From leonard@servtech.com Wed Oct 2 16:37:29 1996 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:37:07 -0400 (EDT) To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: "Robert L. Leonard" Subject: Privatization Web Page The Coalition For The Preservation of Golf and Parks is a group that formed to fight the privatization of the three public golf courses in Monroe County, New York. I am pleased to announce that this group now has a Web Page for your viewing enjoyment. The address is: http://207.122.1.2/~golf/ Please look over the page and let us know what you think.. Robert L. Leonard CSEA New York/AFSCME Leonard@servtech.com From rross@clarku.edu Thu Oct 3 10:05:06 1996 labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu; Thu, 03 Oct 1996 12:03:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 12:04:57 -0400 From: "Robert J.S. Bob Ross" Subject: worcester telegram oped 10/2/96 To: Labor List Organization: Prof. and Chair of Sociology, Clark University A SEA OF SWEATSHOPS BY Robert J.S. Ross They crouch on the sidewalk, peering out at the camera, bewildered fearful prisoners. These 62 immigrant Thai workers, were held prisoners in a slave garment factory nestled deceitfully in an El Monte, California condo complex. Our outrage now turns to bewilderment — there are thousands, hundreds of thousands of these garment workers, toiling below the minimum wage. Their conditions are like those current in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, when 146 women and children died, locked in a garment sweatshop. Here is sweatshop worker Nancy Peñaloza, describing at a Washington, D.C., forum, how she worked sewing women's suits earning $6 each. The suits are sold for more than $120. "I work at least 56 hours a week, Monday to Saturday. Sometimes I work 66 hours a week. If there is a lot of work, I have to work on Sunday. I never get a vacation. I never even get a whole weekend off. Sometimes I have to work on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas." "The factory is very dirty, " she said. "When I'm working, I'm afraid because the rats and mice crawl on my feet. There is only one bathroom for 150 people, and it is very dirty. . . . " The General Accounting Office of the Congress estimates there are 50,000 workers in New York City alone who share Nancy Peñazola's working conditions. The Department of Labor found important violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act in half of their inspections. Some say the new sweatshops are caused by the new immigration which followed the 1965 reforms. There is a flaw in the reasoning which attributes the new sweatshops solely to the new immigrants. If sweatshops were caused by immigrants, then the Puerto Rican women who came to the Northeast in the 50's and 60's, and who became the mainstay of the garment industry's low-wage labor force, should have faced sweatshop conditions — that is, violations of the minimum wage, overtime, and health and safety regulations of the time. A review of the histories of Puerto Rican garment workers of that era shows that actual violations were relatively rare, despite the poverty of those migrants, their high unemployment, and their relative lack of formal education and English language proficiency. Today's workers from the Dominican Republic are more highly exploited than the last generation's Puerto Rican workers. The change driving sweatshops then, is more than immigration, it is to a significant degree the increase in imports. In 1950, we Americans purchased 2 percent of our apparel from abroad, and now we buy 60 percent from abroad. These imports preponderantly come from poor nations — particularly where workers are poor and their rights are repressed. When big retailers or manufacturers (that is, buyers who put their labels on garments) put out contracts for cutting, sewing and pressing, they demand bids which are competitive with the lowest prices on the international market. These are often prices which assume child labor in poor countries or health and safety standards significantly worse than our own. Contractors in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Miami must then bid below American standards of living -- or simply fail to get the job. But as Nancy Peñazola's case shows, we consumers do not necessarily get cheaper clothes: the big chains get higher mark-ups. This is now an industrial horror — what the apparel workers' union, UNITE, calls a "sea of sweatshops." But we are not powerless. We can put an end to this gross violation of the standards of decency our parents and grandparents suffered so much to attain. First, we can demand enforcement of the laws we have. The Wages and Hours Division has but 800 inspectors to protect 110 million workers in 6 million work places. This is not enough to do the job. For those who say they want smaller government, the answer is quite simple: We want and need a government no larger than that adequate to its tasks. This inspection force is simply too small. Inspection will not be enough. There are two domestic strategies which hold manufacturers and retailers accountable for what they sell and label. One uses present law, the strategy of Secretary of Labor Robert Reich -- to keep "hot goods" -- those made in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act -- from being sold. The other is stronger -- to pass a new law which holds manufacturers and retailers liable for the conditions under which the clothes they sell are made. Consumers can also demand that manufacturers monitor the compliance of the contractors and that they certify this compliance with decent standards by sewing a label in garments which comply. As of now, the only safe label for a conscientious consumer is a union label. No solution can be only domestic. The new sweatshops prove that only a world in which workers are treated justly everywhere can protect our own or others' civic fabric. We must demand that our trading partners honor workers' rights. Until then, the bewildered eyes of the Thai immigrants will speak in doleful volumes of all of the workers submerged in a nasty brutish world of ruthless competition. -- Robert J. S. Ross 508 793 7243 Professor and Chair of Sociology fax: 508 793 8816 Clark University Rross@vax.clarku.edu 950 Main Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 From delgado@orion.oac.uci.edu Thu Oct 3 11:24:27 1996 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:24:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Hector Delgado To: LABOR-RAP Subject: Pacific Sociological Conference Sessions Dear Labor rappers: The Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) will have its Annual Meeting in San Diego April 17-20, 1997. I'm organizing two sessions. The first is a panel discussion with labor organizers entitled "New Immigrants, New Unions? The focus will be on recent organizing efforts in California of immigrant workers and the degree to which the labor movement is adjusting to demographic, economic, and other changes in the way it organizes workers. The panel may include an academic or two, perhaps to open and/or comment on the presentations by organizers. If you know of individuals who will be good for such a panel, please write to or call me. The second session, which I'm organizing with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, is entitled "Organizing Immigrant Workers: Does Gender Matter?" I hope that the title is self explanatory. If you're interested in presenting, or know of someone, including graduate students doing work in the area, again, please contact me. I need to pull these sessions together by the end of the month, so please respond at your earliest convenience. Thanks. Hector L. Delgado Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 Work: 714-824-1419 Home: 818-798-5232 e-mail: delgado@uci.edu From petrasem@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Thu Oct 3 12:35:39 1996 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:36:22 -0500 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: petrasem@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Elizabeth McLean Petras) Subject: Re: Pacific Sociological Conference Sessions Dear Hector, I would be interested in presenting a paper on the panel about gender, immigrant workers and labor organizing. I've written something on this issue based on the Mujer Obrera model in El Paso, plus study of the garment industry in Seattle and Philadelphia. I argue that gender, culture, and, of course, class, based in the community is essential to organizing in small, decentralized industry (read, subcontracting sweatshops). I have some concrete proposals. I'll send you a summary if you're interested. Elizabeth Petras From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Thu Oct 3 14:04:57 1996 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:46:49 -0700 (PDT) To: united@cougar.com, peterd@spiritone.com, labr.party@conf.igc.org, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Recent GAO Report on Union Activity at Social Security Admin. Sender: meisenscher@igc.org WARNING: The following report and abstract is of possible interest/concern to trade unionists, especially federal and other public employee unionists. It appears to be a possible prelude to the privatization of SS, which is likely to be high on Clinton's second term agenda (or Dole's first). They are gathering ammunition against the union at SSA. This will become an element in the argument that SS could be more efficiently administered in the private sector. Forewarned is forearmed. Let's not wait for the seige before mounting a defense. In solidarity, Michael The report can be found at the GAO web site. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/newtitle.htm. Scroll down the list of reports until you find this one. You can punch up the entire report for this abstract. Instructions are provided for downloading. Social Security: Union Activity at the Social Security Administration. Letter Report, 10/02/96, GAO/HEHS-97-3. [Brief citations] Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the time and expenses devoted to union activities at the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other large federal agencies, focusing on: (1) how SSA accounts for employee salaries and expenses for union activities; and (2) union activities in the private sector. GAO found that: (1) federal agencies have the discretion to grant employees official time for certain union activities as long as the official time is deemed reasonable, necessary, and in the public interest; (2) government employee unions are significantly involved in operational and management decisions, but generally cannot bargain over employees' pay and other economic benefits; (3) the time spent on union activities at SSA has grown from 254,000 hours annually to at least 413,000 hours annually at a cost of $12.6 million; (4) SSA pays the salaries and expenses of about 200 employees to represent the interests of 52,000 employees represented by unions at SSA; (5) the number of full-time union representatives at SSA grew from 80 to 145 between 1993 and 1995; and (6) although SSA is developing a new system to track the time spent on union activities, it plans to replace only the automated reporting system for union representatives in SSA field offices. GAO also found that: (1) union representatives at the Postal Service spent 1.7 million hours on union activities related to grievances in fiscal year (FY) 1995; (2) Internal Revenue Service representatives reported spending 527,000 hours on union activities in FY 1995; (3) workers in the private sector are more likely to financially support their unions because these unions bargain over employee wages, hours, and benefits; and (4) some private-sector employers pay at least some of the salaries and expenses of their union representatives. Michael Eisenscher Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program Univ. of MA-Boston New Address, Effective October 1, 1996: 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org From eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu Thu Oct 3 14:56:09 1996 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:50:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Ellen R Shaffer To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Global economy seminars on tape Students at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health invited noted scholars at our campus to present their views on issues related to the global economy and health care last spring in a series of seminars. Our questions included: Why does the drive to eliminate budget deficits keep getting in the way of funding for a public health and human rights agenda? Why is the workforce of maquilas in developing countries primarily female? What links privatization, international competition, and the growth of the political right wing? How does economic inequality affect health status? We taped the sessions, and I thought some of you might be interested in listening to one or more of them. I'm listing below the speakers and their topics. If you would like a copy of a tape, please read on. I've also listed readings and email references the speakers suggested for the class, including their upcoming publications, and a couple of additional readings that may be of interest. (There's more, for those of you who want an even longer email.) The speakers and their topics were: 1. David Harvey: Critique of Globalization 2. David Harvey: Impact of Urbanization on Democracy and the Environment 3. Erica Schoenberger: Multinational Corporations and the Globalization of the Economy 4. Harvey Brenner: Impact on Health and Mortality of Global Restructuring 5. Vicente Navarro: Employment and Unemployment in the U.S. and Europe 6. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly: Rethinking Gender in the Global Economy: Latin America and Beyond 7. Howard Jackson and Baltimore BUILD: The Baltimore Living Wage Campaign (this session was a presentation and Q&A with local activists) We also heard a wonderful lecture from Christopher Chase-Dunn on The Future of the World System: Global State Formation and the World Part. Unfortunately it did not pick up on the tape. His readings and email citations are below. To order tapes: 1. Send me an email reply (eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu) and tell me which number(s) & name(s) you want, so I can prepare a copy. 2. Send me a check BY MAIL to cover the cost of the 120 minute tape ($1.70) plus postage. Please include your name & address, so I know where to send the tape(s). The total cost, including first class postage, envelope & tapes, is: For one tape: $3.25 2 : 5.85 3 : 7.70 4 : 10.70 5 : 12.50 6 : 14.20 7 : 15.90 My address is: Ellen Shaffer 807 Arrington Drive Silver Spring, MD 20901 Readings by these speakers (Note: I am NOT distributing any of these readings - they're for your reference): David Harvey: Globalization article in forthcoming issue of the journal "ReThinking Marxism;" other material in "Justice, Ntaure and the Geography of Difference," published by Basil Blackwell Christopher Chase-Dunn: "Journal of World-Systems Research," free online at http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html Also: "Toward a Praxis of World Integration," W. Warren Wagar, History Dept., Binghampton University, presentation at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, Sugust 19-23, 1995. "The Next World War: World System Cycles and Trends," Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, in Journal of World Systems Research, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1995. Harvey Brenner: chapter in "Society and Health," Benjamin Amick, Sol Levine, Alvin Tarlov, Diana Chapman Walsh, editors, Oxford University Press, 1995. Erica Schoenberger: "The Cultural Crisis of the Firm," Blackwell Publishers, Oxford (forthcoming Dec. 1996) Vicente Navarro: Editor, "International Journal of Health Services," Baywood Publishing Co., PO Box 337, Amityville NY, 11701 Also: "Dangerous to Your Health," and "The Politics of Health Policy" Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly: "Making Sense of Gender in the World Economy: Focus on Latin America," in "Organization" Vol 1(2): 249-275, SAGE 1994. Additional readings (again, these are just a few of many): John Russo, "Corporate Restructuring and Competitive Strategies: The Impact on Health Care Workers and the Response of Their Unions," Labor Studies Program, Management Department, Youngstown State University. Gerald Epstein, Julie Graham, Jessica Nembhard, "Creating a New World Economy: Forces of Change and Plans for Action," Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1993. From gwolff@ucla.edu Thu Oct 3 23:53:56 1996 Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 22:56:51 -0800 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: gwolff@ucla.edu (Goetz Wolff) Subject: Re: Global economy seminars on tape Please send me all seven of the following tapes: >1. David Harvey: Critique of Globalization >2. David Harvey: Impact of Urbanization on Democracy and the Environment >3. Erica Schoenberger: Multinational Corporations and the Globalization >of the Economy >4. Harvey Brenner: Impact on Health and Mortality of Global Restructuring >5. Vicente Navarro: Employment and Unemployment in the U.S. and Europe >6. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly: Rethinking Gender in the Global Economy: >Latin America and Beyond >7. Howard Jackson and Baltimore BUILD: The Baltimore Living Wage Campaign >1. Send me an email reply (eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu) and tell me >which number(s) & name(s) you want, so I can prepare a copy. > Check is coming to you under separate cover. >My address is: Ellen Shaffer > 807 Arrington Drive > Silver Spring, MD 20901 > > Thanks so much. I haven't seen David in a number of years. -goetz gwolff@ucla.edu -or- goetzwolff@igc.apc.org (LaborNet) =================================================== Goetz Wolff --------------------------------------------------- UCLA MAIL ADDRESS: School of Public Policy & Social Research UCLA - 3250 Public Policy Building Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656 ..................................................... UCLA OFFICES & PHONE #'s @ Urban Planning 5367 Public Policy Building (310) 206-4285 / (310) 206-5566 (FAX) ..................................................... @ North American Integration and Development Center Suite 2381 Public Policy Building (310) 206-4609 / (310) 825-8574 (FAX) ---------------------------------------------------- OFF-CAMPUS OFFICE Resources for Employment & Econ. Development 1221 Olancha Drive Los Angeles, CA 90065 (213) 254-6369 / (213) 254-4405 (FAX) ==================================================== From abudak@alumni.ysu.edu Fri Oct 4 18:32:37 1996 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:28:17 -0400 From: Tony Budak Subject: Query: Community Organizing Case Studies To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu <---- Begin Forwarded Message ----> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:25:53 CDT Reply-To: H-Net/H-Urban Seminar on History of Community Organizing & From: Wendy Plotkin Subject: Query: Community Organizing Case Studies Posted by Sue Crawford Below please find a request from a student in one of my courses. He plans to conduct a comparative analysis of several case studies of political-oriented community development efforts for his Senior research project. I think that he may be having some trouble with the searches because it is not always clear from the title or the subject whether an article, book, or dissertation is a case study. I have forwarded mentions of case studies that I have seen on this list recently. I would appreciate any other help that you could give him. Thanks, Sue Crawford From dreier@oxy.edu Fri Oct 4 18:53:41 1996 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:53:37 -0700 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: dreier@oxy.edu Subject: Re: Query: Community Organizing Case Studies To Sue Crawford, Mark Warren last year completed a wonderful dissertation at Harvard on the IAF in Texas. A long paper about his study can be found on the WWW. Search under: http://www.cpn.org and look for a series of Harvard working papers, one of which is Warren's "Creating a Multi-Racial Democratic Community." Peter Dreier Occidental College > ><---- Begin Forwarded Message ----> >Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:25:53 CDT >Reply-To: H-Net/H-Urban Seminar on History of Community Organizing & > >From: Wendy Plotkin >Subject: Query: Community Organizing Case Studies > >Posted by Sue Crawford > >Below please find a request from a student in one of my courses. He >plans to conduct a comparative analysis of several case studies of >political-oriented community development efforts for his Senior >research project. I think that he may be having some trouble with the >searches because it is not always clear from the title or the subject >whether an article, book, or dissertation is a case study. > >I have forwarded mentions of case studies that I have seen on this list >recently. I would appreciate any other help that you could give him. > >Thanks, >Sue Crawford > > > > >I am trying to locate case studies of community organization projects >similar to and including those of the Industrial Areas Foundation for a >senior research project. I have already utilized ABC Pol Sci and >several of the First Search data bases and haven't had much success. I >would appreciate any help you could offer and will certainly post a >summary of my findings on the list. > >Thank you, >J. Steve Hittle > >jshittle@creighton.edu > > ><---- End Forwarded Message ----> > > > From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Sat Oct 5 22:29:49 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 21:34:37 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States: Conference Report Last June in Ottawa, there was a conference on Changes in Working Time sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A conference report is available on the world wide web at: 207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I will also be adding a link to the conference report to the TimeWork Web at: mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm I will forward summaries of the sessions to the above noted lists over the next several days, one at a time, to give list subscribers an opportunity to think about the issues raised by each session and respond to the analysis presented. In this message I will include the Conference Purpose and Context and the Conference Summary. Conference Purpose and Context and Conference Summary Session 1: Key Dimensions of Working Time- An Overview Session 2A: The Changing Hours of Work Session 2B: Women and the Distribution of Work Session 3A: Non-Standard and Contingent Work Session 3B: Private Sector Case Studies Session 4A: Working Time over the Life Cycle Session 4B: Part-Time and Over-Time Work Session 5: Worksharing Experience Session 6: Policy Panel Forwarded message below: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Purpose and Context This was an important international conference on working time issues. Its purpose was to draw together research on changes in the distribution of working time across several dimensions (daily or weekly hours of work, alternative work arrangements, and working time over the life-cycle) and to examine why these changes are occurring, assess the efficiency and equity implications of these changes, and discuss the role of public policy in affecting patterns of working time. Two conference volumes, based on the research papers submitted for the conference, will be published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (hopefully by year end). The two conference keynote speakers, the Honourable Alfonso Gagliano, Minister of Labour and Robert Theobald, Massey Lecturer, Fall 1996, put the working time issues into the broader public policy and social context in addressing the theme The Future of Work. Highlighting the importance of working time issues to the Government of Canada, Minister Gagliano pointed to HRDC's current development of a strategy for the Canadian workplace. He indicated that important elements of the department's work will include: modernizing the Canada Labour Code; accumulating a critical mass of information essential for defining a workplace strategy (this conference and the HRDC sponsored Survey of Work Arrangements - microdata file to be released later this summer - will contribute to our knowledge base); raising public awareness of the changing nature of work; and, as a major employer, showing leadership in the use of flexible work arrangements. Mr. Theobald stressed the need for new socioeconomic thinking and the need to move to a new industrial growth curve based on caring, new forms of work and new forms of identity. In the short to medium-term, he recommended that government tax and benefits policies be reviewed for neutrality with respect to hours of work and encouraged people, firms and communities to explore more flexible work patterns. Conference Summary The conference format was a series of concurrent presentations given primarily by specialists in labour economics. This report summarizes the papers by session topics and draws out the highlights from an HRDC perspective. --------------------------------------------------------- End forwarded message Regards, Tom Walker, knowware@mindlink.bc.ca, (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Mon Oct 7 00:22:51 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 23:27:49 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 1 The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 1: KEY DIMENSIONS OF WORKING TIME - AN OVERVIEW This session included the following presentations: The Changing Workweek: Trends in Weekly Hours of Work in Canada, 1976-1995 by Michael Sheridan, Deborah Sunter and Brent Diverty, Statistics Canada U.S. Trends in Hours by Phil Rones, U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics Earnings Inequality - Hours by Country by Richard Freeman, NBER, and Linda Bell, Haveford College More Work for Some, Less Work for Others: Working Hours, Collective Bargaining and Government Policy in the United States, France and Germany by Sam Rosenberg, Roosevelt University Hours Constraints: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications by Kevin Lang, Shulamit Kahn, Boston University ************************** SUMMARIES The Changing Workweek: Trends in Weekly Hours of Work in Canada, 1976-1995 by Michael Sheridan, Deborah Sunter and Brent Diverty, Statistics Canada ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE: Distribution of Employment by Actual Hours of Work 1976, 1987 and 1995 Percentage share of total employment 1976 1987 1995 1-14 4.875611 5.750719 6.110353 15-19 3.08071 3.54529 3.601004 20-29 7.401041 8.723537 9.367457 30-34 12.15406 12.16905 10.75839 35-39 15.59042 15.07208 14.79576 40 31.58132 27.15642 27.0029 41-49 9.803489 9.916334 9.880532 50 + 8.227584 9.98972 11.15456 Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, unpublished data ---------------------------------------------------------------- The perception of "no more 9-5" is shown to be "not quite as much 9-5" as the proportion of workers working short and long hours increases. Using Labour Force Survey data over the past 20 years, the authors analyse what appears at the aggregate level to be polarization (as suggested in the side chart), by industry and occupation to show a series of unidirectional shifts, either to short or to long hours depending on the industry or occupation. No one causal factor is found to explain why weekly hours are becoming more unevenly distributed. The data are, however, consistent with an increased reliance on a core of highly educated, experienced workers who are given longer work hours to avoid the costs of hiring and training and the on-going supplementary expenses incurred with each additional person on the payroll, increased performance expectations in the 1990s tight labour market prompting core employees to put in extra hours to stay afloat, and more peripheral unskilled workers which provide the benefits of flexibility and savings on fringe benefits, offsetting the costs of managing a part-time and perhaps temporary workforce. In addressing the issue of redistributing hours of work, the authors are not optimistic due to the different skill sets of the short and long hour workers and, to the extent that long hours are not renumerated, the impracticality of redistributing unpaid hours. This points to the importance of the contractual pay arrangement of workers (salary vs. hourly wage) in looking at the potential to redistribute work and income. Further information on paid and unpaid overtime will be available in the 1995 Survey of Work Arrangements. ************************** U.S. Trends in Hours by Phil Rones, U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics Phil Rones points out that hours of work touches on most labour market issues. Among them are the increased labour force participation of women who are now shifting to full-time, full-year employment; early retirement and a transition shift to shorter hours; and managers working longer hours to protect their jobs. His analysis is based on data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, which collects actual hours, rather than the usual hours which is used in Sheridan paper above. (The above chart, however, shows that the trends are the same whether one uses actual or usual hours worked.) Key findings include: the average hours distribution shifted from those working 40 hours and 41-48 hours to those working 49 plus hours in the 1980s, not the 1990s as is commonly presumed; long hours have increased in all major occupational groups for both men and women; the probability of working long hours increases with weekly earnings indicating that long hours are a characteristic of high paying jobs rather than the result of direct pay for more hours; year-round employment has increased causing annual hours to increase faster than weekly hours; and most of the increase in annual average hours of work is accounted for by the increase in the number of weeks worked in a year rather than the number of weekly hours worked. ************************** Earnings Inequality - Hours by Country by Richard Freeman, NBER, and Linda Bell, Haveford College This paper documents the fact that Americans, and to a lesser extent Canadians, have a strong work ethic, putting in more hours, and wanting to put in even more than employees in many other advanced countries. In trying to answer why Americans work long hours, the authors test the hypothesis that if the position of a worker in the earnings distribution in his market (either through the firm that employs him, promotions within that firm, or pay within a job grade in that firm) depends on his hours worked/work effort, greater inequality in pay within his job market will induce greater work effort. Using data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, they present calculations of the relation between inequality of pay and hours worked within occupation and industry job markets that suggest that inequality of pay contributes to hours worked in the U.S. In conclusion, the explanation given for the greater work effort in the U.S. is because putting in time and effort pays off and because it is costly not to, given the less generous U.S. unemployment insurance system relative to that in European countries. Thus, attention is drawn to international institutional differences in explaining hours of work differences. ************************** More Work for Some, Less Work for Others: Working Hours, Collective Bargaining and Government Policy in the United States, France and Germany by Sam Rosenberg, Roosevelt University The paper identifies working time trends in Germany, France, and the United States as well as the role of government and unions in influencing these trends. The experience of the two European countries indicates a high level of awareness and public concern over working time reduction and flexibility. Rules regarding employment protection, part-time and temporary labour, the length and flexibility of working time have been at the heart of the policy debate over job creation and competitiveness in Germany and France. European countries in general have pushed for and achieved shorter work weeks since the early 1980s. Initially, it was thought that working time reductions, or "work sharing", would be an effective policy tool for reducing unemployment. This view was strongly held by unions. However, the effectiveness of policies designed to address concerns over working time remain unclear. In fact, Rosenberg indicates that policies designed to shorten the work week or to increase work hour flexibility have created labour market rigidities which may actually raise the level of unemployment, regardless of policy intent. Such rigidities include higher wage rates, increased fixed costs per employee, increased use of overtime, and reduced utilization of capital. In the United States, working hours have grown in recent years while working time has become more flexible. Not only did the length of the average work week increase in the 1980s, but workers also received less time off for vacations and holidays. There has been little or no government regulation or union pressure to influence working time. Debates on the length of the work week had mostly fizzled out by the early 1980s. Rather, employers have had more or less free rein to implement increasingly flexible work patterns. Mr. Rosenberg does not draw any final conclusions from this comparison. Rather, he leaves us with questions as to whether the low-pay long hours approach of the United States will win out in terms of economic development over the more regulated approach for shorter and more flexible hours in the two European countries. ************************** Hours Constraints: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications by Kevin Lang, Shulamit Kahn, Boston University This paper focuses on hours constraints; i.e., why workers may be constrained to work more or less than they desire. The authors first present and analyse survey information relating to the identification of work hour constraints by workers in the United States and Canada. Then they relate this information to the labour market in an attempt to establish links between hours constraints and the functioning of the labour market. >From the survey information, we see that a significant proportion of workers (roughly 40% to 50%) in both Canada and the U.S. would like to change their hours of work. Of these, a majority tend to prefer an increase in work hours rather than a decline. In some cases the authors are quite critical of the survey data used to determine worker preferences. They point to such concerns as: - inconsistent responses to similar or related questions on hour reductions; - the wording of survey questions may lead to dubious results on workers wanting to work more or less hours (e.g. wanting to work more or less on a second job does not imply an overall desire to work more or less). The authors summarize three primary theories advanced in the literature that attempt to explain hours constraints. These theories relate to long-term contracting, models of wage/hour efficiency, and fixed-wage contracting. They then undertake to analyse the impact of mandated hours reductions in the context of a wage/hours model and contend that attempts to legally restrict the work week will increase the extent of multiple jobs in Canada and the U.S. Whatever theoretical model is assumed, there is also likely to be a change in the wages paid for jobs with different levels of required hours. Any further analysis of the effect of mandated hours restrictions must take these effects into account. The authors conclude that the case for mandating hours restrictions is not compelling. There is little evidence in both Canada and the U.S. that workers are interested in accepting less pay in return for more leisure. Rather, it would appear that any public appeal to shorter mandated hours is based on a short-sighted assumption that total wages per employee would not change. From vtait@library.berkeley.edu Mon Oct 7 10:52:42 1996 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:56:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Vanessa Tait To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: economic justice movement Dear Labor-rappers, I'm researching the economic justice movement in the U.S., which includes a wide variety of local, regional and national organizations dealing with community economic issues, and often as well, with issues of immigration and citizenship. I'm especially interested in coalition-building, multi-issue organizing, and in non-AFL-CIO groups that do labor organizing (such as Mujer Obrera, AIWA, the CSWA, etc.). I would very much appreciate being put in touch with anyone doing related work, or suggestions for particularly intriguing case studies. Thanks. Vanessa Tait PhD Candidate, Sociology UC Santa Cruz (510) 644-0256 (home) vtait@library.berkeley.edu From wkramer@ucla.edu Tue Oct 8 13:55:21 1996 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:42:41 -0700 To: wkramer@rho.ben2.ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: LAMAP Office Opening Oct 19 LAMAP Office Opening Saturday October 19th, 2-5 PM Join the victorious Guerrero tortilla delivery drivers, labor leaders, and community activists to celebrate the opening of the Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project's new office in Huntigton Park, California. Labor Journalist David Bacon's photography exhibit of Mexican workers will debut in Los Angeles at the opening. --------------------------------- William Kramer UCLA LAMAP Coordinator 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024 310-794-0698 (phone) 310-794-8017 (fax) wkramer@ucla.edu (email) ---------------------------------- From wkramer@ucla.edu Tue Oct 8 18:01:22 1996 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:50:27 -0700 To: wkramer@rho.ben2.ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: LAMAP Office Opening Oct 19 (Resending with the address) >LAMAP Office Opening >Saturday October 19th, 2-5 PM >3114 E Gage Avenue 213-585-4596 >Join the victorious Guerrero tortilla delivery drivers, labor leaders, and community activists to celebrate the opening of the Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project's new office in Huntigton Park, California. > >Labor Journalist David Bacon's photography exhibit of Mexican workers will debut in Los Angeles at the opening. --------------------------------- William Kramer UCLA LAMAP Coordinator 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024 310-794-0698 (phone) 310-794-8017 (fax) wkramer@ucla.edu (email) ---------------------------------- From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Wed Oct 9 11:26:18 1996 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 09:52:42 -0700 (PDT) To: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu, LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: ESSAY: WORKFARE, WELFARE, AND YALE Sender: meisenscher@igc.org >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:29:05 -0400 >From: PNEWS >To: UNITED >Subject: ESSAY: Workfare, Welfare, and Yale > >[*********PNEWS CONFERENCES************] >From: Edward Kent > >One of my students who has just started studies at Yale has sent along some >of the union literature which is quite persuasive (e.g. "The Strike at Yale: >a Community Crisis" which includes a number of personal statements by >long-time Yale workers). There is a peculiar parallel between the employment >policies that Yale is trying to reestablish -- part-time (semester long) >employment combined with welfare which was the pattern for approximately >one-third of Yale's workers in 1970 and Mayor Rudi Giuliani's alliance with >New York City's unions announced in today's New York Times in which it is >anticpated that as many as 100,000 will be on workfare/wellfare in the near >future with a possibility of a "few" being hired by the City into real jobs. > >I need not spell out the implications of this pattern. To me they are >unstable and one wants to say to our politicians, "Fish, or cut bait!" Hire >people and give them decent wages and benefits or admit that the system has >no place for willing workers. Already 20% of our Children in America are >growing up in poverty -- too many already! > >What follows is a union hand out sheet. Whither Yale? >============================================================================== >Why there's still a labor dispute at Yale > >Although Yale and its unions, Local 34 and Local 35, have agreed on many >issues, the two sides are far apart on the issue of subcontracting. Yale >wants the right to lay off university employees and replace thyem with low >wage subcontract employees. Many positions would be protected from layoff, >but as many as 500-600 employees would be subject to layoff and immediate >replacement. > >What Yale's proposals mean for workers in New Haven > >Yale would take modest but decent jobs -- a full-time, year-round custodial >or dining hall worker at Yale is paid about $22,000 a year -- and replace >them with low pay, seasonal jobs. We have asked Yale to guarantee a minimum >wage of $8 per hour for subcontract employees on campus. The University has >refused. Yale wants the right to pay poverty-level wanges to hundreds of >workers. > >Yale is the largest employer in greater New Have. After decades of >industrial decline, a job at Yale is virtually the only way out of poverty >for most inner-city residents. Yale wants to change that. Transforming >500-600 real jobs into seasonal employment at $5 or $6 an hour with no >health benefits changes New Haven for the worse. > >Yale's position is extreme and unjustified > >Yale has enjoyed extraordinary financial growth for more than a decade. Last >year endowment income increased at a dramatic 20%+ rate. There is no >financial justification for the University's effort to wring millions of >dollars out of its poorest workers. > >Yale's opposition to a fair minimum wage structure for subcontractor >employees is purely ideological, and completely misplaced. Similar minimum >wage proposals have been instituted throughout the United State, including a >positive, highly visible program implementd by Yale Trustee and Baltimore >Mayor Kurt Schmoke. > >Yale puts education and research in jeopardy for this?! > >Our unions have made many compromises to achieve an agreement with Yale. We >have expanded Yale's subcontracting rights. We have agreed to insurance and >wage changes that will save Yale over $100 million in the coming years. But >we can't agree to sentence hundreds of our neighbors to poverty for no good >reason. > >This year labor strife on campus will continue and -- given that Yale's >position takes aim directly at the New Haven community -- expand into the >neghborhoods around campus. Already New Haven's Mayor John DeStefano, and >our U.S. Representative, Rosa DeLauro, have denounced Yale's stance. How >much more dislocation and confrontation will occur before the university >administration comes to its senses and treats New Haven workers with respect? > > Locals 34, 35 and GESO. Federation of University Employees > 424 College Strett. New Haven, CT 06511 . (203)624-5161 > >============================================================================== >If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, I am sure he would be there >supporting our unions. In his last months before his murder in 1968 he had >redirected his concerns to fair economic distributions of wealth in America. >We still have a way to go to realize his dream -- at Yale, in New York >City, and elsewhere. > >Ed Kent ekent@brooklyn.cuny.edu > > > From carre@radmail.harvard.edu Wed Oct 9 12:36:01 1996 Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 14:27:54 -0400 From: Francoise Carre To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: ordering tapes of presentations. Through the email network, I got a copy of a message sent to you ordering some tapes. Two of them would be useful for our research here. How can I order the following two tapes, what is the cost and your preferred method of payment? Harvey Brenner, Impact on Health and Mortality of Global Restructuring Howard Jackson and Baltimore BUILD: The Baltimore Living Wage Campaign Thanks. Francoise Carre Research Program Director Radcliffe Public Policy Institute 69 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA 02138 From wkramer@ucla.edu Wed Oct 9 19:44:54 1996 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:24:09 -0700 To: wkramer@rho.ben2.ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: job posting >IMMEDIATE JOB OPENINGS: > > >LEADS AND ORGANIZERS > > > > >LAMAP is a multi-union area wide community based project that is >organizing the largely Latino immigrant manufacturing work force in the >Alameda Corridor of the Los Angeles basin. LAMAP combines extensive >research and intelligence gathering with front loaded community involvement >and decision making that enables innovative strategies for successful >organizing. > >LAMAP now has immediate openings for experienced lead organizers and >field organizers. Bilingualism in written and spoken Spanish is a must. >Experience in labor and community organizing is desired but not required. > >Competitive pay and benefits package. > >To apply contact Peter Olney, Director at 1-213-243-8582 or send a >cover letter and resume to LAMAP, PO Box 951, Culver City, >California 90232 or email at rom@igc.apc.org. > >9/25/96 > > From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Wed Oct 9 19:54:25 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 18:59:09 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 2A The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 2A: THE CHANGING HOURS OF WORK This session included the following presentations: Worktime and Numerical Flexibility in U.S. Manufacturing: Emerging Dynamic Relationships and Likely Causes by Stewart Glosser, University of Wisconsin, and Lonnie Golden, Penn State University Utilization of Human Capital in the U.S., 1975-1992: Patterns of Forgone Potential Earnings Among Prime Age Males by Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin, and Larry Buron, Abt Associates Supply of Hours per Day and Days Per Week: Evidence from the Canadian Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS) by Richard Mueller, University of Texas Working Time, Wages and Earnings Inequality in Canada, 1981-1993 by Garnet Picot, Statistics Canada ************************* Worktime and Numerical Flexibility in U.S. Manufacturing: Emerging Dynamic Relationships and Likely Causes by Stewart Glosser, University of Wisconsin, and Lonnie Golden, Penn State University This paper investigates the extent to which adjustment patterns in average weekly hours and employment levels in 16, 2-digit manufacturing industries have changed since 1979 and why. Using a vector autoregression (VAR) system to model the dynamic interrelationship between output, average work hours and employment variables, the authors find that, since a structural break in 1979, employers tend to increase hours rather than hiring when adjusting labour input upward. The potential explanatory factors explored are product market competition, an increased demand for flexibility and quasi-fixed labour costs (hiring and training costs and increased employee benefit expenses). They conclude that stiffer cost competition has heightened attention to various fixed costs of employment which has led most industries in the post 1979 period to reduce the degree of hiring following a spurt in output demand. ************************* Utilization of Human Capital in the U.S., 1975-1992: Patterns of Forgone Potential Earnings Among Prime Age Males by Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin, and Larry Buron, Abt Associates The authors develop two new labour utilization indicators to trace the extent to which the human capital of civilian, non-student, 18-64 year-old males (and sub-groups) are increasingly underutilised over the 1975 to 1992 period. The first indicator, Forgone Potential Earnings (FPE), is calculated as the gap between the norm of full-time, full-year work and the hours a person actually works, weighted by his predicted hourly wage measured in 1993 dollars. The second indicator, Capacity Utilization Rate (CUR), is the ratio of the individuals actual earnings (hours times the predicted wage) to the level of his full capacity, or potential, earnings. Overall, the time related patterns in both FPE and CUR indicate that the utilization of the stock of male human capital has been eroding over the 1975 to 1992 period. This downward trend is concentrated among very young and old workers, those with the lowest education levels and non-whites. Trends in the reasons given for the failure to fully utilize human capital were also examined. In the aggregate, voluntary reasons (retirement, voluntary part-time work, and housework) exhibit an upward trend while the trend in involuntary reasons (work not available, discouraged from seeking work, and illness) is negative despite the increase in the discouraged worker component. Individuals with the lowest education, particularly minorities with the lowest education have experienced the largest decrease in labour market opportunities. The oldest working-age males and young minority dropouts have had the largest relative increases in voluntary Forgone Potential Earnings. These new indicators developed provide a more comprehensive measure of labour market slack and its cost than the standard unemployment rate. However, the authors do not explore any policy implications of these new measures. ************************* Supply of Hours per Day and Days Per Week: Evidence from the Canadian Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS) by Richard Mueller, University of Texas This paper investigates the days per week and hours per day decisions of workers. In recognizing that the fixed costs associated with labour supply decisions such as child care and transportations costs may vary by hours and days, Mueller formulates and tests an expanded labour supply model for both males and females/job stayers and job changers using data from the Labour Market Activity Survey. Their results suggest that flexibility in days and hours are important, but also that demand-side rigidities exist in the Canadian labour market. The results are also supportive of the hypothesis that the daily fixed costs of employment are relatively higher than the hourly costs. ************************* Working Time, Wages and Earnings Inequality in Canada, 1981-1993 by Garnet Picot, Statistics Canada This paper studies the impact of the polarization of working time on earnings inequality among male workers. It extends earlier work using data from the new Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for 1993, determines whether changes in weeks worked per year or hours per week play the major role in the changing distribution of working time, and assesses to what extent changes in hours worked are associated with the declining real and relative earnings of young workers, and to what extent the distribution of jobs by hourly wage rate has in fact changed. The key finding is that the significant increase in annual earnings inequality and polarization among male workers in the 1980s appears to be largely associated with an increase in the polarization of hours worked. Changes in the distribution of hourly wages played a much smaller role. Both a polarization of weeks worked and, more importantly, hours worked per week contributed to this phenomenon. The period of the most rapid increase in earnings inequality appears to be during and following the 1981-1982 recession, not in the more recent period. Although changing hours appears to play an important role in rising inequality, in general, it does not explain the declining annual earnings among young male workers. Here, declining real and relative hourly wages, rather than any change in relative hours worked, explains the decline in annual earnings. The author suggests that there is real wage adjustment taking place in the Canadian economy and that it is concentrated among young workers. From lastl@merkland.rgu.ac.uk Thu Oct 10 02:28:36 1996 Thu, 10 Oct 96 9:10:44 GMT+1 From: "THOMAS LANGE" Organization: The Robert Gordon University To: econ-soc-devt@mailbase.ac.uk, esa-all@mailbase.ac.uk, critical-management@mailbase.ac.uk, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu, cti-econ@mailbase.ac.uk, social-policy@mailbase.ac.uk, business-information-all@mailbase.ac.uk, management-research@mailbase.ac.uk, ipe@c Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:10:29 GMT Subject: International conference on 'School-to-Work Transitions' industrial-relations-research@mailbase.ac.uk, rip-pol-econ@mailbase.ac.uk, social-theory@mailbase.ac.uk, econometric-research@mailbase.ac.uk, econ-business-educators@mailbase.ac.uk 2nd Call for Papers/Conference Announcement Conference Announcement --------------------------------- The International Labour Markets Research Network (ILM) in association with the School of Public Administration and Law, the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen announces its second international conference, to be held on 16-17 June 1997 in Aberdeen/Scotland. The focus of this 2-day event will be on school-to-work transitions, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The conference will help stimulate thinking around the complexity of youth labour markets and bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers. ILM welcomes papers from a wide range of social science disciplines. Keynote speakers will include the leading American economist David Banchflower who will report on a major NBER study on 'hard-to-employ' youth across countries. The conference fee is stlg110.00 (stlg95 for research students and ILM members only), including the conference proceedings, light refreshments and dinner (Monday only). Early registration is recommended as places are limited. Expressions of interest in participating at the conference should be sent to: The International Labour Markets Research Network (ILM) ILM Conference 1997 The Robert Gordon University School of Public Administration and Law 352 King Street Aberdeen AB9 2TQ United Kingdom Fax: (44+) 1224 262929 E-mail: t.lange@rgu.ac.uk Call for Papers ------------------- If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please send an abstract not exceeding 500 words to the conference organiser at the above address. The deadline for abstracts will be 7 February 1997 though earlier submissions would be very much appreciated. If accepted, full papers will be required by 4 April 1997. Papers with a comparative dimension a particularly welcome, either across countries or over time. Papers should fall broadly into one of the following subject areas: * Post-compulsory education and training * Youth unemployment * Educational background and labour market destinations * The impact of trade unions on the youth labour market * Demographic developments * Policy reviews and appraisals From dreier@oxy.edu Thu Oct 10 10:48:16 1996 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:48:13 -0700 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: dreier@oxy.edu Subject: Re: International conference on 'School-to-Work Transitions' Rich, FYI, Peter > 2nd Call for Papers/Conference Announcement > > >Conference Announcement >--------------------------------- > >The International Labour Markets Research Network (ILM) in >association with the School of Public Administration and Law, the >Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen announces its second international >conference, to be held on 16-17 June 1997 in Aberdeen/Scotland. The >focus of this 2-day event will be on school-to-work transitions, both from a >theoretical and empirical perspective. The conference will help >stimulate thinking around the complexity of youth labour markets and bring >together academics, practitioners and policy-makers. ILM welcomes >papers from a wide range of social science disciplines. Keynote speakers >will include the leading American economist David Banchflower who >will report on a major NBER study on 'hard-to-employ' youth across >countries. > >The conference fee is stlg110.00 (stlg95 for research students and ILM >members only), including the conference proceedings, light refreshments >and dinner (Monday only). Early registration is recommended as places >are limited. Expressions of interest in participating at the conference >should be sent to: > >The International Labour Markets Research Network (ILM) >ILM Conference 1997 >The Robert Gordon University >School of Public Administration and Law >352 King Street >Aberdeen AB9 2TQ >United Kingdom > >Fax: (44+) 1224 262929 >E-mail: t.lange@rgu.ac.uk > > >Call for Papers >------------------- > >If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please send >an abstract not exceeding 500 words to the conference organiser at >the above address. The deadline for abstracts will be 7 February >1997 though earlier submissions would be very much appreciated. >If accepted, full papers will be required by 4 April 1997. Papers >with a comparative dimension a particularly welcome, either across >countries or over time. Papers should fall broadly into one of the following >subject areas: > >* Post-compulsory education and training >* Youth unemployment >* Educational background and labour market destinations >* The impact of trade unions on the youth labour market >* Demographic developments >* Policy reviews and appraisals > > > From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Mon Oct 14 09:27:48 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:32:42 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 2B The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 2B: WOMEN AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK This session addressed specific issues related to women's working time: why employment rates of women with young children has increased; why women prefer home- based work; how health insurance affects labour market participation decisions. The papers did not examine the structural implications of the labour market changes or whether employee demand for particular types of work patterns has increased. These issues are of particular significance in examining the structural determinants of particular work patterns (lack of affordable quality child care makes family home day care the only employment option, for example) or pursuing possible public policy responses to these changes (increased coverage of labour legislation, for example). This session included the following presentations: The Effects of U.S. and Canadian Health Insurance and Disability Policies on Maternal Labour Supply by Janet Hunt-McCool, Georgetown University Medical Centre The Employment Patterns of Women Following Childbirth by William Even, Miami University, and David Macpherson, Florida State University Work Site and Work Hours: The Labour Force Flexibility of Home-Based Women Workers by Linda Edwards and Elizabeth Field-Hendry, City University of New York Married Self-Employment and Schedule Flexibility: Evidence for the U.S. from SIPP by Theresa Devine, American Bar Foundation ************************* The Effects of U.S. and Canadian Health Insurance and Disability Policies on Maternal Labour Supply by Janet Hunt-McCool, Georgetown University Medical Centre Janet Hunt-McCool examined the relationship between health care systems and labour market participation of mothers of children with disabilities or chronic conditions. Given Canada's health care system, it is used as a comparator, while much of the analysis is focused on the U.S. experience. In the U.S., an individual is covered by Medicaid only at very low income levels. Otherwise, health care coverage is available through employers. Predictably, mothers of chronically disabled children are likely to be employed full-time in the labour force (a prerequisite of health care coverage) or not at all (in which case they would have access to Medicaid). Married women were found to have somewhat more flexibility given the possibility of health coverage through their spouses employment. The paper suggests lack of a base universal level of medical insurance serves to "force the hand" of mothers with disabled or chronic condition children where one would imagine an already high degree of work/family stress/conflict. ************************* The Employment Patterns of Women Following Childbirth by William Even, Miami University, and David Macpherson, Florida State University Using U.S. Current Population Survey data, the authors found that women's exit rates following child rearing have decreased significantly (especially for mothers of young children). A number of variables were analysed to explain why such a change has occurred; none were found to be significant predictors of the change in exit rates. Finally, using wage analysis, it was found that the effect of children on wages diminished over time. In pursuing the issue of why exit rates have decreased, the authors propose changing social norms or rise in divorce rates may be explanatory factors. The discussants as well as some members of the audience expanded on the possible reasons for the decrease. Some of the factors were: personal reasons (economic independence, how we tend to identify ourselves with our paid work); workplace policies/legislative impact (established leaves for child care, family friendly work place policies); changes in socio-economic values; economic necessity (two incomes necessary to make ends meet); and pace of technological change (changes in technology and in specialty areas render qualifications obsolete quickly if you do not remain connected to the labour market). ************************* Work Site and Work Hours: The Labour Force Flexibility of Home-Based Women Workers by Linda Edwards and Elizabeth Field-Hendry, City University of New York To examine home-based work, the authors used the 1990 U.S. census data to isolate the workers who responded to the typical journey to work question with "worked at home". Home-based workers were more likely to be self-employed, rural, married with spouse, have a young child, be disabled, have a spouse who is home-based, and less likely to be black. Unfortunately, the paper does not differentiate between different types of home-based work and their implications. While home-based work may be particularly useful for indeterminate employees of large or medium sized firms (i.e., telework) where the employee does not lose access to pension and benefit entitlements or to high skill professionals who may demand high wages for their work, work at the opposite end of the spectrum (undervalued, low paid work) presents very different outcomes. For example, one of the discussants (Nora Spinks, Canadian Work and Family Services) raised the issue that 40% of female home-based workers were running a family home day care. This group of workers is likely to have one of the lowest degrees of control over work hours given their need to straddle their employers work hours. Further, with those in the labour force working longer and longer hours, those providing child care must match those hours plus commuting time. While technology is creating a variety of opportunities for how we "work", this paper raises more issues than it addresses in what is not investigated by the research. ************************* Married Self-Employment and Schedule Flexibility: Evidence for the U.S. from SIPP by Theresa Devine, American Bar Foundation Theresa Devine will examine (the paper is not yet complete) the increase in self- employment particularly of women. In her discussion of preliminary findings, she discovered that self-employed women were more likely to be married with a spouse present and tended to earn less than other women (as opposed to men who earn more if they are self-employed). From rross@clarku.edu Tue Oct 15 09:28:55 1996 15 Oct 1996 11:27:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:27:57 -0400 From: "Robert J.S. Bob Ross" Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd)] To: Allen Young , "Apfel, Jeff" , Arno Tausch , Carl Dassbach (Carl H.A. Dassbach), Charlie Crabb , "chriscd@jhu.edu" , "Daniel D. Derezinski" <102766.420@CompuServe.COM>, David Wellman <" wellman"@cats.ucsc.edu>, Dorothy Burlage , Edna Boncich , epapadakis@cwws.bssc.org, ellen Rosen , Eric Foner , fpimente@email.gc.cuny.edu, Gabriel Ross , "Gamson, Bill" , "Gamson, Josh" , "GERSTENFELD, Sue" , Harry Grill , "Hedges, Inez" , "JAMES W. RUSSELL" , Jim Ball , joshua.gamson@yale.edu, Karen McCormack , Labor List , lahammond@ucdavis.edu, lawyerlen@aol.com, levenson , Linda Irenegreene , Mark Durgee , Mary Tassone , Mike Klonsky , Paul.Lauter@mail.cc.trincoll.edu, Progressive Sociology Network , Rachel Ross , Rebbecca Bernstein , Rebecca Kirszner , Richard Rothstein , Robert Pardun and Helen Garvy , rclaire@alphacom.net, Levenson@tsa.com, Thuy Pham , Todd Gitlin , World Systems Network , Allen Young , David Wellman <" wellman"@cats.ucsc.edu>, "JAMES W. RUSSELL" , Laura Hammond , Mike Klonsky , Paul Lauter , Robert Pardun and Helen Garvy , Todd Gitlin , Allen Young , lahammond@ucdavis.edu, Paul.Lauter@mail.cc.trincoll.edu, Mark Durgee , Mary Tassone , Rebbecca Bernstein , Rebecca Kirszner , Thuy Pham , Progressive Sociology Network , World Systems Network Organization: Prof. and Chair of Sociology, Clark University This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- Robert J. S. Ross 508 793 7243 Professor and Chair of Sociology fax: 508 793 8816 Clark University Rross@vax.clarku.edu 950 Main Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 Return-path: 14 Oct 1996 16:16:45 -0500 (EST) by ogandalf.rutgers.edu (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq+grosshack/8.6.12) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:13:23 +0000 From: m.edwards@ucl.ac.uk (Michael Edwards) Subject: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd) To: comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu, ucyldar@ucl.ac.uk, SACMAN@araxp.polito.it, ucft653@ucl.ac.uk, sophie.watson@bristol.ac.uk, markstaton@cix.compulink.co.uk, sdecorte@vub.ac.be, steve@tufpark.demon.co.uk, root@rigopoulos.ath.forthnet.gr (A. Rigopoulos), Monika Teigel , Monika Teigel , TOOZE@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de, patrick.troy@anu.edu.au (Patrick Troy), g.sinyard@ucl.ac.uk, tcrnjae@ucl.ac.uk (Jennifer Anne Elliott), Kris Olds , Wouter Vervaat <121S@stud.frw.uva.nl>, wolff@geo.umnw.ethz.ch, pwood@geography.ucl.ac.uk, Yonca Boyaci , Jian.Zhu@arch.utas.edu.au >Delivery-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:15:37 +0100 >X-Sender: bertol@pop.frw.ruu.nl >Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:13:03 +0200 >To: C.Cresto-Dina@agora.stm.it, BERTOLIN@knoware.nl, >76501.2573@compuserve.com, > DNiemeijer@rcl.wau.nl, lisker@vt.edu, folke@regplan.kth.se, > Gi.Ferrero@agora.stm.it, bert@geo.vu.nl, pinato@ph.unito.it, > J.CHEAZ@CGNET.COM, maplute@digicolor.lognet.it, M.Cremaschi@agora.stm.it, > 011099@newschool.edu, 100642.2345@compuserve.com, MARVI@araxp.polito.it, > M.Robiglio@agora.stm.it, BERTOLINI@to.infn.it, mazzucato@pppl.gov, > m.edwards@ucl.ac.uk, svnmch01@cidoc.iuav.unive.it, > 100603.3446@compuserve.com, nethur@frw.ruu.nl, dott@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it, > ltt@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it, Enzo.Bertolini@jet.uk, balzak@iol.it, > wolff@geo.umnw.ethz.ch, S.Czerski@ubp.ruu.nl, sdcorte@vnet3.vub.ac.be, > chiara@uts.it, janin@aosta.gvo.it, vmazzucato@rcl.wau.nl, > fujita@leland.stanford.edu >From: "l.bertolini" >Subject: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd) > >>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:51:17 GMT >>To: l.bertolini@frw.ruu.nl >>From: c.cresto-dina@agora.stm.it (Carlo Cresto-Dina) >>Subject: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd) >> >> >>>Subject: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! >>> >>>Hello, everyone! This message is extremely important. It is about a >>>very highly intelligent virus that is being spread nationwide called >>>"Good Times". Once you have read this message, please forward to >>>anyone you care about. >>>Thanks. >>> >>>SUBJECT: [Very Important !!! ] >>> >>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If >>>you receive an email message with the subject line "Good Times", >>>DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the >>>messages below. >>> >>>Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times" >>>nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD >>>THE FILE! It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating >>>anything on it. Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone >>>you care about. >>> >>>The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of >>>major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a >>>new computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA >>>ON LINE that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other >>>more well-known >>>viruses such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in >>>comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a warped >>>mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the >>>fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be >>>infected. It can be spread through the existing email systems of the >>>Internet. >>> >>>Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If >>>the computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be >>>destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor >>>will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can >>>severely damage the processor if left running that way too long. >>> >>>Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is >>>happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means >>>of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always >>>travels to new computers the same way in a text email message with the >>>subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the >>>file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading >>>the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" >>>mainline program to initialize and execute. >>> >>>The program is highly intelligent- it will send copies of itself >>>to everyone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail file or >>>a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash >>>the computer it is running on. >>> >>>The bottom line is: - if you receive a file with the subject line >>>"Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it" Rest assured >>>that whoever' name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the >>>virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat >>>to the Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money. >>> >>>Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? >> >> >> >> >Dr. L. Bertolini > >Department of Applied Geography and Planning >Faculty of Geographical Sciences >Universiteit Utrecht >Po Box 80115 >3508 TC Utrecht >The Netherlands > >tel (31) 30 2534529/2531399 >fax (31) 30 2540604 > > >*************************************************************************8 > > Michael Edwards The Bartlett University College London 22 Gordon Street London WC1H 0QB UK tel +44 171 380 7777 ext 4874 or (secs) 380 7501 fax 380 7502 (home in emergencies +44 181 809 1085 or - holidays - +44 1886 821 680) PLEASE: If you send attached files save them first from your word processor in MS Word 5 (or earlier) not 6 as mine can't translate Word 6. Thanks. (Plain text / many graphics / DOS WordPerfect 5 / Excel and EndNote work OK too.) From rross@clarku.edu Tue Oct 15 09:34:39 1996 15 Oct 1996 11:29:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:29:48 -0400 From: "Robert J.S. Bob Ross" Subject: [Fwd: IGNORE Re: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd)] To: Allen Young , "Apfel, Jeff" , Arno Tausch , Carl Dassbach (Carl H.A. Dassbach), Charlie Crabb , "chriscd@jhu.edu" , "Daniel D. Derezinski" <102766.420@CompuServe.COM>, David Wellman <" wellman"@cats.ucsc.edu>, Dorothy Burlage , Edna Boncich , epapadakis@cwws.bssc.org, ellen Rosen , Eric Foner , fpimente@email.gc.cuny.edu, Gabriel Ross , "Gamson, Bill" , "Gamson, Josh" , "GERSTENFELD, Sue" , Harry Grill , "Hedges, Inez" , "JAMES W. RUSSELL" , Jim Ball , joshua.gamson@yale.edu, Karen McCormack , Labor List , lahammond@ucdavis.edu, lawyerlen@aol.com, levenson , Linda Irenegreene , Mark Durgee , Mary Tassone , Mike Klonsky , Paul.Lauter@mail.cc.trincoll.edu, Progressive Sociology Network , Rachel Ross , Rebbecca Bernstein , Rebecca Kirszner , Richard Rothstein , Robert Pardun and Helen Garvy , rclaire@alphacom.net, Levenson@tsa.com, Thuy Pham , Todd Gitlin , World Systems Network , Allen Young , David Wellman <" wellman"@cats.ucsc.edu>, "JAMES W. RUSSELL" , Laura Hammond , Mike Klonsky , Paul Lauter , Robert Pardun and Helen Garvy , Todd Gitlin , Allen Young , lahammond@ucdavis.edu, Paul.Lauter@mail.cc.trincoll.edu, Mark Durgee , Mary Tassone , Rebbecca Bernstein , Rebecca Kirszner , Thuy Pham Organization: Prof. and Chair of Sociology, Clark University This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------752178914932 -- Robert J. S. Ross 508 793 7243 Professor and Chair of Sociology fax: 508 793 8816 Clark University Rross@vax.clarku.edu 950 Main Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 --------------752178914932 Return-path: 14 Oct 1996 23:37:54 -0500 (EST) (root@bebop.chass.utoronto.ca [128.100.160.4]) by ogandalf.rutgers.edu (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq+grosshack/8.6.12) (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042/930416.SGI) id XAA00267; Mon, Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:34:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Wellman Subject: IGNORE Re: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd) To: Michael Edwards Prof Edwards, The Good Times virus hoax has been going around email for 7 years. Now, I seen that it has broken out in email. It is a PHONY. This is the 18th warning I've received in 7 years. I've seen federal documentation that it doesn't exist. The "next Wednesday" warning has been given out for the past 7 years - at least. You can't get a virus from plain-ASCII email. Please forward this message to all the people you alarmed. Please also wait for a bit more public confirmation before you send out such a warning again. If you think about it, the hoax is the virus - taking up lots of time & scaring lots of people. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Barry Wellman wellman@chass.utoronto.ca 8-) Professor of Sociology Centre for Urban and Community Studies Univ. of Toronto 455 Spadina Ave. Toronto, Canada M5S 2G8 tel: +1-416-978-3930 fax: +1-416-978-7162 ------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Michael Edwards wrote: > >Delivery-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:15:37 +0100 > >X-Sender: bertol@pop.frw.ruu.nl > >Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:13:03 +0200 > >To: C.Cresto-Dina@agora.stm.it, BERTOLIN@knoware.nl, > >76501.2573@compuserve.com, > > DNiemeijer@rcl.wau.nl, lisker@vt.edu, folke@regplan.kth.se, > > Gi.Ferrero@agora.stm.it, bert@geo.vu.nl, pinato@ph.unito.it, > > J.CHEAZ@CGNET.COM, maplute@digicolor.lognet.it, M.Cremaschi@agora.stm.it, > > 011099@newschool.edu, 100642.2345@compuserve.com, MARVI@araxp.polito.it, > > M.Robiglio@agora.stm.it, BERTOLINI@to.infn.it, mazzucato@pppl.gov, > > m.edwards@ucl.ac.uk, svnmch01@cidoc.iuav.unive.it, > > 100603.3446@compuserve.com, nethur@frw.ruu.nl, dott@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it, > > ltt@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it, Enzo.Bertolini@jet.uk, balzak@iol.it, > > wolff@geo.umnw.ethz.ch, S.Czerski@ubp.ruu.nl, sdcorte@vnet3.vub.ac.be, > > chiara@uts.it, janin@aosta.gvo.it, vmazzucato@rcl.wau.nl, > > fujita@leland.stanford.edu > >From: "l.bertolini" > >Subject: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd) > > > >>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:51:17 GMT > >>To: l.bertolini@frw.ruu.nl > >>From: c.cresto-dina@agora.stm.it (Carlo Cresto-Dina) > >>Subject: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd) > >> > >> > >>>Subject: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! > >>> > >>>Hello, everyone! This message is extremely important. It is about a > >>>very highly intelligent virus that is being spread nationwide called > >>>"Good Times". Once you have read this message, please forward to > >>>anyone you care about. > >>>Thanks. > >>> > >>>SUBJECT: [Very Important !!! ] > >>> > >>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If > >>>you receive an email message with the subject line "Good Times", > >>>DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the > >>>messages below. > >>> > >>>Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times" > >>>nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD > >>>THE FILE! It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating > >>>anything on it. Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone > >>>you care about. > >>> > >>>The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of > >>>major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a > >>>new computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA > >>>ON LINE that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other > >>>more well-known > >>>viruses such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in > >>>comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a warped > >>>mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the > >>>fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be > >>>infected. It can be spread through the existing email systems of the > >>>Internet. > >>> > >>>Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If > >>>the computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be > >>>destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor > >>>will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can > >>>severely damage the processor if left running that way too long. > >>> > >>>Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is > >>>happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means > >>>of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always > >>>travels to new computers the same way in a text email message with the > >>>subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the > >>>file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading > >>>the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" > >>>mainline program to initialize and execute. > >>> > >>>The program is highly intelligent- it will send copies of itself > >>>to everyone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail file or > >>>a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash > >>>the computer it is running on. > >>> > >>>The bottom line is: - if you receive a file with the subject line > >>>"Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it" Rest assured > >>>that whoever' name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the > >>>virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat > >>>to the Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money. > >>> > >>>Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >Dr. L. Bertolini > > > >Department of Applied Geography and Planning > >Faculty of Geographical Sciences > >Universiteit Utrecht > >Po Box 80115 > >3508 TC Utrecht > >The Netherlands > > > >tel (31) 30 2534529/2531399 > >fax (31) 30 2540604 > > > > > >*************************************************************************8 > > > > > > Michael Edwards > The Bartlett > University College London > 22 Gordon Street > London WC1H 0QB UK > tel +44 171 380 7777 ext 4874 or (secs) 380 7501 > fax 380 7502 > (home in emergencies +44 181 809 1085 or - holidays - +44 1886 821 680) > PLEASE: If you send attached files save them first from your word > processor in MS Word 5 (or earlier) not 6 as mine can't translate Word 6. > Thanks. > (Plain text / many graphics / DOS WordPerfect 5 / Excel and EndNote work OK > too.) > > --------------752178914932-- From jhurd@bridge.net Tue Oct 15 09:55:28 1996 From: jhurd@bridge.net Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:45:09 -0400 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Warning : Dangerous Virus loose! -Forwarded -Forwarded (fwd)] The Goodtimes virus is a hoax. |____________JIM HURD______________| * ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~jhurd * (305) 663-0856 |\|/| jhurd@bridge.net |Coral Gables |\|/| FL | From wkramer@ucla.edu Wed Oct 16 00:08:39 1996 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:02:38 -0700 To: wkramer@rho.ben2.ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: Fernando Gapasin Reception Friday 9:30 Here is an event I encourage people to check out: Fernando Gapasin Friday October 18 9:30 to 11:00 AM 3232 Campbell Hall Refreshments will be served. Gapasin is an Assistant Professor at Penn State in Labor Studies, Asian American Studies and Chicano Studies. He was the former Secretary Treasurer of the Santa Clara Labor Council. He is a candidate for a labor coordinator position at the UCLA Labor Center. --------------------------------- William Kramer UCLA LAMAP Coordinator 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024 310-794-0698 (phone) 310-794-8017 (fax) wkramer@ucla.edu (email) ---------------------------------- From delgado@orion.oac.uci.edu Wed Oct 16 10:47:42 1996 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:47:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Hector Delgado To: William Kramer Subject: Re: Fernando Gapasin Reception Friday 9:30 William - It was a pleasure talking with you. Thank you for your time and materials. I hope to be in touch soon, and may very well attend this presentation by Fernando Gapasin. Is this a new position or is he replacing someone? If he's replacing someone, who is it and where is s/he going? Take care. Hector On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, William Kramer wrote: > Here is an event I encourage people to check out: > > Fernando Gapasin > Friday October 18 > 9:30 to 11:00 AM > 3232 Campbell Hall > > Refreshments will be served. > > Gapasin is an Assistant Professor at Penn State in Labor Studies, Asian > American Studies and Chicano Studies. He was the former Secretary Treasurer > of the Santa Clara Labor Council. He is a candidate for a labor coordinator > position at the UCLA Labor Center. > > > > --------------------------------- > William Kramer > UCLA LAMAP Coordinator > 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor > Los Angeles, CA 90024 > > 310-794-0698 (phone) > 310-794-8017 (fax) > wkramer@ucla.edu (email) > ---------------------------------- > > > From sgobbi@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it Wed Oct 16 10:57:39 1996 From: sgobbi@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:59:39 +0100 Received-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:59:39 +0100 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Fernando Gapasin Reception Friday 9:30 And what about people who know nothing about William, Hector or even Fernando Gapasin? Fra >William - > >It was a pleasure talking with you. Thank you for your time and >materials. I hope to be in touch soon, and may very well attend this >presentation by Fernando Gapasin. Is this a new position or is he >replacing someone? If he's replacing someone, who is it and where is s/he >going? > >Take care. Hector > >On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, William Kramer wrote: > >> Here is an event I encourage people to check out: >> >> Fernando Gapasin >> Friday October 18 >> 9:30 to 11:00 AM >> 3232 Campbell Hall >> >> Refreshments will be served. >> >> Gapasin is an Assistant Professor at Penn State in Labor Studies, Asian >> American Studies and Chicano Studies. He was the former Secretary Treasurer >> of the Santa Clara Labor Council. He is a candidate for a labor coordinator >> position at the UCLA Labor Center. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> William Kramer >> UCLA LAMAP Coordinator >> 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor >> Los Angeles, CA 90024 >> >> 310-794-0698 (phone) >> 310-794-8017 (fax) >> wkramer@ucla.edu (email) >> ---------------------------------- >> >> >> > > > From delgado@orion.oac.uci.edu Wed Oct 16 14:47:10 1996 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:47:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Hector Delgado To: sgobbi@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it Subject: Re: Fernando Gapasin Reception Friday 9:30 Sorry FRA The message was to William Kramer but mistakenly was sent to LABOR-RAP. Hector L. Delgado On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 sgobbi@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it wrote: > And what about people who know nothing about William, Hector or even > Fernando Gapasin? > > Fra > > > >William - > > > >It was a pleasure talking with you. Thank you for your time and > >materials. I hope to be in touch soon, and may very well attend this > >presentation by Fernando Gapasin. Is this a new position or is he > >replacing someone? If he's replacing someone, who is it and where is s/he > >going? > > > >Take care. Hector > > > >On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, William Kramer wrote: > > > >> Here is an event I encourage people to check out: > >> > >> Fernando Gapasin > >> Friday October 18 > >> 9:30 to 11:00 AM > >> 3232 Campbell Hall > >> > >> Refreshments will be served. > >> > >> Gapasin is an Assistant Professor at Penn State in Labor Studies, Asian > >> American Studies and Chicano Studies. He was the former Secretary Treasurer > >> of the Santa Clara Labor Council. He is a candidate for a labor coordinator > >> position at the UCLA Labor Center. > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------- > >> William Kramer > >> UCLA LAMAP Coordinator > >> 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor > >> Los Angeles, CA 90024 > >> > >> 310-794-0698 (phone) > >> 310-794-8017 (fax) > >> wkramer@ucla.edu (email) > >> ---------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > From delgado@orion.oac.uci.edu Wed Oct 16 14:51:40 1996 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:51:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Hector Delgado To: William Kramer Subject: Re: Fernando Gapasin Reception Friday 9:30 William - I responded to this message and mistakenly sent it to LABOR-RAP. In case you don't get it, I wanted to thank you for meeting with me and wanted to know if Gapasin was applying for a new position or for a position someone was leaving. Sorry for the mix up. Talk with you soon. I may see you Friday, but almostr definitely Saturday. Take care. Hector On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, William Kramer wrote: > Here is an event I encourage people to check out: > > Fernando Gapasin > Friday October 18 > 9:30 to 11:00 AM > 3232 Campbell Hall > > Refreshments will be served. > > Gapasin is an Assistant Professor at Penn State in Labor Studies, Asian > American Studies and Chicano Studies. He was the former Secretary Treasurer > of the Santa Clara Labor Council. He is a candidate for a labor coordinator > position at the UCLA Labor Center. > > > > --------------------------------- > William Kramer > UCLA LAMAP Coordinator > 1001 Gayley Avenue--2nd Floor > Los Angeles, CA 90024 > > 310-794-0698 (phone) > 310-794-8017 (fax) > wkramer@ucla.edu (email) > ---------------------------------- > > > From eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu Thu Oct 17 07:08:54 1996 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:03:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Ellen R Shaffer To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Global economy seminars on tape In-Reply-To: Hi, just wanted to let you know I sent your tapes out last week (also sent copies to Rudy Torres). You should have them soon. - Ellen On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Goetz Wolff wrote: > Please send me all seven of the following tapes: > >1. David Harvey: Critique of Globalization > >2. David Harvey: Impact of Urbanization on Democracy and the Environment > >3. Erica Schoenberger: Multinational Corporations and the Globalization > >of the Economy > >4. Harvey Brenner: Impact on Health and Mortality of Global Restructuring > >5. Vicente Navarro: Employment and Unemployment in the U.S. and Europe > >6. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly: Rethinking Gender in the Global Economy: > >Latin America and Beyond > >7. Howard Jackson and Baltimore BUILD: The Baltimore Living Wage Campaign > > > >1. Send me an email reply (eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu) and tell me > >which number(s) & name(s) you want, so I can prepare a copy. > > > > Check is coming to you under separate cover. > > >My address is: Ellen Shaffer > > 807 Arrington Drive > > Silver Spring, MD 20901 > > > > > Thanks so much. I haven't seen David in a number of years. > > -goetz > > gwolff@ucla.edu -or- goetzwolff@igc.apc.org (LaborNet) > =================================================== > Goetz Wolff > --------------------------------------------------- > UCLA MAIL ADDRESS: > School of Public Policy & Social Research > UCLA - 3250 Public Policy Building > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656 > .................................................... > UCLA OFFICES & PHONE #'s > @ Urban Planning > 5367 Public Policy Building > (310) 206-4285 / (310) 206-5566 (FAX) > .................................................... > @ North American Integration and Development Center > Suite 2381 Public Policy Building > (310) 206-4609 / (310) 825-8574 (FAX) > ---------------------------------------------------- > OFF-CAMPUS OFFICE > Resources for Employment & Econ. Development > 1221 Olancha Drive > Los Angeles, CA 90065 > (213) 254-6369 / (213) 254-4405 (FAX) > ==================================================== > > > From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Thu Oct 17 07:26:24 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:31:21 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 3A The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 3A: NON-STANDARD AND CONTINGENT WORK This session included the following presentations: Temporary Employment in the United States: Evidence from a New CPS Supplement by Phil Rones, USA Bureau of Labor Statistics A Comparative Analysis of Moonlighting and Related Policy Issues in Canada and the United States by Jean Kimmel, W.E. Upjohn Institute, and Lisa Powell, Queen's University ************************* Temporary Employment in the United States: Evidence from a New CPS Supplement by Phil Rones, USA Bureau of Labor Statistics The purpose of this presentation was to introduce descriptive data drawn from a new data source: a supplement to the February 1995 Current Population Survey (the USA equivalent to the Labour Force Survey) with a focus on " contingent" work. It is hoped to repeat this supplementary survey every two years (i.e again in February 1997). For the purposes of the supplementary survey, contingent workers were defined as persons with no implicit or explicit contract for ongoing employment or whose employment was "contingent" on their employer's short-term needs for labour. The survey posed a number of questions on work arrangements which make it possible for researchers to construct their own definitions of non-standard, temporary and contingent employment and to assess what proportion of employment is accounted for by these categories. To illustrate this he provided three increasingly stringent definitions of contingent workers which reduce the number of persons in this category from 6.0 to 3.4 to 2.7 million persons. The first defines as a contingent worker persons who believe they are unlikely to continue in their current job indefinitely. The second included only employees who expected their jobs to last one year or less for economic reasons and who had held their job for less than a year plus independent contractors and self-employed persons who met the same criteria. The third definition was the same as the second, but excluded independent contractors and the self-employed. Using the most stringent definition, the characteristics distinguishing contingent workers from other workers were that they were disproportionately young and attending school full-time, female and black. Those who were not full-time students tended to be similar in background to other workers, but earned less per hour, were less likely to be covered by health insurance or a pension plan and were more likely to be in professional and administrative support occupations. Slightly over half would prefer to be in non-contingent employment. The remainder presumably liked the flexibility of contingent work given their educational and child care responsibilities. Only small proportions of independent contractors (8.3 million) were contingent workers using this definition. Comment: This will be an interesting data source to follow for changes in various non-standard work arrangements over time. Preliminary results indicate that the numbers of these workers may be smaller than some alarmist commentators had indicated. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will publish highlights from the first survey within the next few months. ************************* A Comparative Analysis of Moonlighting and Related Policy Issues in Canada and the United States by Jean Kimmel, W.E. Upjohn Institute, and Lisa Powell, Queen's University This paper was about multiple job holding in Canada and the United States. Data for Canada were drawn from the November 1991 Survey of Work Arrangements ( a supplement to that month's Labour Force Survey ) and from the 1981, 1985 and 1995 Labour Force Survey. Data for the United States were drawn from the May 1981, May 1985 and May 1991 Current Population Surveys (including a special supplement with information on multiple jobs) and from unpublished 1994 data from the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics. The population examined was persons 17-64 excluding unpaid family workers. An intensive comparative analysis was done of the characteristics of multiple job holders in the two countries according to a number of variables for 1991. This was supplemented by regression analysis regarding the determinants of moonlighting or multiple job holding and the structure of primary job and secondary job wages. The paper also examined trends over time for males and female multiple job holding in the two countries. The purpose of these methodologies was to shed light on the reasons for moonlighting and how they may have changed over time. The key messages of the paper are: a. Canada-USA comparisons: As of 1991, USA workers were slightly more likely to moonlight than Canadians( 6% vs. 5%) with almost all the difference accounted for by males; US moonlighters tend to be older , while Canadian moonlighters are better-educated; US moonlighters work more total hours than Canadian moonlighters; and moonlighting among Canadians, particularly women, is growing disproportionately among persons with a part-time primary job. b. Profile of moonlighters: Moonlighting rises with the level of education; unmarried women and divorced men with young children are the two marital status groups most likely to moonlight; and males with high wages in their primary jobs are much less likely to moonlight and there is a significant wage return in the secondary job to experience. c. Reasons for moonlighting: The bulk of moonlighting (2/3) is to increase household income. d. Trends in moonlighting: Both countries have experienced strong positive trends in moonlighting rates for women, never-married persons, youth and service workers while persons with university educations have maintained high rates of moonlighting; The authors see two potential issues related to increased moonlighting--time pressures faced by moonlighters and their families and the degree to which moonlighting reflects perceived financial hardship. The qualification of "perceived" is important, because moonlighters do not tend to be lower income workers and tend to be taking a second job to attain middle class goals such as home ownership, saving for post-secondary education for their children and for their own retirement. This conclusion may be less true for Canada, given recent increases here in moonlighting among persons with a part-time primary job. Comment: This paper contains a wealth of useful data and analysis. One weakness, pointed out by the discussant, was the lack of inclusion of family income as a variable in the regression analysis. The reason for this is that the surveys used did not contain this information. However, if available, this might have explained the differences in moonlighting incidence rates by marital status and gender. The discussant also noted that longitudinal surveys such as the SLID might enable future researchers to determine how sustainable moonlighting is as a work arrangement (i.e Is it a temporary or a long-term phenomenon for the individuals who moonlight?). From jraulett@unccvm.uncc.edu Thu Oct 17 08:31:15 1996 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:32:46 -0400 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: jraulett@unccvm.uncc.edu (Judy Aulette) Subject: Re: Global economy seminars on tape How much do these tapes cost and how do I get them? Judy Aulette >Hi, just wanted to let you know I sent your tapes out last week (also >sent copies to Rudy Torres). You should have them soon. - Ellen > >On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Goetz Wolff wrote: > >> Please send me all seven of the following tapes: >> >1. David Harvey: Critique of Globalization >> >2. David Harvey: Impact of Urbanization on Democracy and the Environment >> >3. Erica Schoenberger: Multinational Corporations and the Globalization >> >of the Economy >> >4. Harvey Brenner: Impact on Health and Mortality of Global Restructuring >> >5. Vicente Navarro: Employment and Unemployment in the U.S. and Europe >> >6. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly: Rethinking Gender in the Global Economy: >> >Latin America and Beyond >> >7. Howard Jackson and Baltimore BUILD: The Baltimore Living Wage Campaign >> >> >> >1. Send me an email reply (eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu) and tell me >> >which number(s) & name(s) you want, so I can prepare a copy. >> > >> >> Check is coming to you under separate cover. >> >> >My address is: Ellen Shaffer >> > 807 Arrington Drive >> > Silver Spring, MD 20901 >> > >> > >> Thanks so much. I haven't seen David in a number of years. >> >> -goetz >> >> gwolff@ucla.edu -or- goetzwolff@igc.apc.org (LaborNet) >> =================================================== >> Goetz Wolff >> --------------------------------------------------- >> UCLA MAIL ADDRESS: >> School of Public Policy & Social Research >> UCLA - 3250 Public Policy Building >> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656 >> .................................................... >> UCLA OFFICES & PHONE #'s >> @ Urban Planning >> 5367 Public Policy Building >> (310) 206-4285 / (310) 206-5566 (FAX) >> .................................................... >> @ North American Integration and Development Center >> Suite 2381 Public Policy Building >> (310) 206-4609 / (310) 825-8574 (FAX) >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> OFF-CAMPUS OFFICE >> Resources for Employment & Econ. Development >> 1221 Olancha Drive >> Los Angeles, CA 90065 >> (213) 254-6369 / (213) 254-4405 (FAX) >> ==================================================== >> >> >> > From sscipe1@icarus.cc.uic.edu Thu Oct 17 08:36:28 1996 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:37:26 -0500 (CDT) To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: sscipe1@icarus.cc.uic.edu (Kim Scipes) Dear Folks: Please allow me to introduce myself: my name is Kim Scipes, and I'm a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I have recently published a book in the Philippines on the radical wing of the Philippine labor movement, and thought you and/or faculty members and/or graduate students in your department might be interested in knowing about this book. We have no money for advertising, and so are dependent upon word-of-mouth. Would you please foward this message to anybody in your department that is interested in labor, workers, women workers, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia, social movements, social movement unionism, third world development, political sociology? Further, would you ask them to forward this message on to their friends and networks, so we can get the widest distribution possible? Thank you. Thanks again for any assistance/support you can give to this request. With best wishes--Kim Scipes Kim Scipes. 1996. KMU: BUILDING GENUINE TRADE UNIONISM IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1980-1994. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers. Available from in the Philippines from: New Day Publishers, PO Box 1167, 1100 Quezon City, Philippines. Fax: 63/2/924-6544, Voice: 63/2/928-8046. Cost: In Philippines: P 350; outside of the Philippines and US: US $15, plus US $6 for airmail postage, $4 for sea Available in the US from: Sulu Arts and Books, 465 Sixth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-4794. Voice: 415/777-2451, fax: 415/777-4676. Cost: $18.95 (minus 5% discount for educators and students), plus shipping. >From the back cover of the book: "The KMU (Kilusang Mayo Uno) or May First Movement is the most militant labor center in the Philippines, and one of the most dynamic and developed in the world. It played a key role in toppling the Marcos dictatorship, and has been central in the fight against the restoration of a system of elite democracy. Based at the point of production, distribution and exchange in the Philippine economy, it has acted to raise wages and improve working conditions for its members, while challenging the various government's 'western' model of development and the Philippines' role in the global economy. It has allied with social movements throughout the country and internationally, and is one of the creators of a new type of trade unionism--social movement unionism--that is a model for workers in both the 'third world' and the so-called developed countries. "This is the first book-length study of the KMU, and covers the first 14 years of its existence. Since the KMU is a national center of regional labor organizations, this book looks at the development of these regional labor centers across colonial and postcolonial production systems--capitalist agriculture in Mindanao, extractive mining in Cebu, plantation sugar in Negros, and a multinational export processing zone in Bataan--to understand how the KMU has developed. Additionally, this book specifically looks at how the KMU approaches gender relations organizationally, focusing on the Kilusan ng Manggagawang Kababaihan (KMK)--the gender-based women worker's organization--as well as looking at women's leadership in nationwide organizations and in local unions. This is the first book to examine the changes in the country from the dictatorship to the reestablishment of elite democracy from the perspective of militant labor. While focused primarily on the 1980-90 period, this book also evaluates the situation under the Ramos administration, and the splits that initially appeared to threaten the existence of the KMU in 1993." Note: This book would be excellent for classes on the Philippines, Asia, "third world" development, labor, social movements, social movement unions, workers, women workers. Although not a theoretical book, it is an in-depth empirical study that provides extensive material for theoretical intervention. And if you would be so kind as to ask your library to order it.... From carre@radmail.harvard.edu Thu Oct 17 10:57:30 1996 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:48:57 -0400 From: Francoise Carre To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Global economy seminars on tape -Reply Thanks so much FC >>> Ellen R Shaffer 10/17/96 09:03am >>> Hi, just wanted to let you know I sent your tapes out last week (also sent copies to Rudy Torres). You should have them soon. - Ellen On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Goetz Wolff wrote: > Please send me all seven of the following tapes: > >1. David Harvey: Critique of Globalization > >2. David Harvey: Impact of Urbanization on Democracy and the Environment > >3. Erica Schoenberger: Multinational Corporations and the Globalization > >of the Economy > >4. Harvey Brenner: Impact on Health and Mortality of Global Restructuring > >5. Vicente Navarro: Employment and Unemployment in the U.S. and Europe > >6. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly: Rethinking Gender in the Global Economy: > >Latin America and Beyond > >7. Howard Jackson and Baltimore BUILD: The Baltimore Living Wage Campaign > > > >1. Send me an email reply (eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu) and tell me > >which number(s) & name(s) you want, so I can prepare a copy. > > > > Check is coming to you under separate cover. > > >My address is: Ellen Shaffer > > 807 Arrington Drive > > Silver Spring, MD 20901 > > > > > Thanks so much. I haven't seen David in a number of years. > > -goetz > > gwolff@ucla.edu -or- goetzwolff@igc.apc.org (LaborNet) > =================================================== > Goetz Wolff > --------------------------------------------------- > UCLA MAIL ADDRESS: > School of Public Policy & Social Research > UCLA - 3250 Public Policy Building > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656 > .................................................... > UCLA OFFICES & PHONE #'s > @ Urban Planning > 5367 Public Policy Building > (310) 206-4285 / (310) 206-5566 (FAX) > .................................................... > @ North American Integration and Development Center > Suite 2381 Public Policy Building > (310) 206-4609 / (310) 825-8574 (FAX) > ---------------------------------------------------- > OFF-CAMPUS OFFICE > Resources for Employment & Econ. Development > 1221 Olancha Drive > Los Angeles, CA 90065 > (213) 254-6369 / (213) 254-4405 (FAX) > ==================================================== > > > From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Fri Oct 18 05:53:25 1996 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:18:54 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: F.Y.I. Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 03:38:22 -0500 Reply-To: irra@relay.doit.wisc.edu Originator: irra@relay.doit.wisc.edu Sender: irra@relay.doit.wisc.edu From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Forwarded mail....Conference Info (fwd) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:19:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Vincent Subject: Forwarded mail....Conference Info > > >In case anyone is interested. > > >Below is the Call for Papers and Proposals for the Second >Annual >Working-Class Academics Conference. The 1996 conference at >the >University of Wisconsin-Green Bay included presenters from >the >Midwestern U.S., East Coast, and from Canada. If you are >interested in the sociology of education, experiences of >working-class graduate students and faculty, research by or >about working class persons, or any issue or concept related >to this, please read this CFP. > > ****Please distribute this CFP to interested colleagues >and relevant > e-mail lists.*** > >C A L L F O R P A P E R S/P R O P O S >A L S > > Themes/tracks: > Media Representations of the Working-Class > Undergraduate Education: Support Services for Working-Class >Undergraduates > Faculty Issues > Critique of Works Purporting to be about Class > Mentoring the Working-Class Student > Class and Graduate Education -- Socialization > What is Class? >Language-clothing-economics-education-religion > Others? > > Conference Dates: June 6-9, 1997 > > Conference Chair: Kate Lindemann > Phone Number: (914) 569-3156 > Email address: lindeman@msmc.edu > > Paper/Proposals due: MUST ARRIVE BY FEBRUARY 1, 1997 > > Submission Guidelines: > Proposals should be sent via electronic mail before >February 1, 1997. > Authors whose proposals are accepted for presentation >should bring one > copy of the completed paper with them on floppy disk for >inclusion on > the Conference electronic discussion list. Presenters are >expected to > register for, and participate in the conference. > > Proposals should include the following information: > > Paper/Proposal Title:(10 words) > Presentation Abstract: (60-80 words). > Presentation Description: (500 words). > > Proposal Type Submitted: (Please identify one) > ___ Formal, Completed Paper > ___ Short Workshop Presentation Proposal > ___ Roundtable Discussion Proposal > ___ Panel Presentation Proposal > > Audience for which your presentation is MOST >appropriate: > (Please identify one) > ___ Humanities > ___ Social Sciences > ___ K-12 > ___ Higher Education > ___ All > > Audio/Visual equipment needed for this presentation: >(Please > identify all that apply. MSMC will attempt to fill >reasonable requests > but it is recommended that presenters have a "low-tech" >presentation > plan. > ___ Overhead Projector > ___ Television/VCR > ___ White/Chalk Board > ___ Other (Please >specify:___________________________________) > > Notice of acceptance of papers will be mailed by April 30, >1997. > Proposals must thoroughly describe the presentation, and >papers must be > complete. Proposals should be sent to: > Program Chair: Ed Teall >Email address: teall@msmc.edu Phone Number: 914-569-3165 > Fax Number: 914-562-6762 Note: Potential presenters >are encouraged to contact the program chair by > e-mail. > >Conference Location: Mount St. Mary's College > 330 Powell Avenue > Newburgh, New York 12550 > Setting: > A small liberal arts college overlooking the >Hudson River in a > diverse old River town. Nearby points of interest include >the FDR home > and Val Kill, West Point, Shawgununk Mountains [rock >climbing par > excellence], and in the city area itself Washington's >headquarters, > the last encampment of Continental army etc., so families >might > find it a good vacation area. Close enough to NY, NJ, CT, >and parts of >PA > and MA to make a day trip possible for students or others >who are unable to > stay over. > > Lodging > Information and rates will go out with the registration >notice. There > are numerous motels in the area and we expect to have bare >bones dormitory > lodging for those interested in staying on campus. Bed and > breakfasts are nearby. There is a KOA about 20 miles away >for those who > prefer to camp. > > Transportation: > By Land: > At the intersection of I-87 {NYS Thruway] and I-84. >Served by train to > Beacon, NY [across the Hudson], Poughkeepsie, > NY and by Short Line Bus from NYC and Danbury. Driving >directions will be published with registration information. > > By Air: > Stewart International Airport - Newburgh, NY is 15 minutes >from > school. > > Conference costs will be published with the announcement. >There will be some "work scholarships" [help with >registration etc.] available for > students and underemployed. Please do not let $$$$ >prevent you from > submitting a paper! > > Kate Lindemann > lindeman@msmc.edu > > > > > > > Michael Eisenscher Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program Univ. of MA-Boston 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Drexel University Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. "If you don't feel totally confused about what is going on, you're out of touch!" Tom Peters From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Fri Oct 18 05:54:01 1996 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:19:37 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Charity Appeal Dear Brothers and Sisters: This coming Sunday (October 20) my wife Lynn and I will walk 9 miles apiece with several thousand others in the 10th Annual Philadelphia AIDS Walk (to help raise money for AIDS research): If you can e-mail me a pledge of any dollars in support of this effort, the AIDS research foundation (and Lynn and me) will be most appreciative. Please then send a check (made out to From All Walks of Life) or cash to me at 523 Dudley Avenue, Narberth, PA 19072-1710. Many thanks, fraternally, Art Shostak P.S.: Your donnations are tax-deductible. Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Drexel University Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. "If you don't feel totally confused about what is going on, you're out of touch!" Tom Peters From eshaffer@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu Fri Oct 18 12:55:43 1996 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Ellen R Shaffer To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu ELLEN RUTH SHAFFER Subject: Tobacco stock divestment (fwd) Attached is a message re: immediate action on TIAA-CREF investments in the tobacco industry; it comes from a public health list, and will probably be of interest to all CREF participants. Today's very timely news that scientists have just proven scientifically the biological link between cancer and smoking means that tobacco co. stocks are undoubtedly about to become an even worse investment, in addition to their other less than aromatic properties. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:31:13 -0400 From: Sally Guttmacher To: spirit1848@ripken.oit.unc.edu Subject: Tobacco stock divestment >Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:40:35 -0400 (EDT) >From: Eugene Feingold >To: Sally Guttmacher >Subject: Tobacco stock divestment >X-UIDL: 7e5f7e63ca4f862aa8b611192f088b39 > > >***Please broadcast widely*** > >YOU CAN VOTE --THIS MONTH -- >TO HAVE TIAA-CREF DISPOSE OF ITS TOBACCO INVESTMENTS > > CREF (College Retirement Equities Fund) owns more than a billion >dollars of Philip Morris stock and commercial paper, as well as more than >a > third of a billion in twenty-one other tobacco corporations. > > If you're a CREF participant, you have good reason to be >uncomfortable with these investments, on both ethical and financial >grounds. And you'll have the chance to do something about it this month >when you receive your annual proxy mailing from TIAA-CREF. > > Participant Proposal III (item #5 on your proxy ballot) asks that CREF divest itself, >in an >orderly fashion, of its tobacco-related investments. I urge you to vote >for >the divestiture resolution. This position has been endorsed by the >American >Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the >Michigan Conference of the AAUP, among others. > > Tobacco is a risky investment. Hundreds of individual and class >action personal injury and fraud suits have been filed against tobacco >companies. Seventeen states are suing for reimbursement of the billions >they have spent for medical care as a result of tobacco-related illnesses. > > Tobacco use is increasingly stigmatized in American society. The >public is becoming increasingly hostile toward the tobacco industry as >confidential documents and former industry officials testify to tobacco >companies' dishonesty and misleading practices. The Justice Department is >considering perjury charges against top tobacco executives. In this >atmosphere, it is not unreasonable to think that the economic power and >political influence of the tobacco industry will no longer be as >successful as >it has been in the past in protecting the industry. > > TIAA-CREF management says that current prices of tobacco stocks >already reflect these risks. But not all financial analysts agree. >Moreover, >it is not necessary to invest in tobacco to gain adequate returns. The >Pioneer Fund, which has been tobacco-free for 68 years, has had an >average annual return over that period that exceeds the Standard and Poor >500 index by almost 3% a year. Although tobacco stocks did better than >the S&P index over the past 10 years, tobacco has done worse over the >past five. And Amy Domini, a leading social investment financial >manager, >concludes that tobacco investment has had minimal effect, either positive >or >negative, on fund returns. > > TIAA-CREF management has also argued that those who don't wish >to invest in tobacco can choose its Social Choice Account. But this >account >does not serve investors who want only a stock fund, and those who want >a fund that excludes only tobacco investments. The Social Choice Account >invests in both stocks and bonds, and excludes many other kinds of stocks >in addition to tobacco. (Parenthetically, the stock portion of the Social >Choice Account has out-performed the CREF Stock Account over the last >five years, giving the lie to management's suggestion that a total >restriction >on tobacco investments would necessarily result in weakened performance.) > > And the Social Choice option does not respond to the health and >moral arguments against CREF'S investment in tobacco. > > A recent World Health Organization-sponsored study reported that >smoking caused 3 million deaths world-wide in 1990. In the United >States, >nearly 450,000 die every year from tobacco-related illnesses. If tobacco >companies are to maintain their profits, they must replace the smokers who >die -- and they do this by targeting their advertising in this country to >young >people, ethnic minorities, and women. Studies have shown that the >industry's aggressive marketing has a major impact on children. The >average American smoker first tries cigarettes at age 14 and becomes a >daily smoker before age 18. Very few begin smoking after their teens. > > The TIAA-CREF management's remaining argument against tobacco >investment would be laughable, were it not so pitiful and misleading. >TIAA- >CREF management says that continued investment in tobacco gives it the >opportunity "to engage in an ongoing dialogue with tobacco companies on >how to address public concerns about smoking." Yet, CREF has often >abstained or voted against tobacco company stockholder resolutions >dealing with discouraging marketing to youth and pregnant women, or >proposing a reduction in cigarette nicotine content. > > A vote for Resolution #3, asking CREF to divest itself of its >tobacco >investments in an orderly fashion, is a financially prudent and ethical >choice. > > Please forward this message via e-mail to faculty and staff on >your >campus and to your friends on other campuses. Make others aware of it by >posting copies in your department, writing letters to your campus and >local >newspapers, or in any other way you can think of. > > >__________________________________________________________________________ > >Eugene Feingold University of Michigan School of Public Health >352 Hilldale Drive, Ann Arbor MI 48105 (313) 662-8788 Fax (313)662-2713 >__________________________________________________________________________ > > > Sally G. From dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu Sat Oct 19 13:33:50 1996 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 15:32:20 -0400 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu (david croteau) Subject: housekeeping items Greetings, Three quick housekeeping items re: LABOR-RAP. 1. We've been up and running for about a month now. Our subscriber list has stabilized at 200. So far things seem to be running quite smoothly with some interesting and informative posts. A collective congratulations to all. 2. One small reminder: if you use your "reply" key to respond to a message, it will go to the ENTIRE list, not just the individual sender. If you intend a reponse to be personal, be sure you're sending it only to the original, individual sender, not to LABOR-RAP. 3. If you pass on a message from LABOR-RAP to a colleague who is not subscribed to LABOR-RAP, they will NOT be able to post a response to the list. (As listowner I get a copy of these "rejected" postings.) That is, your colleague will either have to subscribe (see below) to be able to post, or you will have to post the message on their behalf. REMINDER A reminder of the basic commands used with your LABOR-RAP subscription. I encourage you to print this message out and keep it handy for future reference. 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He can be reached at: dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| David Croteau Sociology/ Virginia Commonwealth University E-mail: dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Sun Oct 20 08:49:04 1996 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:14:38 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Request for material Dear Brothers and Sisters: I am preparing for submission to Greenhaven Press, the ILR Press, and related others a manuscript of edited material entitled Labor Unions: Pro and Con. Guided by the Greenhaven "Opposing Viewpoints" format, the book will feature pithy essays and op-ed pieces less than three years old that in a balanced way will make the strongest possible argument on either side of major controversies regarding organized labor. Readers will be challenged to test their pre-assumptions, and possibly claim a new point-of-view. Naturally, such questions as labor's impact on productivity, inflation, shopfloor democracy, and due process at work will be considered. Other matters, like unions and political action,organizing, racism, sexism, ageism, racketeering, violence, community service, return on dues, and models (business, service, organizing, militant, associational) etc., will be debated, as will such unusual topics as internal union democracy, the unionization of union staffers, unions and overseas political affairs, a Labor Party, and the like. Can you help? I am very short of material taking the ANTI-union side of these matters. I have now completed a computer-driven search of the files of the National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the N.Y.Times, and of articles by Buckley, Jr., Seligman, Troy, Rasberry, and Sowell. I need more leads, and preferably, zerox copies of anti-union material from your files that is recent (less than 3 years old), pithy, engaging, and fair to the argument. I think I have enough pro-union material on hand, but may yet send out a message like this one soliciting specific pro-union pieces when the volume has more shape (by the end of November). Thanks for any assistance. Fraternally, Art Shostak Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Drexel University Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. "If you don't feel totally confused about what is going on, you're out of touch!" Tom Peters From nkrhodes@mailbox.syr.edu Sun Oct 20 12:10:19 1996 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:09:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Nancy K. Rhodes" To: Labor Research and Action Project Subject: Re: Request for material I am curious whether you will include the unique case of police unions/associations/guilds in your consideration, and whether others on this list have an interest in this issue. Nancy Rhodes Maxwell School, Syracuse University From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Sun Oct 20 18:14:29 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:19:15 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 3B The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 3B: PRIVATE SECTOR CASE STUDIES This session included the following presentations: Patterns of Employment and Working Time Among Early Retirees of a Telecommunications Firm by Anil Verma and Gangaram Singh, University of Toronto Administrative and Professional Job Sharing Case Studies by Donna Baxter, University of Ottawa NOVA's Approach to Adjusting Working Time by Arnold Wensky and Kevin Matthews, Nova Corporation Rethinking Careers: Changes in the Structure of Work and the Life Course by Victor Marshall and Joanne Marshall, University of Toronto ************************* Patterns of Employment and Working Time Among Early Retirees of a Telecommunications Firm by Anil Verma and Gangaram Singh, University of Toronto This is one of seven case studies that form the "Issues of an Aging Workforce" project conducted by CARNET (Canadian Aging Research Network) and sponsored by HRDC. The methodology includes survey responses and face-to-face interview results with 1,944 former employees of Bell Canada (Ontario) who voluntarily left that firm, with retirement packages in hand, between 1985 and 1995. The study focuses on the post-career/post-Bell Canada labour market experiences of those individuals. The results corroborate previous research suggesting that economic status, occupation and the centrality of work (for the individual) are strongly associated with successful post-career employment experience. Verma and Singh have reviewed these data extensively, and except for certain limitations associated with the design of the study itself (e.g., it covers only a sub-sample of retirees, and so their labour market outcomes are not strictly comparable with the remainder of the case studies; work schedules rather than hours of work were assessed; and it does not compare 1985 leavers with 1995 leavers), contributes to our understanding of how downsizing exercises involving an older workforce actually do play out at the firm level. The implication for policy is that we may need to encourage employers to more consciously consider the circumstances of their older workers as they continue to adjust the workforce. ************************* Administrative and Professional Job Sharing Case Studies by Donna Baxter, University of Ottawa This is a highly qualitative set of 9 case studies, involving typically just the two individuals involved in the worksharing arrangement. Interviews were conducted mostly in 1994. The focus of the research was to determine conditions that both impede and facilitate job sharing, what the effects are on how work is done, on the individual, as well as on the organization. The research goal was to determine whether job sharing was especially feasible for the education sector (half of cases involved educators). The author only partially achieves her research objectives in that it is clear what makes for a successful job sharing arrangement, but less clear why this option has not caught on in situations where it appears conducive. In addition, the differences/benefits of job sharing over concurrent part-time work is not clearly distinguished. Some of the case studies were arguably no different than part-time work arrangements. As to the perceived higher costs of job sharing arrangements over part-time work, managers who have to work more or longer to bridge the work efforts of two job sharers may be reticent to accept such work arrangements. However, the author does establish lists of key adverse effects and key facilitating effects that are instructive, and the descriptive information provided through this study will be of particular interest to education sector workers. As certain provincial governments put the squeeze on education budgets, it may behove employers, employees and unions alike to consider some seldom-used means to maintain jobs, including job sharing. ************************* NOVA's Approach to Adjusting Working Time by Arnold Wensky and Kevin Matthews, Nova Corporation This case study focuses on shift work and is based on a survey of 850 night shift workers in a non-unionized petro-chemical plant in central Alberta. While results are not very generalizable, they nonetheless serve to begin the process of quantifying effects of alternative work arrangements on individuals and firms. As more and more companies move to round-the-clock production schedules ('just in time' production, servicing clients around the globe), it becomes increasingly important to understand the effects of alternate work arrangements (in this case night shift) on output quality as well as on the individuals working those arrangements. ************************* Rethinking Careers: Changes in the Structure of Work and the Life Course by Victor Marshall and Joanne Marshall, University of Toronto This is another of the seven case studies that form the "Issues of an Aging Workforce" project performed by Canadian Aging Research Network (CARNET) researchers and sponsored by HRDC. This case study of 1,107 employees (including managers) of NOVA corporation, a petro-chemicals firm based in Calgary provides a highly descriptive assessment of the experience of older workers in a dual labour market situation (core/periphery). The key message is that age does not appear to be a factor which distinguishes workers who have a future with the firm from those who do not. Rather, it is worker status as either core or contingent that appears to be the key factor which determines future opportunities (or lack thereof). Given their comparatively strong previous work histories (mainly with NOVA), older workers do not appear to be especially vulnerable at this time, and in fact a good number are main beneficiaries of the adjusting-out process (buy-outs, new business start-ups, etc...). The study raises the question as to whether and to what extent firms can attain the goal of a high-performance workplace when they continue to increase the share of contingent workers. This broader policy question is beyond the scope of this paper. One discussant felt that the report was a bit 'sanitized' in the sense that it appeared to buy-in to the company propaganda. From LORD_G@crob.flint.umich.edu Mon Oct 21 09:10:39 1996 From: "George Lord" To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:10:18 EST Subject: CREF AND TOBACCO I just rec'd and returned my CREF ballot. However, those of us who have chosen the "Social Choice" CREF account are not allowed to vote on the Tobacco referendum. This points out that we probably need to make some investment in the traditional CREF accounts in order to have a voice in these issues. Also there is another important referendum on the ballot that CREF would only invest in firms that hold executive pay to 150% of the median income , or about three million dollars a year. The CREF board of directors opposes both referenda. I urge all CREF members to Vote for both if you have the opportunity. George Lord Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:50:24 -0400 (EDT) Reply-to: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Ellen R Shaffer To: Labor Research and Action Project Subject: Tobacco stock divestment (fwd) Attached is a message re: immediate action on TIAA-CREF investments in the tobacco industry; it comes from a public health list, and will probably be of interest to all CREF participants. Today's very timely news that scientists have just proven scientifically the biological link between cancer and smoking means that tobacco co. stocks are undoubtedly about to become an even worse investment, in addition to their other less than aromatic properties. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:31:13 -0400 From: Sally Guttmacher To: spirit1848@ripken.oit.unc.edu Subject: Tobacco stock divestment >Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:40:35 -0400 (EDT) >From: Eugene Feingold >To: Sally Guttmacher >Subject: Tobacco stock divestment >X-UIDL: 7e5f7e63ca4f862aa8b611192f088b39 > > >***Please broadcast widely*** > >YOU CAN VOTE --THIS MONTH -- >TO HAVE TIAA-CREF DISPOSE OF ITS TOBACCO INVESTMENTS > > CREF (College Retirement Equities Fund) owns more than a billion >dollars of Philip Morris stock and commercial paper, as well as more than >a > third of a billion in twenty-one other tobacco corporations. > > If you're a CREF participant, you have good reason to be >uncomfortable with these investments, on both ethical and financial >grounds. And you'll have the chance to do something about it this month >when you receive your annual proxy mailing from TIAA-CREF. > > Participant Proposal III (item #5 on your proxy ballot) asks that CREF divest itself, >in an >orderly fashion, of its tobacco-related investments. I urge you to vote >for >the divestiture resolution. This position has been endorsed by the >American >Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the >Michigan Conference of the AAUP, among others. > > Tobacco is a risky investment. Hundreds of individual and class >action personal injury and fraud suits have been filed against tobacco >companies. Seventeen states are suing for reimbursement of the billions >they have spent for medical care as a result of tobacco-related illnesses. > > Tobacco use is increasingly stigmatized in American society. The >public is becoming increasingly hostile toward the tobacco industry as >confidential documents and former industry officials testify to tobacco >companies' dishonesty and misleading practices. The Justice Department is >considering perjury charges against top tobacco executives. In this >atmosphere, it is not unreasonable to think that the economic power and >political influence of the tobacco industry will no longer be as >successful as >it has been in the past in protecting the industry. > > TIAA-CREF management says that current prices of tobacco stocks >already reflect these risks. But not all financial analysts agree. >Moreover, >it is not necessary to invest in tobacco to gain adequate returns. The >Pioneer Fund, which has been tobacco-free for 68 years, has had an >average annual return over that period that exceeds the Standard and Poor >500 index by almost 3% a year. Although tobacco stocks did better than >the S&P index over the past 10 years, tobacco has done worse over the >past five. And Amy Domini, a leading social investment financial >manager, >concludes that tobacco investment has had minimal effect, either positive >or >negative, on fund returns. > > TIAA-CREF management has also argued that those who don't wish >to invest in tobacco can choose its Social Choice Account. But this >account >does not serve investors who want only a stock fund, and those who want >a fund that excludes only tobacco investments. The Social Choice Account >invests in both stocks and bonds, and excludes many other kinds of stocks >in addition to tobacco. (Parenthetically, the stock portion of the Social >Choice Account has out-performed the CREF Stock Account over the last >five years, giving the lie to management's suggestion that a total >restriction >on tobacco investments would necessarily result in weakened performance.) > > And the Social Choice option does not respond to the health and >moral arguments against CREF'S investment in tobacco. > > A recent World Health Organization-sponsored study reported that >smoking caused 3 million deaths world-wide in 1990. In the United >States, >nearly 450,000 die every year from tobacco-related illnesses. If tobacco >companies are to maintain their profits, they must replace the smokers who >die -- and they do this by targeting their advertising in this country to >young >people, ethnic minorities, and women. Studies have shown that the >industry's aggressive marketing has a major impact on children. The >average American smoker first tries cigarettes at age 14 and becomes a >daily smoker before age 18. Very few begin smoking after their teens. > > The TIAA-CREF management's remaining argument against tobacco >investment would be laughable, were it not so pitiful and misleading. >TIAA- >CREF management says that continued investment in tobacco gives it the >opportunity "to engage in an ongoing dialogue with tobacco companies on >how to address public concerns about smoking." Yet, CREF has often >abstained or voted against tobacco company stockholder resolutions >dealing with discouraging marketing to youth and pregnant women, or >proposing a reduction in cigarette nicotine content. > > A vote for Resolution #3, asking CREF to divest itself of its >tobacco >investments in an orderly fashion, is a financially prudent and ethical >choice. > > Please forward this message via e-mail to faculty and staff on >your >campus and to your friends on other campuses. Make others aware of it by >posting copies in your department, writing letters to your campus and >local >newspapers, or in any other way you can think of. > > >__________________________________________________________________________ > >Eugene Feingold University of Michigan School of Public Health >352 Hilldale Drive, Ann Arbor MI 48105 (313) 662-8788 Fax (313)662-2713 >__________________________________________________________________________ > > > Sally G. George Lord Department of Sociology University of Michigan - Flint e-mail lord_g@flint.crob.umich.edu voice (810) 762-3340 fax (810) 762-3687 From cornfidb@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Mon Oct 21 09:15:04 1996 Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:30:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:33:24 -0500 From: Dan Cornfield Subject: new labor resource book To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu The following new book, which is available directly from the publisher, contains roughly 1,000 annotations of social science research publications about the U.S. labor movement, as well as several survey essays by the authors. It is especially relevant to labor studies programs, labor union research departments, universities, and business administration/management schools: Robert N. Stern and Daniel B. Cornfield, THE US LABOR MOVEMENT: REFERENCES AND RESOURCES. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. Publisher address: G.K. Hall, 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. We welcome your comments. Dan Cornfield Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235 USA (615) 322-7535 fax: (615) 322-7505 CORNFIDB@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU From abudak@alumni.ysu.edu Mon Oct 21 17:23:21 1996 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:18:11 -0400 From: Tony Budak Subject: JOB: Community Organizer "People Acting in Community Together" To: Tony Budak FOR YOUR INFORMATION - -please excuse inadvertent cross posting- Cheers, Peace, and Fondest Regards, Tony Budak <---- Begin Forwarded Message ----> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:36:04 CDT Reply-To: H-Net/H-Urban Seminar on History of Community Organizing & From: Wendy Plotkin Subject: JOB: Community Organizer "People Acting in Community Together" Posted by Heidi Swarts JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: COMMUNITY ORGANIZER People Acting in Community Together (PACT) 24 North Fifth St. San Jose, CA 95112-5499 Tel.: 408-998-8001 Fax: 408-998-5486 Primary Responsibilities: Teaching Community organizing skills to diverse community leaders, and moving organizing teams through local community actions. Hours/Pay Scale: Full time; includes considerable evening work. Pay: $25,000-$35,000 plus benefits (negotiable based on experience) Organization Description: Congregation-based community organization, organizing in neighborhoods and schools surrounding each of 17 member congregations. PACT is a not for profit grassroots organization founded in 1985. Over past 3 years, PACT has won $7 million in gang/drug prevention programs, funded by the Redevelopment Agency. Community homework centers serving 2,000 students have been initiated in middle schools, with City funding won through community action. Along with local community change, PACT is now organizing for high school reform to enable more effective school-to-career preparation. On October 1995, over 1,000 PACT leaders met with Sec. of Education Richard Riley and State Supt. of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin on this issue. PACT is affiliated with PICO (Pacific Institute for Community Organization), which operates throughout 25 cities nationwide. With PICO assistance, PACT provides professional staff development programs. Qualifications: * committed to social change * ability to work with religious congregations * ability to develop meaningful personal relationships * ability to challenge and be challenged * has experience working with diverse ethnic communities * bilingual (Spanish/English) *strongly* desired Mail or fax resume by October 28, 1996. <---- End Forwarded Message ----> From terje.gronning@esst.uio.no Tue Oct 22 03:24:20 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:26:44 +0200 To: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) From: Terje Gronning Subject: Re: Request for material At 11.14 20.10.1996 -0500, Art Shostak wrote: > >Can you help? I am very short of material taking the ANTI-union side of >these matters. > > Maybe this is a lead that is not precisely what you are looking for, or maybe it is not entirely usable, but nevertheless: the passage within the IMVP report The Machine that Changed the World where the authors describe and praise the union in a Ford plant because the union in this case, in the authors' opinion, disregard rules restricting flexibility immediately provoked strong reactions in both Labor Notes and in UAW Research. It could be interesting to assemble those three pieces together, but maybe impossible because of copyright etc.? Alternatively, shorter pieces on this by one or several of the MIT professors behind the report might be available. Another possibility is to search for material by managers at one or several of the Japanese-related transplants, especially Nissan. While managers at TMM in Kentucky and Honda in Ohio tend, in my experience, to answer questions concerning the union with referring to this issue as a question for the employees to decide, Nissan managers in Tennessee did (at least around 1990) take an open stance on this and stating that they did not want such a "third party" involved. Best regards, Terje Gronning, research associate, ESST (Education in Society, Science and Technology), University of Oslo, Box 1108 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. T: (+47) 22-85-89-62 F: (+47) 22-85-89-60 E: terje.gronning@esst.uio.no WWW=http://www.sv.uio.no/esst/ From cornfidb@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Tue Oct 22 05:40:53 1996 Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:40:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:43:24 -0500 From: Dan Cornfield Subject: new labor resource book II To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu P.S. if you would like to inquire about ordering the Stern & Cornfield reference book on the US labor movement over the telephone, as per my previous e-mail message, the toll-free number of Macmillan (which owns GK Hall) is: 1 800 223-2336. Cheers, Dan Cornfield Dan Cornfield Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235 USA (615) 322-7535 fax: (615) 322-7505 CORNFIDB@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU From aaron@burn.ucsd.edu Tue Oct 22 14:43:53 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:39:08 -0700 To: seac+announce@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu, LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: aaron@burn.ucsd.edu (Aaron) Subject: England: dockers and eco-activists together Friends & Comrades, I got this off the list , which got it indirectly from the list . I hope at least some of you are seeing it now for the first time. I've thrown in some bracket notes that may help the geographically or politically knowledge-impaired. I left in the swipes at other political trends and groups, since I didn't want to censor anything, but I take no responsibility for them. Dockers, i.e. longshoremen, in Liverpool, the last remaining unionized port in England, have been locked out for over a year. --Aaron ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Robert Miller <106014.55@compuserve.com> To: aut-op-sy@lists.village.virginia.edu Date: 20 Oct 1996 12:25 [time zone not specified -- Aaron] Subject:Manchester RTS Yesterday, 19th October, between 700 - 1000 Reclaim the Streets people took over a section of Oxford Road for the afternoon. We arrived with our kids at 1.15pm at St Peter's Square for the start of the party. Friends told us it wouldn't be moving off till about 2pm. So needing to feed hungry children, we went off in search of a bag of chips [We call them French Fries. -- Aaron] and somewhere to sit and eat them. This put us in a brilliant spot to watch the party kick off. At 2 o'clock, three or four activists unfurled a banner across Oxford Road, much to the bemusement of motorists. Within minutes hundreds of people were taking over a stretch of the road and traffic was being diverted. Sound systems were set up and cafe stalls doing a roaring trade. The party went on till 6 o'clock, with police standing round , not knowing what to do. I could go on describing the vibes, but folk can probably use their imaginations quite effectively. Far and away the most exciting aspect of the day was the presence of a group of around 40 Liverpool dockers. My partner and I spoke to a few of them. They explained that they'd come over because the RTS people had gone over to support them two weeks before (and received a leathering from the police). This is something that seems to terrify the state. Middle aged dockers and their families acting in solidarity with young eco-warriors. Dockers dancing to rave music from sound systems. Meanwhile, friends of ours on the eco-scene in Manchester say that they are going back to Liverpool on Nov 25th for another mass picket. They said that they are going at least in part to show the Liverpool police that they won't be fucked around. They see the importance of the link and intend to make it grow. The funniest thing of all is the absence of the big trot groups from all this. But perhaps I should say the best. It's ironic that for all their workerist posturings, the SWP [Socialist Workers' Party, connected with the International Socialist Organization in the U.S.--Aaron] express fuck all solidarity, whilst crusties and vegans are prepared to battle the police! Two footnotes: in an act of petty revenge, the filth impounded the van belonging to the Sunflower Vegan Cafe, who provided the food. Costing about #120 to get it back. Second: whilst the impressive display of solidarity was going on, the ICC [International Communist Current, a genuinely ultra-left group -- Aaron] were busy sitting in a pub, holding a meeting called "In Defence Of Revolutionary Organisations" - presumably an attack on us in Subversion. We, Subversion, were Reclaiming the Streets. Anyone on this list sympathetic to the ICC like to pick this one up? -------------------------------------------------- --/\-- A-Infos A-Infos / / \ \ A-Infos A-Infos ---|--/----\--|--- A-Infos A-Infos \/ \/ /\______/\ http://www.lglobal.com/TAO/ainfos.html To Subscribe to a-infos Send a message to majordomo@lglobal.com From gwolff@ucla.edu Tue Oct 22 22:03:19 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:06:22 -0800 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: gwolff@ucla.edu (Goetz Wolff) Subject: Philly Inquirer Series on Labor Labor in the 90s -- a three-part Inquirer series Organized labor struggles to rebuild its clout, using new thinking and new strategies. Today, Part 3, efforts at the ballot box. Part 2, new membership outreach [Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project - LAMAP] Part 1, labor in the nation's economy today A chart on union households voting Republican for President and Congress and Statistics on Americans' work and income Part 1 http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/96/Oct/20/front_page/LAB20.htm Part 2 http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/96/Oct/21/front_page/LAB21.htm Part 3 http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/96/Oct/22/front_page/LAB22.htm gwolff@ucla.edu -or- goetzwolff@igc.apc.org (LaborNet) =================================================== Goetz Wolff --------------------------------------------------- UCLA MAIL ADDRESS: School of Public Policy & Social Research UCLA - 3250 Public Policy Building Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656 ..................................................... 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Development 1221 Olancha Drive Los Angeles, CA 90065 (213) 254-6369 / (213) 254-4405 (FAX) ==================================================== From shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Wed Oct 23 16:00:59 1996 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:26:45 -0500 To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu From: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (Art Shostak) Subject: Labor-related Forecasting Brothers and Sisters: Several of you have asked me what, as an Industrial Sociologist/Labor Educator, I do when giving about 30 commissioned talks a year as a "futurist": Perhaps the item below will make it clear, and hopefully lead some of you into this type of adult education (local unions are VERY eager for this sort of material) - Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:40:16 -0400 From: edward_maciocha Subject: Dr. Art Shostak's futuristic workshop ( To: shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Dr. Shostak, I was able to publish an article on your PACE futurist workshop in my employer's newsletter. Please keep me informed of any futurist's workshops, seminars, meetings etc. ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: Dr. Art Shostak's futuristic workshop ( Author: Edward Maciocha at ~ASO-FS3-01 Date: 7/10/96 10:28 AM On May 22, 1996 as part of the annual PACE conference, there was a half-day futurist workshop presented by Dr. Art Shostak, Professor of Sociology at Drexel University. Dr. Shostak began his presentation with a promotional videotape from AT&T called "Connections". This video introduced the concept of the "Intelligent Agent", a software interface agent that is personally configured by the user into an anthropomorphic digitized image with the gender, diction, appearance and a cute nickname preferred by the user. It has a 24 hour a day existence in cyberspace and helps the user to find out what he wants by filtering and hunting through the terabytes of data for those of idiosyncratic interest to the user. The Intelligent Agent will bring us into a new era of interactivity in which we will be able to talk to the screens and the screens will talk back. These Intelligent Agents, endowed with artificial intelligence, will augment our own intelligence and will be empowered to make choices and execute actions on our behalf in cyberspace. They will act as our tutors and coaches in interactive learning and as playmates and opponents in interactive games. After dazzling the workshop attendees with the AT&T video presentation and discussion of Intelligent Agents, Dr. Shostak began an interactive workshop with the attendees. Using an electronic gadget called the "Innovator" (provided by the Wilson Learning Corporation), the workshop attendees were able to vote on which futuristic themes they wanted Dr. Shostak to discuss. Dr. Shostak introduced the workshop attendees to basic Futuristics' methodologies such as trend extrapolation, computer simulations and scenario writing. Of primary interest to the PACE conference attendees was the theme of "Work Prospects in the 21st Century". Dr. Shostak described the futuristic workplace shaped by the globalization and information revolution. The global village will be polarized into the "Information-haves" and the "Information-have-nots" equivalent to the difference between the propertied and the landless in the past of lords and serfs. The Informations-haves will live in a "Bubble of Intelligence" milieu with smart sophisticated homes, cars etc., and will be functionally cyborgized by the wearing of Artificial Intelligence gizmos. This futuristic vision has also been described by the Sci-Fi writer William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer as the "posthuman" (a technologically augmented human). Dr. Shostak gave the futuristic vision of the technologically augmented worker with palmtop-on-the wrist telecommuting (or working from anywhere) using virtual reality as a worksite tool. These knowledge workers with augmented intelligence will be extremely productive. Dr. Shostak forsees the necessity of job sharing and job splitting to counter an unemployment problem and also the emergence of new people-centered occupations and careers in the 21st century, such as Software Club Director, Leisure Consultant, Cryonics Technician, AI Technician, Certified Financial Planner, Geriatric Nurse, Oncology Nutritionist etc. Another futuristic theme of interest to the workshop attendees was "Diversity in 2010 AD: The Browning and Graying of America". With the graying of the baby boomer generation (every 7 seconds an American is turning 50 since January 1996), we are heading toward a population pyramid without precedence in human history. Products and services for old folks such as bifocals, cosmetic surgery, prosthetic devices will become hot marketing items. The global village will experience a population explosion with a projected 11 billion by 2050 AD. Much of what authoress Marge Piercy depicted in her futuristic novel "He, She and It" such as most of the population living in a vast megalopolis, biotech foods and exclusive domed enclaves for the privileged was also forcasted by Dr. Shostak. At the end of this exciting futuristic workshop, the attendees had a futuristic vision of a world rapidly changing technologically and demographically. Dr. Art Shostak can be reached at 610-668-2727 or at Internet shostaka@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Arthur B. Shostak, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Drexel University Phila., PA, 19104; 215-895-2466; fax 610-668-2727. "If you don't feel totally confused about what is going on, you're out of touch!" Tom Peters From rtnewvision@igc.apc.org Wed Oct 23 18:03:05 1996 X-Old-Sender: From: "Ray M. Tillman" Organization: NALC NEW VISION To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:48:38 +0000 Subject: Contributors Reply-to: rtnewvision@igc.apc.org Sender: rtnewvision@igc.org Let me introduce myself, my name is Ray Tillman and I am president of a local union of letter carriers in the Boulder, Colorado area. Recently, I went back to school at the University of Colorado at Denver and received by Master's Degree in Political Science. My thesis was on reform movements within the American Labor Movement. Through encouragement of some of the faculty I have submitted a proposal to teach a course on internal union politics on a part-time basis. As I was writing the proposal and listing the books that would accompany the course, I realized that not much has been written on this subject for quite sometime, except those books tailored to individual unions. With some effort in recent months to revitalize the labor movement, I thought that a more updated book should be written to coincide with the times. This book should consist of chapters devoted to the reforming and revitalization of the labor movement, i.e., union democracy, reform movements, union government, social unionism versus business unionism, centralization versus local autonomy, etc. etc. I approached the Chair of the PS department about my idea for such a project. The project would consist of union activists and academics writing a chapter on a subject that relates to unionism today, and the internal struggle to reform the labor movement. The chair was impressed with my proposal and will help my efforts in getting this book published. I have received numerous commitments from various academics as well as union activists who have written or have been involved with the union movement and reform issues over the years. However, I am looking for contributors on certain subjects, such as, worker council's, building diversity within unions, decentralization versus centralization in union governments, and union strategies that will counter corporations attempts to downsize, lockout, outsource, and move across boarders. These subjects should be based on a vision to rebuild and reform the American Labor Movement. I am not looking to make a profit from this project. I hope this project is a way to link students with the union movement. We are estimating the book to be 200 to 400 pages long. If anyone is interested in contributing a chapter to such a project, they can get in touch with me only through the following addresses. Please to not answer through the wide open labor-rap conference. I am only looking for serious union minded contributors. Ray Tillman 5720 W. 108th Ave. Westminster, CO 80020 (303) 469-1958 - Home (303) 442-8067 - Office e-mail rtnewvision@igc.apc.org From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Thu Oct 24 02:56:32 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 02:01:30 -0700 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 4A The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 4A: WORKING TIME OVER THE LIFE CYCLE This session included the following presentations: Paid Work Around the Clock: A Cross-National, Cross-Temporal Perspective by Andrew Harvey, St. Mary's University Perspectives on Working time Over the Lifecycle by Michael Wolfson and Geoff Rowe, Statistics Canada The Life Cycle of Working Time in the United States and Canada by John Owen, Wayne State University Labour Force Participation and Work Hours of Young Men and Women by Michael Ransom, Brigham Young University Early Retirement Provisions and the Labour Force Behaviour of Older Men: Evidence from Canada by Dwayne Benjamin and Michael Baker, University of Toronto Labour Market Returns to Community Colleges: Evidence for Returning Adults by Duane Leigh, Washington State University, and Andrew Gill, California State University ************************* Paid Work Around the Clock: A Cross-National, Cross-Temporal Perspective by Andrew Harvey, St. Mary's University This paper examines time use diaries as a tool for recording time allocation for work over a significant period of time (early 1970's to 1992) and compares that working time allocation in Canada, the U.S., and in some Scandinavian countries. The advantage of time use diaries is that they can accurately indicate when, where and with whom activities actually take place. In looking at the starting time of work as an indicator of shifts in work activities overall, Harvey shows a growing dispersion of work in all countries studied, corroborating earlier research in this area. He finds that the 24-hour economy has stimulated a change in the timing of work such that more work is carried on, not in the night, as one might suppose, but on the 'fringes' of so-called standard or day-time hours (9 to 5). The study raises questions as to the impacts of time dispersion on family and the work & family balance, on the regulation of work and jobs when work is occurring in non-traditional work sites (i.e. in the home), and on the satisfaction and possible career progression derived from time-shifted jobs. Perspectives on Working time Over the Lifecycle by Michael Wolfson and Geoff Rowe, Statistics Canada The new 'LifePaths' model, used in this paper, adds new complexities to traditional working life tables that have been used to model outcomes across the life cycle in that: 1) multiple exits and entries are enabled, and 2) multiple data sources can be integrated to produce a more sophisticated assessment of probable life cycle outcomes. As a key result, Wolfson and Rowe have developed a very rich analytical tool that HRDC should be able to use in producing more accurate projections of how groups of individuals will fare under differing conditions (at school, in the workforce, etc...). However, LifePaths is very new and so there were no practical examples to illustrate either its power or accuracy. Stay tuned. ************************* The Life Cycle of Working Time in the United States and Canada by John Owen, Wayne State University Using hours, earnings and labour force data from both countries, Owen pinpoints the limitations of cross-sectional analysis (i.e. underestimates decline in labour supply over time) when compared with analysis done using birth cohorts. The 'value-added' in this paper is that author compares life cycle approach findings from U.S. and Canada and highlights some interesting distinctions (40 hour work week achieved later in Canada than in U.S., female participation rates in Canada lagged behind those of U.S. women until fairly recently). ************************* Labour Force Participation and Work Hours of Young Men and Women by Michael Ransom, Brigham Young University The title of this paper is somewhat misleading as it deals with labour force participation and school attendance rates rather than work hours. The population examined is 16 and 17 year olds in the USA in March of 1980, 1985 and 1990-- months when family income and demographic data as well as labour force information are collected by the Current Population Survey (CPS) in the USA. The paper makes use both of cross-tabulations and regression analysis to test two possible models of interaction between young peoples' participation in the paid labour force and the income of their parents. The first posits that participation would decline with income because young people in affluent families would have a higher reservation wage. The second posits that participation would rise with income because patterns of residence and parental contacts would raise the market wage available to children of more affluent families. The evidence from the paper provides partial support to the second model since employment rates rise with income up to the $50,000-$75,000 family income range before declining. The paper also identifies a crossover in male and female employment rates for 16 and 17 year olds between 1980 and 1990. At the beginning of the decade male rates exceeded those of females (37.6 vs. 31.2). By 1990 female rates exceeded those of males (34.1 vs. 33.3). Employment rates for both white males and females significantly exceeded those of blacks (37.3 to 16.0 for males and 38.0 to 16.5 for females). No consistent relationship was found between rates of full-time school attendance and parental incomes, although generally attendance appears to increase with parental income. The paper appears to indicate that the market wage hypothesis is most applicable to the lower and middle ranges of the family income distribution while the reservation wage hypothesis has validity for the upper end of the distribution. ************************* Early Retirement Provisions and the Labour Force Behaviour of Older Men: Evidence from Canada by Dwayne Benjamin and Michael Baker, University of Toronto This paper takes advantage of a " natural experiment" which arose from the differently-timed decisions of the Quebec and Canada Pension Plans to make it possible for contributors to the plans to receive retirement benefits on an actuarial-adjusted basis at age 60, rather than waiting until age 65. This provision took effect in the Quebec Pension Plan in 1984 and in the Canada Pension Plan in 1987. The authors use data from a number of sources plus regression analysis to determine if the introduction of this provision led, as many expected, to more early retirement by males from the paid labour force, thus opening up positions for younger workers. The message of the paper is that by and large it did not. More older persons did begin collecting retirement pensions when the changes were introduced, both in Quebec and the rest of Canada. However, this was not associated with a widening of the employment rate gap between older males in Quebec and the rest of the country from 1984 to 1986, followed by a closing of the gap from 1987 to 1989 (the expected pattern if the policy change led older workers to leave paid work for retirement). Instead, while the gap did widen slightly from 1984 to 1986, it continued to widen after early receipt of CPP benefits became possible in 1987. Moreover, while the employment rate fell for older males in the rest of Canada after 1987, it fell less than between 1983 and 1986. The authors found evidence that some older males who had been unemployed took the pension and withdrew from the labour force, thus lowering participation rates, but opening up no new jobs. They also found that persons with limited prospects for employment, based on such factors as education level were those most likely to take their QPP or CPP retirement pension early. This is a very sophisticated and timely study of the ability of government cash transfers to lure older workers out of the labour force. It appears that the main effect of making early receipt of QPP and CPP retirement pensions possible in the 1980's was to improve the welfare of persons who already had limited attachment to, or prospects of, re-entering paid work. ************************* Labour Market Returns to Community Colleges: Evidence for Returning Adults by Duane Leigh, Washington State University, and Andrew Gill, California State University Using data from the USA National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and regression analysis, the authors tested the conclusions of a recent study by Kane and Rouse that "enrollment in a post-secondary education program increases earnings by 5 to 8 percent per year of college credits whether or not a degree is earned " (emphasis added) for experienced adult workers who return to school. The authors find positive effects of the order of those found by Kane and Rouse for continuing high school graduates for experienced adult workers aged 28 to 35 in the early 1990's in the USA. Older males in non-degree programs did even better than continuing high school graduates who entered such programs. These findings contrast favourably with the generally discouraging findings for short-term classroom training programs for displaced workers. It was noted by the discussants, however, that the displaced workers in the NLSY sample were a self-selected group who made a personal decision to take community college courses. Displaced workers induced to do so by the provision of government grants or loans might behave very differently. This is an interesting paper with hopeful findings concerning the capacity of community college courses to improve the human capital and earnings capacity of displaced workers in their late 20's and early 30's. However, the findings must be treated with some caution in terms of suggesting the subsidization of such courses for displaced workers because of the self-selected character of the sample. From cornfidb@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Thu Oct 24 16:16:38 1996 Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:16:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:16:42 -0500 (CDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu From: cornfidb@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Dan Cornfield) Subject: new labor resource book III To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu Dear Labor-rappers, At the request of a fellow labor-rapper, I present the following table of contents of R. Stern and D. Cornfield, THE US LABOR MOVEMENT: REFERENCES AND RESOURCES (NY: MACMILLAN [GK HALL], 1996; 1 800 223-2336), as per my previous e-mail messages: Foreword Acknowledgements Ch 1: A Sociology of the Labor Movement: Guide to Research and Sources Ch 2: Social Movement Theory Ch 3: Organizational Structure of the Labor Movement Ch 4: Movement Mobilization Ch 5: Labor and Politics Ch 6: Impact of the Labor Movement on Social Inequality Ch 7: Anti-Labor Countermovements Ch 8: The Labor Movement and Other Social Movements Ch 9: Data Sources and Reference Works Author Index Subject Index Best, Dan -------------------------- Dan Cornfield Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235 USA tel.: (615) 322-7535 fax: (615) 322-7505 From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Sat Oct 26 00:26:16 1996 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:38:41 -0700 (PDT) To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Help Pressure UIowa to Respect Human Rights Sender: meisenscher@igc.org Sender: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu From: Jonathan C Kissam Subject: Help Pressure UIowa to Respect Human Rights Sisters & brothers, UE-COGS, the graduate employee union at the University of Iowa, is currently in negotiations for our first contract. The Administration and the Board of Regents are refusing to agree to any "No Discrimination" Article for our contract. They want to deprive graduate employees of the right to file grievances on issues of discrimination. We have proposed the following article, which mirrors THEIR OWN stated "human rights policy" Article IV - NO DISCRIMINATION The Employer and Union agree that there shall be no discrimination because of race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, age, marital status, religious or political belief, nationality and national origin, disability, HIV/AIDS status, immigration status, or membership or non-membership in the Union with respect to the application of any provision of the Agreement Please contact the following members of the Administration/Board of Regents Negotiating Committee and tell them, to include the No Discrimination article in the contract with UE-COGS: Bob Barak, Deputy Executive Director, Board of Regents: rbarak@iastate.edu John Folkins, Associate Provost: john-folkins@uiowa.edu John Fix, College of Liberal Arts: john-fix@uiowa.edu James "Jake" Jakobsen, Assoc. Dean of the Graduate College: (319) 335-2137 It would be great & help us out a lot to have messages pouring in from campuses across the nation, to show them that refusing to even discuss a no discrimination clause is simply not acceptable in American academia. In Solidarity, Jonathan Kissam UE Local 896-COGS "The Members Run This Union" From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Sun Oct 27 21:16:28 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 21:21:16 -0800 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Changes in Working Time: Session 4B The following is excerpted from a report from the conference on Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States that occurred in June 1996 in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Employment Research Forum. A summary report of the entire conference is available on the world wide web at: http://207.81.16.12/cerfwt_e.html I have added a link to the conference web page to the TimeWork Web at: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm On November 13, 1996, 9-10 PM, CBC Radio IDEAS will present THE DISTRIBUTION OF WORK, highlighting the Changes in Working Time conference. ************************* SESSION 4B: PART-TIME AND OVER-TIME WORK This session included the following presentations: The Role of Part-Time Work in Firm Adjustment: Evidence from Micro data on Employment Durations, by Jane Friesen and Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University. The Macro Economy and the Growth of Income and employment Inequality in Australian Cities, by Robert Gregory, Australian National University. The Dynamics of Part-Time and Full-Time Labour: Evidence from Canadian Flows Data, by Jane Friesen and Dominique Gross, Simon Fraser University. What is Behind the Rise in Over-Time in Canada?, by Bob Billings, Finance Canada. ************************* The Role of Part-Time Work in Firm Adjustment: Evidence from Micro data on Employment Durations, by Jane Friesen and Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University. This paper investigates the relative stability of part-time and full-time employment in Canada. Using micro data on employment durations from the 1988-90 Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS) and a lay-off hazard model, the authors estimate the probability that employers lay off part-time and full-time workers. Included in the model is a group of covariates for the job characteristics (including industry, firm size, pension coverage, union status, the hourly wage rate and usually weekly hours), a group of covariates for workers characteristics (including age and education), and a number of non-human capital related worker characteristics such as visible minority status, household type, foreign born status, and language. They also include dummy variables to capture possible spikes in the hazard between 10 and 15 weeks duration to take account of the UI program. The main findings are that part-time jobs are not necessarily more insecure than full-time jobs for all workers in all sectors. In fact, the average part-time job appears to be more secure than the average full-time job (in terms of lay-off probabilities, temporary or permanent). One explanation for the finding that part-time jobs do not face higher probability of layoff than full-time jobs may be that the study does not capture correctly the relative cost of part-time job versus full-time jobs for employers. The study needs to control for such differences with a variable that would include, for example, the relative amount of payroll taxes and fringe benefits associated with part-time jobs vs full-time jobs. ************************* The Macro Economy and the Growth of Income and employment Inequality in Australian Cities, by Robert Gregory, Australian National University. The author utilizes Census data to emphasise changes in income distribution and employment inequality within Australian neighbourhoods over a fifteen year period 1976 to 1991. To conduct the geographical analysis, the Census data is averaged from Collection Districts (CDS) which usually contain 200-300 dwellings which are delineated by easily identifiable boundaries. Further, the analysis is confined to CDS within major urban areas with populations of more than 100,000. The geographical analysis is based on CDS ranked by socio-economic status (SES). Data on employment, unemployment, labour force participation and income are presented graphically from the poorest CD to the richest CD. The main results include: (1) there is a clear pattern indicating that the forces making for increased income inequality across Australian households exert a strong and systematic neighbourhood effect. The poorest regions have suffered the largest drop in income while the richest regions have gained the most. (2) Income distribution across neighbourhoods has widened for both men and women but in 80 per cent of neighbourhoods there were real income falls for men while for women, this was the case of only about 5 per cent of neighbourhoods. (3) The employment-population ratios are a major contributor to income variations across areas The comparison of geographical regions by socio-economic characteristics to support labour market analysis is something we may want to apply to Canadian data. ************************* The Dynamics of Part-Time and Full-Time Labour: Evidence from Canadian Flows Data, by Jane Friesen and Dominique Gross, Simon Fraser University. The authors characterize the differences between the levels and rates of hiring, lay-off and quit flows of part-time and full-time workers. They also use a five-year monthly time-series to investigate the seasonality of these flows. Finally, they estimate the relationship between each flow series and a measure of the business cycle. The data used in this paper were constructed from weighted counts of weekly transitions in the LMAS micro data. Transitions are categorized as hires, layoffs, quits, or other separations. Temporary layoffs and recalls from temporary layoffs are excluded. Regression analysis is conducted to analyse the seasonal and the business cycles characterisation of the transition flows. Together, the results confirm the common perception that part-time work is more unstable than full-time work in the aggregate. The instability is being generated on both the supply side of the market through higher quit rates and on the demand side of the market through higher lay-off rates (this conflicts with the results reported on in "The Role of Part-Time Work in Firm Adjustment). Perhaps surprisingly, the relative instability of part-time work has few distinguishing seasonal or cyclical features, except in the manufacturing sector. This finding suggests that part-time workers do not play any particular role in the adjustment of the economy to seasonal and cyclical shocks at the macro level. There is a danger of data problems with this study because of the utilisation of the LMAS to analyse layoffs and hirings. It was pointed out by Garnett Picot that layoff dates in the LMAS can be wrong from some part of the survey (at the first and last year of the survey). It was strongly advised to consult the LMAS people at Statistics Canada when conducting research using the LMAS in order to avoid data problems. ************************* What is Behind the Rise in Over-Time in Canada?, by Bob Billings, Finance Canada. The objective of the paper is to examine the potential explanations of the changes in the overtime share of total hours and present a model of overtime activity. Explanations advanced by the author include the following: firms are constrained in hiring employees by payroll taxes and fringe benefits systems; overtime used is influenced by changes in the number of workers taking time off due to illness, by changes in the mix of inputs, by the scarcity of skilled workers in the economy, etc. The paper tests these explanations in quarterly models for exporting and non-exporting manufacturers that included industry-specific explanatory variables such as the rate of change in hourly-rated and total employment, the share of total employment accounted for by hourly-rated workers, the ratio of shipments to inventories and the capacity utilization rate, and economy wide variables such as the share of the work force that lost time on the job due to illness, the federal payroll taxes as a share of total worker compensation, other supplementary labour income as a share of compensation, and the national unemployment rate. The study finds that: export-oriented industries account for virtually the entire increase in overtime; the rise in overtime is closely linked to the auto sector's shift to just-in-time production methods; a structural decline in salaried workers relative to hourly-rated production workers in the export sector also lifted employment share of workers who are more likely to work overtime; and federal payroll taxes have caused little of the rise in overtime in the export sector -- roughly 1/3 of the increase in overtime. From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Mon Oct 28 17:05:43 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:37:47 -0800 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Debate: Payroll tax ceilings and work time 2/3 I am forwarding Jon Kesselman's response to my column on payroll taxes and work hours that I sent earlier. >Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:44:31 -0800 >To: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) >From: kessel@econ.ubc.ca (Jon Kesselman) >Subject: Payroll Tax Ceilings, Employment, and Work Hours > >Dear Tom Walker > and others on Tom's circulation list: > >I read Tom's column on payroll taxes and work hours >with interest. If any of you wish to delve deeper into the >economic evidence on this point, you may refer to my >recent discussion paper on "Economic Issues of >General Payroll Taxes." A couple of sections in the >paper, on both theoretical background and empirical >evidence, investigate the relationship between payroll >tax insurable (taxable) ceilings and potential effects on >employment and hours of work per employee. In fact, >the theory on this point is ambiguous (because of the >existence of scale effects as well as substitution effects, >or profit maximization as well as cost minimization in >the behaviour of firms; >see several cited articles by Bob Hart and others). The >very limited empirical literature investigating this point >also offers mixed findings (see my paper for citations). >In short, despite the rhetoric on the point of payroll >tax ceilings and adverse employment effects, there is in >fact little solid evidence to support this point or the >related policy concern or alleged cure for the problem. >My paper can be found at: >http://web.arts.ubc.ca/econ/cresppap.htm#1996 >This web page has a listing of discussion papers of the >UBC Centre for Research on Economic and Social Policy, >and if you scroll down to DP-41 (the last entry), you will >find the paper with a link that will download the entire >paper in pdf format, which can be read with Adobe >Acrobat Exchange. This is the first in the CRESP discussion >paper series available for easy downloading in this fashion, >and we intend to release all future papers in this manner. >For anyone interested in the full monograph on payroll >taxes, I expect it to be published some time in the first >half of 1997 by the Canadian Tax Foundation. (Chapter >7 of that monograph will contain further discussion of the >relation between payroll tax ceilings and employment >and work hours, but I am not planning to release that >chapter as a discussion paper prior to the monograph.) >Regards, Jon K. > >******************************** > Professor Jon Kesselman > Centre for Research on Economic > and Social Policy > c/o Department of Economics > University of British Columbia > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Canada > Voice 604-822-5608 > Fax 604-822-5915 >******************************* > > > Regards, Tom Walker, knowware@mindlink.bc.ca, (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Mon Oct 28 17:06:22 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:37:50 -0800 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Debate: Payroll tax ceilings and work time 3/3 Jon, Thanks very much for responding to my column. I heartily agree with you about the dirth of conclusive empirical evidence -- one way or the other -- on the payroll tax ceiling, employment and hours of work question. My opening paragraph alludes to the paradox that nobody seems too eager to measure the damage. This may be one case where the 'lack of evidence' is more an indictment of the investigators than a measure of innocence. What we do know is that the proportion of jobs with long hours of work are increasing in Canada and the proportion of jobs with hours around the 40 hour standard is decreasing. We know that the use of overtime has been increasing even in the face of high unemployment. We also know that the relative bite of payroll taxes has been growing over the past twenty years. And we know that jobs with incomes above the average industrial wage cost employers a total of $6-7 billion less than they would if they were taxed at the same rate as lower income jobs, just for federal payroll taxes. Is anyone claiming that a tax break of that magnitude is unlikely to have an effect? I'm glad that you brought up the issue of rhetoric ("In short, despite the rhetoric on the point of payroll tax ceilings and adverse employment effects, there is in fact little solid evidence...") because I see this issue as one of competing rhetorics and not a simple matter of formal proof. As Giandomenico Majone (_Evidence, Argument & Persuasion in the Policy Process_) pointed out, policy arguments cannot be reduced to questions of empirical evidence because they fundamentally rely on a "shared understanding of the issue under discussion": "The starting point of a dialectic [policy] argument is not abstract assumptions but points of view already present in the community; its conclusion is not a formal proof, but a shared understanding of the issue under discussion; and while scientific disciplines are specialized forms of knowledge, available only to the experts, dialectic can be used by everyone since, as Aristotle put it we all have occasion to criticize or defend an argument." "For the Greeks dialectic had three main uses. First, as a method of critical inquiry into the foundations and assumptions of the various specialized disciplines. Second, as a technique for arguing in favor of one's own opinions and a procedure for clarifying controversial issues. Finally, as an educational process that transforms the common man into an informed citizen and the specialist into a person able to communicate with his fellow citizens." Regards, Tom Walker, knowware@mindlink.bc.ca, (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm From knowware@mindlink.bc.ca Mon Oct 28 17:09:08 1996 by web20.mindlink.net with smtp Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:37:41 -0800 To: swt-digest@di.com, futurework@csf.colorado.edu, canfutures@chatsubo.com, LABOR-L@YORKU.CA, labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: knowware@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Walker) Subject: Debate: Payroll tax ceilings and work time 1/3 Friday's Vancouver Sun (page A23) published my opinion piece questioning the role of payroll tax ceilings in promoting overtime work and inhibiting job creation. In the next message, Jon Kesselman of UBC Centre for Research on Economic and Social Policy responds to my column. The third posting is my reply to Kesselman. Here's the text: Last week's visit to our province by Jeremy (The End of Work) Rifkin was a reminder, for me, that we Canadians are not asking the right questions about job-creation because we have excluded a major job-killer as a critical consideration in our inquiries. Simply put, the payroll taxes that pay for Canada's major income security programs offer a tax break to employers who choose to use overtime instead of creating jobs. Nobody in our federal government seems to be asking "why?" or even insisting on an accurate count of the casualties. The growing use of overtime by employers directs work away from those who most need a working life and the income work provides -- Canada's unemployed. And this, I believe, has created a malignant policy spiral: regressive taxation creates income inequality and unemployment, which drives up social program costs, which -- in turn -- creates a need for yet higher, and often more regressive, taxes. Contributions to the federal income-security programs - by both employer and employee - stop once an employee's income reaches a certain level, called a 'contributions ceiling'. So, yes, the government is right to consider ceilings a break for middle-income earners. But employers' contributions also stop at the same (employee) income ceiling. Earnings above the ceiling are payroll tax free for employers as well as for employees. When the resulting payroll tax savings are added to savings on other non-wage labor costs -- such as training costs, medical premiums and private pensions -- it is cheaper for an employer to put an existing employee on overtime than to hire a new employee to do the work that must be done. Here's how the 1994 report of the federal government's Advisory Group on Working Time and the Distribution of Work put it: "Three factors underlie business decisions to require people to work long hours: The fixed cost of hiring an additional person such as recruitment costs, training costs, and benefit packages . . . Paid time-off is the largest component [of fixed costs], especially vacation time; Employer-sponsored pension and related plans ... are the next largest component;... legislated payroll taxes for unemployment insurance, provincial health care, workers compensation and the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan [are third]." It's not a recent discovery that Canada's social programs place a disproportionate burden on lower-middle income earners. In 1974, Kenneth Bryden, commented on the tax structure of the CPP in OldAge Pensions and Policy Making: "...with the expansion of the public pension programs, the market ethos provided a rationalization from new taxes or increases in old taxes which added significant elements of regressivity to the tax structure. The real effect of these tax changes has been that those in the lower-middle-income range and below have been required to assume a disproportionate share of the burden of income maintenance for those who have been reduced by age to the bottom of the income scale." In its 1993 White Paper on Employment, the European Commission suggested that, in some countries in Europe -- where social-security payroll taxes are, admittedly, quite a bit higher than in Canada -- a reduction of 30 to 40 per cent in non-wage costs for low- wage earners could reduce the unemployment rate by two percentage points. But, in Canada, instead of acting to cut non-wage costs for low wage earners, recent changes have increased these costs at the low-wage end and lowered them for higher income earners. Recent changes to (un)employment insurance extend benefits to people working less than 15 hours a week, but they do so by charging premiums on a hourly, rather than weekly, basis. Presumably, this will add more lower-income workers to the tax base. Whether many of these part-timers will ever qualify for benefits is questionable. At the same time, a bill accompanying the new employment-insurance plan lowers the maximum.insurable earnings level from $42,380 to $39,000 and freezes it at this level until the year 2000. The purpose of this change is to bring the maximum closer in line with the average industrial wage. The unintended effect may be to add just a bit more incentive for employers to use overtime. When he was in Vancouver, Jeremy Rifkin talked about a French government plan to fight unemployment by shortening work hours. The government promises to cut payroll taxes for employers who voluntarily go along with the plan. In Canada, we have a plan that does just the opposite -- it subsidizes employers to lengthen work hours and thereby create unemployment. The march of folly winds its way through all times, all places. When the Americans were in Vietnam, policy makers based their choices on the certainty that the U.S. would win the war, was winning the war and had to win the war. The evidence consistently showed otherwise, but that was never allowed to sway the basic premise of policy-making - the alternative was simply unthinkable. Today, Canada's social programs are being reformed on the premise that market principles are pre-eminent, will be pre-eminent and must be pre-eminent. If unemployment is high, so the reasoning goes, it's because the market dictates that it must be so. If work hours are getting longer, again it's just the market that requires longer hours. There is only one thing wrong with this premise - the evidence shows otherwise. Regards, Tom Walker, knowware@mindlink.bc.ca, (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm From sscipe1@icarus.cc.uic.edu Mon Oct 28 18:40:44 1996 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:40:22 -0600 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: sscipe1@icarus.cc.uic.edu (Kim Scipes) Subject: New book on alternative unionism of 1930s Dear Folks-- The University of Illinois Press has just published a fascinating new collection, edited by Staughton Lynd, called 'WE ARE ALL LEADERS": THE ALTERNATIVE UNIONISM OF THE EARLY 1930s. This is an excellent collection of articles on this subject, and it is provocative because it challenges the myth of the CIO as a radical labor movement. As Lynd writes in his introduction: "We propose that the CIO FROM THE BEGINNING intended a top-down, so-called responsible unionism that would prevent strikes and control the rank and file" (pp. 7-8). To make their claim, there are studies of the labor movement (mostly) in the early-mid 1930s from various areas across the US. These include a study of an African-American female-led nutpickers union around St. Louis (by Rosemary Feurer); the Independent Union of All Workers of Austin, MN (Peter Rachleff, from his HARD-TIMES IN THE HEARTLAND); Southern textile workers and the 1934 general textile strike (Janet Irons), the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the CIO (Mark Naison), the struggle for a labor party in 1934-36 (Eric Davin), Minneapolis female garment workers (Elizabeth Faue), anthracite miners that expropriated corporate property between 1930-41 in Pennsylvania (Michael Kozura); community-based solidarity unionism in Barberton, OH (John Borsos); and seamen in the Pacific during World War II and then reflections on the 1946 Oakland General Strike (Stan Weir). I have just consumed the book, and in my opinion, there is not a weak article among them. This book is available from the UI Press at a toll -free number for the US only: 1-800-545-4703. If you are in Maryland (the Press' mailing address is in Baltimore) or Canada, you can call 410/516-6927. Paperback is $17.95, and cloth is $44.95. I think that if you are interested in labor, you would find this a very stimulating book. I think it will provide for a great deal of discussion, debate and good 'ol controversy, because this book obviously has a very contemporary target: "... AFL-CIO buesiness unionism does not meet the needs of working people at the end of the twentieth century. A qualitatively different unionism is needed" (p. 2). This collection is another attempt by historians to learn from the past so we can use it in the present while we build for the future. From delgado@orion.oac.uci.edu Tue Oct 29 07:52:39 1996 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:52:41 -0800 (PST) From: Hector Delgado To: LABOR-RAP Subject: Call for papers To whom it may concern: About a month ago I put in a call for papers for a session on the unionization of immigrant workers focussing on the organization of and/or by women. If this is an area in which you are conducting research or if you know of someone who is, please let me know. The Pacific Sociological Association Meeting will be in San Diego, April 17-20, 1997. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and I (Hector L. Delgado) are the organizers of the session. Thanks. Hope to hear from you. Hector L. Delgado From wkramer@ucla.edu Wed Oct 30 19:19:13 1996 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:51:45 -0800 To: wkramer@rho.ben2.ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: Rally in Westwood Friday Nov 1 at 11 AM RALLY AGAINST THREATS AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE OF PRICE PFISTER WORKERS Friday Nov. 1, 11 AM Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd (at Sepulveda) Price Pfister, a faucet manufacturer located in Pacoima, has layed off workers over 300 workers in the last year in order to shift production to Mexico as a way to increase their profits. The approximately 1000 mostly Latino workers, who are members of the Teamsters Union, have been fighting back for justice and fair treatment. They have organized a number of rallies at the plant and a bus load recently caravaned to LA where they spoke before the City Council. Their demands are simple: an end to the layoff and shifting of jobs to Mexico fair severance for those already layed off, and the right to participate in the talks that have been taking place between the company and the city to try to keep production in California Price Pfister management has responded by holding captive audience meetings with workers where they threaten that the rate of layoffs will accelerate if the protests continue. They have also been videotaping the rallies to identify participants. THESE THREATS OF LAYOFFS AND ACTS OF SURVEILLANCE ARE ILLEGAL. At this rally, workers and their supporters will file charges against the company at the National Labor Relations Board office in Westwood and hold a press conference to inform the public about the companies irresponsible and illegal behavior. From wkramer@ucla.edu Thu Oct 31 10:39:20 1996 Received: from rho.ben2.ucla.edu (rho.ben2.ucla.edu [164.67.131.31]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id KAA27379 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:39:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from ts16-14.wla.ts.ucla.edu ([164.67.20.91]) by rho.ben2.ucla.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id JAA15642; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:26:35 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:26:35 -0800 Message-Id: <199610311726.JAA15642@rho.ben2.ucla.edu> X-Sender: wkramer@pop.ben2.ucla.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wkramer@ucla.edu From: William Kramer Subject: Help Carey Beat the Mob !! We need you help, and Ron Carey needs your help. Ron Carey, the current president of the Teamsters who won in the first rank and file election in 1991, is facing an election challenge from Jimmy Hoffa, Jr the son of the original Hoffa. The election, which will be held in the middle of November, is quite close, mostly because Hoffa has tons of money that he is spending to send written materials and videos to members homes. Hoffa is planning to spend $2-3 million in the last several weeks of the election alone! A victory by Hoffa would be a real setback for the Teamsters ( who are the largest union in the US) and for the whole labor movement. If Hoffa wins it means a return to the corrupt old days of the Teamsters. It also means an end to all of the great things that Ron Carey has done over the last five years including: cleaning up corruption creating an organizing department reversing membership declines fo the first times in decades focusing on organizing women and people of color taking progressive positions on political issues partnerships with the United Farm Workers to organize strawberry and apple workers In short, Ron Carey has turned the Teamsters into one of the most progressive unions in the AFL-CIO. We cannot let those gains be reversed. So here is how you can help. Over the next several weeks I will be organizing trips to visit plants at shifts changes to hand out Carey materials. The first trip is scheduled for Friday November 1. We will go out bright and early in the morning (from 5-8 AM) to talk to workers in the downtown/ East LA area when they arrive at their plants. WE ESPECIALLY NEED SPANISH SPEAKING VOLUNTEERS SINCE SOME OF THE WORKERS AT THE PRODUCE MARKET AND OTHER DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS WE ARE TARGETTING ARE MONOLINGUAL SPANISH SPEAKERS. Transportation is available. We will also be doing another early morning run on Monday November 4 and on Friday November 8 from 5-8. Please let me know if you can make either of these times, or if you can't make these time but could help next time. I know the times seem dreadfully early but Ron Carey does not have the big bucks that Junior Hoffa has... he needs the support of grassroots activists !!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X William Kramer X X UCLA LAMAP Coordinator X X 1001 Gayley--2nd Floor X X Los Angeles, CA 90024 X X 310-794-0698 X X 310-794-8017 fax X X wkramer@ucla.edu X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Thu Oct 31 22:37:04 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (igc7.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.35]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id WAA17575 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 22:37:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from igc3.igc.apc.org (igc3.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.33]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01867 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 19:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp4-28.igc.org (meisenscher@ppp4-28.igc.org [198.94.4.28]) by igc3.igc.apc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04741; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 19:25:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 19:25:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19961031191643.2ecf63d0@pop.igc.org> X-Sender: meisenscher@pop.igc.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu, Labor Research and Action Project From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Re: Help Carey Beat the Mob !! Sender: meisenscher@igc.org One point Brother Kramer failed to mention concerning Carey's role and what his defeat would mean is the contribution the Teamsters have made under his leadership toward the transformation of the AFL-CIO and election of Sweeney. It is highly doubtful that Sweeney would have run or could have won if the Teamsters had lined up with Donahue and Kirkland. There is little doubt that Hoffa will be unlikely to continue playing the role that Carey has in the General Executive Council of the AFL-CIO. Carey's defeat would dramatically affect the pace and prospects for further revitalization given the number of votes the Teamsters cast (based on per capita payments) in GEC meetings. At 09:26 AM 10/31/96 -0800, William Kramer wrote: >We need you help, and Ron Carey needs your help. > >Ron Carey, the current president of the Teamsters who won in the first rank >and file election in 1991, is facing an election challenge from Jimmy Hoffa, >Jr the son of the original Hoffa. The election, which will be held in the >middle of November, is quite close, mostly because Hoffa has tons of money >that he is spending to send written materials and videos to members homes. >Hoffa is planning to spend $2-3 million in the last several weeks of the >election alone! >A victory by Hoffa would be a real setback for the Teamsters ( who are the >largest union in the US) and for the whole labor movement. If Hoffa wins it >means a return to the corrupt old days of the Teamsters. It also means an >end to all of the great things that Ron Carey has done over the last five >years including: > cleaning up corruption > creating an organizing department > reversing membership declines fo the first times in decades > focusing on organizing women and people of color > taking progressive positions on political issues > partnerships with the United Farm Workers to organize strawberry and >apple workers > >In short, Ron Carey has turned the Teamsters into one of the most >progressive unions in the AFL-CIO. We cannot let those gains be reversed. > >So here is how you can help. Over the next several weeks I will be >organizing trips to visit plants at shifts changes to hand out Carey materials. > >The first trip is scheduled for Friday November 1. We will go out bright and >early in the morning (from 5-8 AM) to talk to workers in the downtown/ East >LA area when they arrive at their plants. WE ESPECIALLY NEED SPANISH >SPEAKING VOLUNTEERS SINCE SOME OF THE WORKERS AT THE PRODUCE MARKET AND >OTHER DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS WE ARE TARGETTING ARE MONOLINGUAL SPANISH SPEAKERS. > >Transportation is available. > >We will also be doing another early morning run on Monday November 4 and on >Friday November 8 from 5-8. > >Please let me know if you can make either of these times, or if you can't >make these time but could help next time. > >I know the times seem dreadfully early but Ron Carey does not have the big >bucks that Junior Hoffa has... he needs the support of grassroots activists !!!! > > >XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >X William Kramer X >X UCLA LAMAP Coordinator X >X 1001 Gayley--2nd Floor X >X Los Angeles, CA 90024 X >X 310-794-0698 X >X 310-794-8017 fax X >X wkramer@ucla.edu X >XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > Michael Eisenscher Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program Univ. of MA-Boston 391 Adams Street Oakland, CA 94610-3131 Phone: (510) 893-8382 (voice/fax) E-Mail: meisenscher@igc.apc.org