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Many high-tech firms contend that workers like flexible arrangements. They sometimes earn better wages than their full-time peers and can often buy a package of benefits from their agency. With their services in great demand, the argument goes, permatemps can job-hop at will and learn skills at each stop. There's no denying that many free agents prefer it that way; yet there are many more who would jump at the offer of a full-time...
Those are the people Marcus Courtney represents. A former Microsoft permatemp, Courtney is the founder of WashTech, a new union trying to organize high-tech workers. "The courts have said the charade is up," says Courtney. A band of 16 Microsoft permatemps has formed a collective-bargaining group allied with WashTech. The larger fight at Microsoft is far from over. The company is appealing the ruling; class-action claims over access to its 401(k) plan and health and other benefits are pending...
...particular problem in Colorado's highest peaks--and especially the 54 mountains that top 14,000 ft. The Fourteeners, as they are affectionately known by locals (and a growing stack of outdoor magazines and travel guides), have become a magnet to upwardly mobile climbers sporting high-tech gear and checklists of the peaks they've bagged. More than 200,000 are expected to scale the Fourteeners this year, three times as many as a decade...
After months of fear, loathing and litigation, the music and consumer-electronics industries have decided to try to make beautiful music together. Last week the Secure Digital Music Initiative--a coalition of 100 music, electronics and high-tech companies--announced that it was provisionally blessing a controversial music format known...
...include incentives that would encourage companies to fix Y2K problems. On the political front, "Republicans maneuvered the legislation so as to force Gore to choose between his political buddies," say Branegan. In the end, the veep and the President decided to come down on the side of their high-tech friends, says Branegan, but only "after pounding out a bill that was the least objectionable to trial lawyers and consumers...