are even potential beneficiaries of
efforts to reform the company’s practices. They have a
common cause and their voice is an important one to add
in reforming the company, therefore a place should be
made for them in this new type of organizational
formation. The inability of most unions to allow useful
and vital participation from workers who are
unemployed, laid off, or fired is a critical weakness
of the political structure of such institutions. We
should not allow such barriers to exist in this new
formation, because we need the help of such former
workers for their own sake and in order to support both
community and existing worker activity.
Stern’s call for a campaign against Wal-Mart, and
Sweeney’s rejoinder to bring it on, but perhaps in an
even larger way, is potentially the best news American
workers have heard in several decades. At the least, a
serious and well-resourced campaign focusing on Wal-
Mart, even if it does nothing more than force the
company to establish a fairer business model, will make
a difference to Wal-Mart workers and their allies. It
would also send the message to unorganized workers
throughout the United States that labor cares - and
will act - in behalf of the unorganized and oppressed.
At the most, the Wal-Mart battle cry could create new
momentum for mass organization among the literally tens
of millions of unorganized service workers in firms
both gargantuan and tiny, who are united in denying
workers basic wages, benefits, and rights and are able
to do so because workers lack voice and organization on
the necessary scale.
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doin primary socialization don't pay shit
a lazee suzann post:
read this
and
then go piss up a rope
"
America's child care providers
average wage :
$8.37 per hour
and
pre-school teachers
average wage:
$10.75 per hour
" those first 4 years
of a child's life
are
the most critical
for both cognitive
and social
development
yet
in bushmill amerika
it pays better
to teach dogs to do tricks "
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the pay sucks so bad
child care workers
rarely stay at their jobs
The turnover
in the child care industry:
40 percent per annum
this has gotta
undermines
quality
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comparison:
the wages
of early childhood workers
vs
kindergarten teachers
Kindergarten teachers
on average earn $20.37 per hour
more than double
the average wage
of child care workers
tell me ass holes
is there
a $10 per hour
difference
between teaching
a 4-year
and
teaching
a 5-year old
the real diff:
When it comes
to K-12 education
the general public
pays
the cost through
property taxes
and other state revenues
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check this out .....
at the Post-secondary level
parents pay
only 23 percent
of the total costs
of higher education
but Currently
parents pay roughly
60 percent
of early childcare costs
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sum up:
20 per hour to teach k
but fuck
8-10 per hour for pre k
half the wage...
ask yourself this
that buys us all what?
how much better
then
half the care ? ------------
and as to the ass backwards
public subsidy department
gub picks up
77 % of the higher ed bill
but only
40 % of pre k ?
heres a quid pro quo
hows about
we geeps
pay
100 %
of
whatever
the fucking cost
are
of any and all our fucking
college years
and
uncle and his fifty sons
pays
90%
of all
our nearly necessary
hardly optional
pre k costs
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