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...screams the loudest who's right. Peter Andersen 29, adviser in the youth section, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions Why should employers be allowed to fire young people without a reason? More than anybody else, young people need secure attachment to the labor market. Here in Denmark, young people are given a kind of loose attachment to the labor market and do not have the same rights as anybody else. The Danish government is proposing that people under 30 should have reduced unemployment benefits if they don't have [ certain educational qualifications ]. The system of casual laborers and contracts...
...apply. Even a GED is not sufficient for a job here anymore. Take a tour of the factory floor, and the main reason is clear. Some workers--entry-level employees--stand at their stations and pluck irregular pieces of fiber glass from the line. It's mostly mindless labor, but the giant whirring belts and chomping insulation cutters are run by adjacent computer terminals called programmable-logic controllers. When the floor boss goes on a coffee break, it's the floor workers who must operate the controllers. In today's factories, no worker is more than a boss's coffee...
...Bourbon Street didn’t demand the kind of manual labor performed in devastated neighborhoods. Still, supporting Bourbon Street was another way for the students to sustain New Orleans. Tourism drew $5 billion of spending to New Orleans in 2004, and the Big Easy will need many of those visitors if it is to rise again...
That spring, activists from the Progressive Student Labor Movement had occupied Mass. Hall for three weeks to demand that Harvard pay its workers—including dining hall employees—salaries that matched the increasing cost of living in the Boston region. But the part-time producers say they were fortunate enough to be pulling $11 or $12 an hour already at Leverett, a significant improvement on their previous jobs...
...difficult to deny any human being the right to work relentlessly for the opportunity—not a handout; just a chance—to enjoy some of the prosperity that most Americans take for granted. On the other hand, I recognize that the availability of cheap immigrant labor lowers wages for some of America’s poorest citizens. The assertion that immigrants only take the jobs Americans are too proud to do is both xenophobic and false. Immigrants take the jobs that Americans won’t do for low wages. If immigration stopped, the grapes would still...