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33226 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I've argued the anti-organizational position, >which relies more on the type of social networking that has provided the >means by which the "anti-globalization" movement has become successful. But there are lots of organizations involved in this movement - it's not just a bunch of freewheeling anarchists stylishly dressed and spontaneously combusting. There are good and bad NGOs, unions, parties, churches, all kinds of groups. What's remarkable is how they've co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 13:42:24 PDT 2001

33227 US economy may have bottomed out -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Does this mean that the U.S. economy may have bottomed out and may not have ? Yup, that's just what it means. I don't know which it is, and neither does anyone else. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 13:39:41 PDT 2001

33228 UAW losses in 2000 -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >A rapid loss in density of this magnitude requires some explanation. This has >not been a period of downturn for the auto industry, so one could not imagine >a significant loss of existing membership. Indeed, insofar as production in >union represented corporations like GM, Ford and Chrysler picked up, there >would be a net gain in membership in them. And that still is the majority of >the industry. So you would have to have a pretty phenomenal incre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 13:32:13 PDT 2001

33229 AFL-CIO on debt -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] >From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) >To: "Lbo-Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>, "PEN-L" <PEN-L at galaxy.csuchico.edu> >Subject: FW: AFL-CIO calls for 100% debt cancellation, not >conditioned on structural adjustment >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:48:57 +0100 >Message-ID: <NFBBICFMIKGPJNEEGOLOCEMFCBAA.sawicky at epinet.org> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 11:54:42 PDT 2001

33230 right on FBI -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 30, 2001 Great Society II By Kate O'Beirne and Ramesh Ponnuru. Mrs. O'Beirne is Washington editor, and Mr. Ponnuru a senior editor, of National Review. President Bush's faith-based initiative is meant to encourage the charitable efforts of private groups, including religious ones -- in his words, to "rally the armies of compassion" to help the poor and needy. And it has certainly stirred up lively debate. Left-wing secularist critics see the initiative as a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 10:43:05 PDT 2001

33231 free-speech on rightwing campuses -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Eduation - web daily - April 30, 2001 Most Newspapers on Conservative Campuses Reject Ad Supporting Abortion By ALEX P. KELLOGG An academic skeptical of the conservative critic David Horowitz, who has accused the country's leading liberal universities of being aggressively hostile to open dialogue and free speech, says he has proved that conservative colleges are no better. When the professor asked student newspapers at Bob Jones University and 10 other campuses to run an adv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 10:17:01 PDT 2001

33232 US economy may have bottomed out -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I don't know what the pollsters mean by 'consumer sentiment', Consumer sentiment (UMich) and consumer confidence (Conference Board) are composite indexes, based on a bunch of questions about the economy, the job market, buying plans, etc., both evaluations of the present and expectations for the next 6-12 months. They correlate quite tightly, usually with a short lead time, with broad economic trends. >And what does it mean to say: "Only a few industries, like >t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 10:08:40 PDT 2001

33233 UAW losses in 2000 -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: [numbers on U.S. auto employment snipped] In 1998, UAW membership - which includes the non-auto workers - equaled 84% of total U.S. auto employment. In 1999, it was 75%. In 2000, 68%. That's a pretty disastrous and sudden slide in density. >Moreover, even the UAW (well, at least their organizers) doesn't believe >that they've lost membership due to globalization and capital intensive >production . Yup. A union educator who does lots of work with the UAW once told me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 09:40:03 PDT 2001

33234 Fire at The Baffler office -- rank: 1000

[Give generously!!!] Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:38:47 +0800 From: The Baffler Magazine <fire at thebaffler.com> Dear Friend of The Baffler: On the morning of April 25th, our office and the unique building in which it was housed were destroyed in a fire. In addition to the Baffler office, the building was home to a close community of artists, writers, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses. No one was injured in the fire, but the physical damage was extensive. Worse, however, was the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 08:56:07 PDT 2001

33235 teachers: not what they used to be -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Insofar as the public sector is less productive, >efficiency dictates a shift of resources, but this >assumes the pre-existing level of resources was >efficient to begin with and abstracts from how >income growth might affect preferences for this >or that. > >Baumol's story could be used to defend increased >public sector costs. It boils down to, look, if >you want your kid to have the same math teacher >you had, you have to recognize the old ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 08:39:32 PDT 2001

33236 EPI conference -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:55:01 -0400 [Note the RSVP addresses are not the s ame as mine.] Dear Colleague, We invite you to participate in a day long event to consider research on union organizing, including employer, employee and union strategies, conduct and practices as well as how the law and its administration affects workersí rights to organize. The meeting will take place in Washington D.C. on June ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 30 08:40:22 PDT 2001

33237 teachers: not what they used to be -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >William Baumol explained the rise in the relative >price of public services with this reasoning decades >ago. It is logical for the public sector to switch >from more- to less-skilled workers in this context, >abstracting from other things. There is no necessarily >negative political connotation. Yeah, Baumol's disease. Teaching isn't subject to Moore's law and all that. But there's plenty of political connotation to it. If we follow market logic, resource ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 29 12:27:36 PDT 2001

33238 teachers: not what they used to be -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote: >How much of this is the outward expression of the fact that teachers still >get paid much as they were a generation ago when they were women who >couldn't get into better paying professions? How much of this "decline" in >the quality of teachers is the result of feminism's having opened those >door? You're not thinking like an economist. If teachers' relative pay has declined, it can only be because their productivity has also declined. ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 29 11:16:18 PDT 2001

33239 teachers: not what they used to be -- rank: 1000

[News for all you teachers out there - you're just a bunch of losers!] <http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8263> The Declining Quality of Teachers Darius Lakdawalla NBER Working Paper No. W8263 Issued in April 2001 ---- Abstract ----- Concern is often voiced about the declining quality of American schoolteachers. This paper shows that, while the relative quality of teachers is declining, this decline is a result of technical change, which improves the specialized knowledge of skilled workers o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 29 10:11:18 PDT 2001

33240 UAW losses in 2000 -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes: > >>They should tie Yokich's base pay to membership growth; that'd be a >>spur to organizing. > >Heh heh, funny. In all seriousness, though, every union should do what the >UE does and has always done: no officer gets paid more than the highest-paid >rank-and-file member. Not that that's a spur for growth: the UE has been >shrinking, too. But it would set a much better tone for the entire la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 28 14:11:34 PDT 2001