Search LBO-Talk Archives

40126 Service Industry Unions -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: >El Jefe writes: > >>Because they're very difficult to organize and because low-wage workers >>can't pay big dues. That last point is rarely talked about, but several >>people have told me that the UAW has shied away from organizing relatively >>low-wage workers in the auto parts industry because there's no financial >>payoff > >So why are they going after the even-more-poorly-paid TAs? Publicity value? Good question. Maybe they've ...

Document Size:	5475
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 10:30:29 PDT 1999

40127 A Personal Note -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >"Another concern is that the Republicans will successfully elect a new >national team in this country next year, partly by playing off against >the >perceived failure of the Democratic administration's Kosovo policy. In >this, >they will follow the lead of Eisenhower, who successfully argued in 1952 >that >he would clean up the Democratic mess in Korea." > >>From a personal note I received this morning from a prominent >Philadelph ...

Document Size:	5115
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 10:22:32 PDT 1999

40128 Nathan's gone -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >I hate to waste my first and maybe only posting for list-keep stuff, >but given the name-calling and folks questioning one another's >intelligence, morality, or god forbid lack of theoretical consistency, >I'm still waiting for the discussions to advance to phase 2. Hmmm... >Given the big dick thread, seems to me that despite all the erudition, >some folks are suffering from a steep learning curve on how to >communicate... War is ugly shit. Given the ...

Document Size:	5093
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 10:14:22 PDT 1999

40129 TB in Russia -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Incidence of Tuberculosis Rapidly Increasing in Russia Moscow, 15th April, ITAR-TASS correspondent Anna Varshavskaya: In the current year the incidence of tuberculosis in Russia has increased by 8 per cent. The Russian first deputy minister of health, Gennadiy Onishchenko, reported this at a news conference today. He said that approximately 2.5m people in Russia are suffering from various forms of tuberculosis. Moreover, 108,000 were diagnosed last year. The Siberian ...

Document Size:	5196
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 10:08:43 PDT 1999

40130 The Reader on Ma(t)r(i)x -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Here's the Chicago Reader, the free weekly here, on the movie The Matrix: >http://www.chireader.com/movies/archives/1999/0499/04169.html Gotta see this damn thing. How does the movie riff on Marx, as the review claims? Doug

Document Size:	4746
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 10:04:11 PDT 1999

40131 Help -- rank: 1000

cathy Livingstone wrote: >a $20 million capital asset with a life of 40 years, calculating the Net >Present Value over 10 years with a discount rate of 8%. The result, they >say is approximately ($11,730,000). There are two blips: in the second year >a smaller capital investment of $500,000 and a third year one-time payment >of $100,000. What about the expected income from the asset? Are there any estimates of that? Doug

Document Size:	4714
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 09:48:15 PDT 1999

40132 Kagarlitsky on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

[From International Viewpoint] THE CLINTON DOCTRINE By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW - In 1968, when Soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia, Western journalists began speaking of a ``Brezhnev Doctrine''. Its essence was simple: the sovereignty of the Warsaw Pact states was limited. If something went amiss, the Soviet ``big brother'' would decide who would be punished and how. Since then, an enormous amount has changed, but the desire of big brother to poke his nose into other people's business remains ...

Document Size:	12423
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 09:41:02 PDT 1999

40133 Service Industry Unions -- rank: 1000

Jennifer A Young wrote: >The article >mentioned that unions have historically shunned "the young, low-wage workers >that staff the retail sector". Because they're very difficult to organize and because low-wage workers can't pay big dues. That last point is rarely talked about, but several people have told me that the UAW has shied away from organizing relatively low-wage workers in the auto parts industry because there's no financial payoff. On the other hand, some unions, li ...

Document Size:	4963
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 09:37:18 PDT 1999

40134 KLA volunteers -- rank: 1000

Anderson, Bob wrote: >I remember back in the 80s when some American leftists were talking of >going to fight for the PLO or the Sandinistas that it was said if an >American goes to fight in combat in another country they would be >prosecuted for some betrayl to the country, or something like that. If >that was true, then would not the Americans who just joined in arms with >the KLA be subject to similar laws? Does anyone know anything about this? New York Times - April 20, 19 ...

Document Size:	10232
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 09:34:04 PDT 1999

40135 Orange Crush -- rank: 1000

S Pawlett wrote: >I've got lots of stories but none are very interesting. Just the usual >gross-out restaurant stories; someone ejaculating into wedding cake >batter, pubic hair in the spanakopita, urinating in the fish stock etc >etc. These are not urban legends, I've actually seen it. Is there any pattern to these attacks - revenge on creepy patrons - or is it just random culinary terrorism? Doug

Document Size:	4721
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 09:30:39 PDT 1999

40136 Economist Alan Krueger -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > A Democrat, he >>served as chief economist at the Labor Department in 1994 and 1995. The >>journal he edits has a circulation of 25,500, making it the most widely read >>in the profession. > >Doesn't Krueger coedit this journal? Krueger is editor and (the mysteriously quiet) Brad De Long is co-editor. A strange hierarchy, where a "co-" is (typographically at least) subordinated. Doug

Document Size:	4872
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 09:16:11 PDT 1999

40137 foaming at the mouth -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Chicago Sun-Times Clark on the offensive April 18, 1999 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Members of Congress who, during their spring recess, met in Brussels with Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, were startled by his bellicosity. According to the lawmakers, Clark suggested the best way to handle Russia's supply of oil to Yugoslavia would be aerial bombardment of the pipeline that runs through Hungary. He also proposed bombing Russian warships that en ...

Document Size:	5075
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 19 23:04:10 PDT 1999

40138 the KLA -- rank: 1000

["unconfirmed reports" of Soros funding - oh the things you can say in right-wing papers] National Post - April 19, 1999 NATO is getting cosy with a ragtag guerrilla force Reports of KLA unconfirmed: Alliance makes rebels out to be a fighting machine Isabel Vincent National Post Last week, at one of the daily NATO press briefings in Brussels, the alliance's spokesman Jamie Shea noted that the Kosovo Liberation Army, the rebel force that is fighting for the independence of the troubled ...

Document Size:	10622
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 19 22:54:11 PDT 1999

40139 FAIR's Radio Program Pulled From Pacifica's KPFK -- rank: 1000

FAIR News Release April 19, 1999 For Immediate Release: FAIR's Radio Program Pulled From Pacifica's KPFK Show Featured Interview With Fired Pacifica Broadcaster Larry Bensky CounterSpin, the nationally syndicated radio show produced by the media watch group FAIR, was pulled from its scheduled 3:00pm airing on Friday, April 16th by station KPFK, the Los Angeles- based Pacifica network affiliate. Phone calls by CounterSpin to KPFK management to determine why KPFK did not air the show were not retu ...

Document Size:	7044
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 19 20:52:52 PDT 1999

40140 Service Industry Unions -- rank: 1000

Jennifer A Young wrote: >I was wondering why service industry unions, especially restaurants, are not >more prevelent in the United States. I know there has been some success in >San Francisco, but where else? It seems that since welfare reform is >forcing people into these thankless positions there would be a good climate >for unions. I would be interested in hearing comments about this, and >would appreciate being steered toward some sources of information concerning > ...

Document Size:	5257
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 19 19:32:19 PDT 1999