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39466 union champagne! -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] Union-label Champagne for the new Millennium now available! The United Farm Workers has just signed a new agreement for the vineyard firm that harvests for a famed French Champagne, Luis Roederer. Workers at the 580-acre Anderson Vineyards based in Philo, Calif. harvest grapes for Roederer Estate Winery. Roederer Estate produces high quailty California Champagnes. Under the one-year union contract, the company's 100 vineyard workers won a 2% pay increase--to a $6.35 an h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 11:58:52 PST 1999

39467 contingency -- rank: 1000

[Further evidence that the role of "contingent" work in the U.S. is greatly exaggerated...] <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nws.htm> Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements, February 1999 Internet address: http://stats.bls.gov/newsrels.htm Technical information: (202) 691-6378 USDL 99-362 For release: 10:00 A.M. EST Media contact: 691-5902 Tuesday, December 21, 1999 CONTINGENT AND ALTERNATIVE EMPLOYMENT ARRANGEMENTS, FEBRUARY 1999 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 08:27:45 PST 1999

39468 Fwd: [PEN-L:14846] BLS Daily Report -- rank: 1000

> BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1999: > > Today's News Release: "Contingent and Alternative Employment > Arrangements, February 1999" indicates that the proportion of U.S. workers > holding contingent jobs was about unchanged between February 1997 and > February 1999. Contingent workers are persons who hold jobs that are > temporary or not expected to last. Using three alternative measures, > contingent workers comprised 1.9 to 4.3 percent of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 08:22:06 PST 1999

39469 You gotta be cruel to be Keynes -- rank: 1000

Mattcapri at aol.com wrote: >Anyway, not having read Christian Parenti's new book which I am told deals >with this very question I am interested in how people feel abou the term >"Prison Industrial Complex." Christian is pretty skeptical about this PIC. He argues the sector is much smaller than people think, much more trouble to wardens and managers, and rarely profitable. When I talked with him about it, good Marxist that he is, he agreed that you just can't beat "free&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 08:17:38 PST 1999

39470 Migration, Etc. (was Re: Wen Ho Lee Support) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'll go further out on a limb, from your standpoint, to say >I don't think "internationalism" is the foremost issue for >organizing right now. Really? Aren't immigrant workers a major target of union organizing, and isn't internationalism essential to the task? And shouldn't solidarity with Mexican autoworkers be pretty damn close to the top of the UAW's priority list, for the most crassly economistic reasons? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 08:17:38 PST 1999

39471 Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Henry Liu had the better side of the arguments he was in. You will concede he was just a bit over the top in his admiration of Hitler's economic policies, won't you? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 22 08:17:38 PST 1999

39472 More from the sucksters -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:23:20 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at ee.cornell.edu> Since Peter K. brought it up, here's my response to Tim Cavanaugh, and his reply; if my understanding of US economic history is dramatically wrong, I'd appreciate a corrective. Enrique Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 05:28:24 -0800 From: tim cavanaugh <tim at simpleton.com> Subject: Re: Clues References: <384D53D7.FE3A255B at ee.cornell.edu> <384F141A.457EAE0A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 20:42:24 PST 1999

39473 Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Roughly speaking , labor was demanding, improvement of labor >standards, etc., in developing countries. The fuller demand would >have been "raise their wages, don't lower ours". Which is pretty much what it was. I'll agree that there's more rhetorical than practical commitment to this agenda coming from most U.S. unions, but as I keep saying, this is some progress. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 13:04:58 PST 1999

39474 Russia: macho logic, a Pinochet solution? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 21, 1999 RUSSIA: Pro-Kremlin parties strong in polls Voters flocked to rightwing factions combining strong leadership and more arrogance towards the west. John Thornhill explains There was no disguising the Kremlin's delight yesterday when the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections were unveiled. "Russia has just experienced a peaceful revolution," crowed Igor Shabdurasulov, deputy head of the presidential administration. "This is a colossal breakth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 13:43:55 PST 1999

39475 Migration, Etc. (was Re: Wen Ho Lee Support) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yes. The question is how we move forward from the 50% position. A good >topic for LBO-talk, no? Yup, an excellent one. Much better than hurling insults at each other. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 12:58:43 PST 1999

39476 Philippine statement on WTO -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile a voice from far away...] THE WTO DEBACLE IN SEATTLE (A Unity Statement of Philippine social movements, labor groups, people's organizations and NGOs) December 10, 1999 Manila, Philippines The Seattle events are a confluence of two politically significant factors: the massive and popular street protests that denounced the WTO and the whole "free trade" dogma; and the disunities and contradictions within the WTO itself that eventually led to the collapse of the trade talks. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 12:49:21 PST 1999

39477 Migration, Etc. (was Re: Wen Ho Lee Support) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Peter K asked > > Rakesh, what do you think the > >anarchists, the Ruckus Society, the campus anti-sweatshop organizers, the > >Lesbian Avengers and the environmentalists think of Buchanan? > >My concern is not with all these cute people but with Hoffa, Sweeney etc >whose practical politics and priorities dovetail with Buchanan's. Gee, did Sweeney endorse Buchanan's call for a lifting of all U.S. economic sanctions? Isn't this just a bit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 12:45:48 PST 1999

39478 Migration, Etc. (was Re: Wen Ho Lee Support) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Steelworkers and other mass production workers were once predominantly new >immigrants, no? (In fact, the ratio of the foreign-born to the native-born >workers was much higher in the early decades of this century than now.) >But the unions organized them anyway. That's the spirit we need. Lots of unionists agree with you, or profess to agree with you. The AFL-CIO didn't make Linda Chavez-Thompson secretary-treasurer for nothing. They're not 100% troglodytes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 12:15:47 PST 1999

39479 Barkley on WTO, etc -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Of course you haven't rejected radical macro arguments in theory. However, >it is clear that no one is listening to you, leading you, EPI, and post >keynesian AFL-CIO types to get in bed with Buchananites since aggressive >trade nationalism is the only respectable politically viable way of dealing >with real, as opposed to official, unemployment. You have info on the sleeping habits of "AFL-CIO types"? Rakesh, I'm curious about something. The Old ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 21 12:10:55 PST 1999

39480 Wen Ho Lee Support -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >But, Doug, you said in a excited post shortly after returning from Seattle >that you had nothing but unequivocal praise for Dolan and the other >Naderites' performance in Seattle. Here's what I said: >Despite my various ideological criticisms of Ralph Nader, I've got >to say that his people - notably his chief organizer on the scene, >Mike Dolan, and the person who sent him there, Citizens Trade Watch >director Lori Wallach - were absolutely crucial ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 20 13:31:31 PST 1999