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34426 jobs -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher. Organize janitors, and earn wages at the 95th percentile!] Local 32BJ SEIU in New York City is looking for 4 lead organizers and 3 organizing coordinators. Leads pay $55,000 to $65,000 per year and Coordinators $65,000-$75,000 plus good benefits. Local 32BJ has 55,000 thousand members in the building service industry, both commercial and residential. They represent a very diverse membership in jobs such as janitors, doormen, porters, crafts workers, superintendents. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 16:21:34 PDT 2000

34427 Mencken on newspapers -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >What does he have against janitors? Mencken? He was a snob. A funny snob, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 16:18:51 PDT 2000

34428 Annalee on Clit Pumps -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >that's why this list is lovingly called, Left Boner Onanists or Left >Bonehead Onanists. ...or as someone once said, the Lewd Business Observer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 14:12:34 PDT 2000

34429 the Ron Brown Award -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 18, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT When I called on the business community in 1996 to work with the Administration to develop a new Presidential award for corporate citizenship, the response was immediate and enthusiastic. The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership is now a preeminent corporate citizenship award ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 13:42:24 PDT 2000

34430 yum! faster food!! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Yeah, I saw this article. What a bleak, compulsive, joyless culture >this is. BTW, anybody have any idea why Dave Thomas, that weirdly >afflectless turd who founded Wendy's, is so popular as a TV pitchman? Dunno, but didn't he say a year or two ago that he was against Food Stamps? If you don't work you shouldn't eat, he said, if I'm remembering right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 13:31:45 PDT 2000

34431 yum! faster food!! -- rank: 1000

[who said Taylorism is dead?] Wall Street Journal - May 18, 2000 An Efficiency Drive: Fast-Food Lanes, Equipped With Timers, Get Even Faster By JENNIFER ORDONEZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DARIEN, Ill. -- "HimayItakeyourorderplease?" says the drive-through greeter at Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers. This greeting takes only one second -- a triumphant two seconds faster than is suggested in Wendy's guidelines -- and the speed of it was clocked by a high-tech timer install ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 12:59:01 PDT 2000

34432 Henwood & Employment #s. -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Scott in re: Henwood on job losses. > >mbs > > >Here's one basic argument that needs to be made. Its foolish to look at >mfg. employment changes since 1993 or 1994. That was the bottom of a >recession. The bottom of the recession was March 1991. The employment trough overall was February 1992. > The US has lost more than 1.1 million mfg. jobs since the >last cyclical peak in 1989, as shown in the attached table from the BLS. Here are some int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 12:18:54 PDT 2000

34433 UN: US uses torture -- rank: 1000

New York Times - May 18, 2000 Geneva Panel Says U.S. Prisoner Restraints Amount to Torture By ELIZABETH OLSON GENEVA, May 17 -- Use of electric stun belts and restraint chairs, which human rights groups say is widespread in the United States, almost inevitably violates the international treaty against torture, according to a United Nations monitoring group. The United Nations Committee Against Torture, which examines compliance of 118 countries that have ratified the 1984 pact, also cited as pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 11:54:27 PDT 2000

34434 FW: FW: Clintonoids Serve Up Mud Pie Analysis -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The good news on wages, black >unemployment, poverty, etc. in the last few years is due to the strong >economic growth and low overall unemployment, as emphasized by Jamie >Galbraith, Larry-Jared-John, etc. It is not a result of NAFTA. Who said they were? I said that the dire predictions about what NAFTA would do to the U.S. economy never came true. I think the folks who made those claims should at least rethink why they never came true. Or explain just why we sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 11:19:08 PDT 2000

34435 family budgets -- rank: 1000

[From the Economic Policy Institute's what's new bulletin.] "How Much Is Enough? Basic Family Budgets for Working Families" by Jared Bernstein, Chauna Brocht, and Maggie Spade-Aguilar EPI's latest book provides a detailed analysis of the food, housing, health care, clothing, child care, and transportation cost estimates used in determining a "basic family budget" necessary for a modest standard of living. The book also identifies the best practices from the existing literatur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 10:07:25 PDT 2000

34436 Fwd: AIDS in Africa -- rank: 1000

[maybe someday I'll be cured of my Jude Wanniski fascination...] Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:44:02 -0400 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: jwanniski at polyconomics.com (Jude Wanniski) Please take a look at my website memo today, to UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, about the AIDs plague in Africa. About 15 years ago, I made the argument to Alan Greenspan, at an economic conference in Beaver Creek, Col., that the policies of the IMF/World Bank were driving the African economies into a pre-civi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 10:02:08 PDT 2000

34437 Dialecticizer -- rank: 1000

[The intro to Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter, translated into Redneck, courtesy of The Dialectizer <http://rinkworks.com/dialect/>.] Whut in tarnation ah w'd propose in place of these corncepshuns of cornstruckshun is a return t'th' noshun of matter, not as site o' surface, but as a process of materializashun thet stabilizes on over time t'prodooce th' effeck of boun'ary, fixity, an' surface we call matter. Thet matter is allus materialized has, ah reckon, t'be thunk in relashun t'th' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 09:54:43 PDT 2000

34438 Mencken on newspapers -- rank: 1000

[the daily quotation from today's Progressive Review] "The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer." -- HL Mencken

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 09:40:16 PDT 2000

34439 ILWU on China -- rank: 1000

[Bounced bec of an attachment. Nitpick: I'm not of Chinese descent and I found the chopstick remark distressing.] Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:29:27 -1000 From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> Subject: ILWU On China Recalling my appeal to would be maligners of the labor movement as a monolithic arm of US foreign policy..... Steve Subject: ILWU Position on China Trade International Longshore and Warehouse Union Thirty-first International Convention Portland, Oregon May 1 - 5, 2000 Re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 18 09:36:06 PDT 2000

34440 FW: FW: Clintonoids Serve Up Mud Pie Analysis -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Ah. Here's a clue: > ><http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/pubs/feds/1999/199957/199957abs.html>. > >>Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing >>Marcello Estevao and Saul Lach >>1999-57 From the paper: >Finally, while a simple analysis of the reported manufacturing >payroll employment data would suggest that the expansionary period >between 1992 and 1997 generated only about 550,000 manufacturing >jobs, the inclusion o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 17 15:26:01 PDT 2000