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...Mart is more than a particularly egregious violator of workers?? rights. It has become a symbol of corporate excess. A union at Wal-Mart would show that workers can succeed against even the most powerful of corporate giants. Just an attempt to organize Wal-Mart employees would dramatize the gross disparities in wealth that have come to characterize American society. A public struggle between a CEO who takes home several million dollars a year and his employees, earning a little over the $5.15 federal minimum wage, would demonstrate the kind of greed and exploitation that exists all over...
...reality intended to “disappear” and control a surplus population of laborers and turn them into someone’s economic gain. Thus, the black middle class operates as administrators in the social control regime—educators in poor schools, parole officers and social workers??while whites serve as correctional officers and management. At a time when rural areas should be suffering from globalization, more than a few towns have been buoyed by jobs from prison construction and management. Not to mention the added legislative representation and state funding that a rural town...
...problems with not having a union, say workers and students, is that unions provide a service that many consider key to the continued improvement in workers?? wages and benefits: scrutiny...
...statistics recently submitted to the City of Cambridge by the Harvard Planning and Allston Initiative, Harvard was the largest employer in the city last year, with about 10,000 people registered in its non-academic workforce for the 2004 Fiscal Year. That population includes both unionized in-house workers??employees who receive their paychecks, benefits and hours directly from the University—as well as all workers who answer to Harvard’s three major service contractors...
...fair share from Washington, Arnold could direct the klieg lights where they really belong—on preparing California for the future, and abolishing confusing voter initiatives that mandate irresponsible spending increases and guarantee fiscal insanity. And he could target investments in classrooms and mass transit, fix a broken workers?? compensation system, and help attract back the jobs that are fleeing for less expensive states. But he cannot be The People’s Governor until he stops just acting to fix the people’s government...