We'd love to have you on EP btw, upper right is the create account. EP is a community blog, i.e. anyone can write a blog post and the comments are threaded for discussion etc.
Especially if you find any other labor organizations piping up. Obviously the Teamsters had zero influence on Pelosi and I'll bet they are now screaming considering how much they did for Democrats in this election (and every election). They are part of the SEIU (which makes no sense to me since their own positions are often different on various labor issues).
With new Employee Fair Act (I think that's what its called) may encourage IT Folks to join Unions and to pay extra union funds for lobbying. By the way, I also post this news in the linkedin groups that I belong to.
We really have to push colleagues and friends to call. It's not really hard since you really talk to the aide which gives the information to the senator.
I also submitted a form in the AFL-CIO website with a link to this news.
This is our Armageddon, the major battle we have to fight against the H1b and L1 plague, if they win this one then our battle is lost and I'm going to find a different profession.
WashTech is part of the AFL-CIO. Part of the CWA, which in turn is under the AFL-CIO umbrella.
The key is to make this an AFL-CIO issue and since Professional workers, IT workers especially do not join unions, organize, IT/Tech/Professionals issues get moved to the back of the bus because of all of the other labor issues which most affect their members.
But, the AFL-CIO DPE, IFPTE, California Nurses Union, I think there are more, do care, lobby on these issues but they cannot pull in the lobbyists barrage that say NASSCOM demands (with the help of the India government too).
FAIR is a reduced immigration group and while there is overlap, why I have no idea but on similar goals these cats do not join forces. The AFL-CIO is for "amnesty" but it's a much more workers, labor amnesty than say the SEIU, which appears to be insane in terms cause/effect/wages etc.
But that's why. That said, I hope the AFL-CIO picks up on this, the general theme of U.S. taxpayer money for U.S. jobs hiring U.S. workers....because not putting provisions like this on the jobs....well, uh, in a global labor arbitrage, offshore outsourced contracts (one can get funds/contract for a project and potentially offshore outsource the entire thing in say China) this needs to be done.
The corporate lobbyists, including NASSCOM are now out in droves whining "protectionist" and all sorts of crap, buying our Congress...well this is pure insanity. This is not private money, the private sector, this is the United States government, public funds expenditure.
How come we can't team up with the AFL-CIO, WashTech and FAIR so that there can be a drive to call the senators? On Monday, I will call my senator. Calling only works if there are volume calls.
If there is an important fight to save American jobs this is the most important one or else American IT workers will be begging for work again even with the stimulus.
I wonder if they have a hat they are passing around called "pick an excuse" and another called "pick a scapegoat", anything that removes the spotlight on themselves.
your comment title pretty much sums up 95% of the problems in the United States economic policy. It's not supposed to be a religion or a beliefs, it's supposed to be affirming, utilizing the actual historic and statistical results to verify the policy accuracy and success.
blasting him for such an obvious journalist lapse in judgment. He's the only TV show covering trade, nobody does offshore outsourcing or guest workers (except CNBC who gives air time to some corporate lobbyist), has on Joseph Stiglitz
etc.
But there are moments like the above but if you notice there has to be some sort of arm twisting going on somewhere.
Maybe Time Warner publishes her drivel books and since they own the network force these guys to soft shoe the interview...
I have no idea but yeah, I won't watch her period.
Better picking up a meth crack head off the street and giving their expert opinion on the issues of the day than her. ;)
Come on Bruce, it's a typo and yes of course that is absurd.
For $335 million I could:
1. Fund completely 83 Silicon valley start-ups, each with at least 30 personnel, each with an innovation business plan that would not only create jobs but also help our trade balance AND possibly generate entirely new industrial sectors plus massive profits.
2. Create an entire advanced research facility. Staff it with $1000 researchers for a 5 year project in advanced materials for battery technology.
3. do a complete upgrade on a small FAB to the new 45mn.
That's a good 1000 manufacturing jobs staying in the United States.
Now, how hard is it to show a video in a class, or even creation of some public service announcements, some videos and to demonstrate a "banana and condom"? How hard is it to get MDs to talk about STDs in the doctor office? Nurses?
We are, alas, living in interesting times, in which the Fed is conducting a gigantic experiment to see if Milton Friedman's theory of the Great Depression was correct or not.
...I'm sorry it took me a while to read it. I actually think that Crotty and Reich are talking about basically the same thing. Reich mentions deregulation of financial markets going back to the 1960s and how this has forced companies (mostly in the service sector) to ALSO cut payrolls, reduce benefits, etc.---not because the are subject to foreign competition, but because (as what Crotty refers to as the neoliberal paradox) these companies were under pressure from Wall Streeters to maintain ever-increasing bottom lines (which led many corporations to stop thinking long term and thinking on a quarter by quarter basis) or else they faced the risk of falling stock prices or threat of hostile takeover. I double checked the end notes of Reich's book because it looks like Reich could have used Crotty as a source, but he didn't. Where Crotty seems to think of financial deregulation along a neoliberal bent as the primary mover I think Reich would say something like:
technological changes (which transformed our oligopolized, protected from foriegn competition economy) led to----> deregulation of nearly everything (including financial markets) which both led to---> globalization, outsourcing, union busting, payroll & benefit slashing, ULTRAHIGH CEO pay, undermining of democracy by corporate interests, etc. (or the MESS we are in today).
I think politics were behind this whole thing which I don't think Reich acknowledges adequately. I guess the difference between Crotty and Reich are whether financial deregulation is the primary cause or not, but reading Crotty's paper I thought there was alot of overlap.
"....under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism it's just the opposite..." ---John Kenneth Galbraith
That's not suitable for a temporary program, so the only way I can see it in a stimulus package is to cover spending states normally do, which allows states to avoid cutting back on spending to balance the budget.
As far as how many jobs it generates ... its almost certainly going to generate more jobs per dollar than rail capital works but on the other hand the rail capital works is a useful capital investment in any event, so its go a justification for the much higher on-costs of the work per worker, and also there is just so much more capital works that can be done quickly ... the only stimulus spending that can really be done on STD education is to pick up the tab for a couple of years for the spending that is already normally occurring.
namely, those students who are capable of doing the math but do not accept the basic assumptions, soon realize that they will have no future in the profession, and drop out. This leaves only the true believers behind -- and there is a great deal of money to be made by being a -shill- er, true believer
That has been my exact experience. I was a grad student 12 years ago and that is a big reason why I dropped out. Well, I was also a lazy, second-rate student who was unprepared for the rigors of graduate school. But then, if I hadn't felt the outright hostility of the orthodox (and mostly "fresh water) faculty and actually believed in what I was doing (I felt like an atheist in divinity school, it's something that's irreconcilable) I might have actually put in the effort.
"....under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism it's just the opposite..." ---John Kenneth Galbraith
Just how many in the U.S. are independent contractors, or 1099-misc. The work performed is services, "employee like" yet not only do they not get benefits and have to provide them as a small business, but they cannot apply for unemployment insurance. Even food stamps is calculated different.
So, how much of the workforce is 1 person "businesses" who are in this situation?
Their median age, personal income, retirement savings, falling through the cracks.
There are other categories too such as the permanent part-time and the underemployed...
Going through the statistics on all of this (not personal story the aggregate data like the above) might shed strong light on the fact that many are not real businesses as presented by the GOP....where somebody is running a deli, has at least $300k gross and can cover all of the costs of business such as retirement, insurances, health.... but instead are screwed over employees that are getting denied their real pay/benefit levels.
Might put in the 2.5 calculation of 1099-misc rate to actual final wages in there too. When someone sees "$40/hr" or whatever, they think "$40/hr" w-2 and all of the benefits associated with it....but $40/hr as a 1099-misc is more like $15/hr in wages.
might also make an interesting post.
This was exceptional.
Maybe a follow up is wage deflation.
We'd love to have you on EP btw, upper right is the create account. EP is a community blog, i.e. anyone can write a blog post and the comments are threaded for discussion etc.
Especially if you find any other labor organizations piping up. Obviously the Teamsters had zero influence on Pelosi and I'll bet they are now screaming considering how much they did for Democrats in this election (and every election). They are part of the SEIU (which makes no sense to me since their own positions are often different on various labor issues).
-- Teamsters Ask For Outsourcing Moratorium In Stimulus Bill -- http://aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=7c8e1b6e-f24c-4147-8236-a9...
i'm searching to see if anyone else did...
It's about time someone called it like it is! Thank you Senator McCaskill.
With new Employee Fair Act (I think that's what its called) may encourage IT Folks to join Unions and to pay extra union funds for lobbying. By the way, I also post this news in the linkedin groups that I belong to.
We really have to push colleagues and friends to call. It's not really hard since you really talk to the aide which gives the information to the senator.
I also submitted a form in the AFL-CIO website with a link to this news.
This is our Armageddon, the major battle we have to fight against the H1b and L1 plague, if they win this one then our battle is lost and I'm going to find a different profession.
WashTech is part of the AFL-CIO. Part of the CWA, which in turn is under the AFL-CIO umbrella.
The key is to make this an AFL-CIO issue and since Professional workers, IT workers especially do not join unions, organize, IT/Tech/Professionals issues get moved to the back of the bus because of all of the other labor issues which most affect their members.
But, the AFL-CIO DPE, IFPTE, California Nurses Union, I think there are more, do care, lobby on these issues but they cannot pull in the lobbyists barrage that say NASSCOM demands (with the help of the India government too).
FAIR is a reduced immigration group and while there is overlap, why I have no idea but on similar goals these cats do not join forces. The AFL-CIO is for "amnesty" but it's a much more workers, labor amnesty than say the SEIU, which appears to be insane in terms cause/effect/wages etc.
But that's why. That said, I hope the AFL-CIO picks up on this, the general theme of U.S. taxpayer money for U.S. jobs hiring U.S. workers....because not putting provisions like this on the jobs....well, uh, in a global labor arbitrage, offshore outsourced contracts (one can get funds/contract for a project and potentially offshore outsource the entire thing in say China) this needs to be done.
The corporate lobbyists, including NASSCOM are now out in droves whining "protectionist" and all sorts of crap, buying our Congress...well this is pure insanity. This is not private money, the private sector, this is the United States government, public funds expenditure.
How come we can't team up with the AFL-CIO, WashTech and FAIR so that there can be a drive to call the senators? On Monday, I will call my senator. Calling only works if there are volume calls.
If there is an important fight to save American jobs this is the most important one or else American IT workers will be begging for work again even with the stimulus.
I wonder if they have a hat they are passing around called "pick an excuse" and another called "pick a scapegoat", anything that removes the spotlight on themselves.
your comment title pretty much sums up 95% of the problems in the United States economic policy. It's not supposed to be a religion or a beliefs, it's supposed to be affirming, utilizing the actual historic and statistical results to verify the policy accuracy and success.
blasting him for such an obvious journalist lapse in judgment. He's the only TV show covering trade, nobody does offshore outsourcing or guest workers (except CNBC who gives air time to some corporate lobbyist), has on Joseph Stiglitz
etc.
But there are moments like the above but if you notice there has to be some sort of arm twisting going on somewhere.
Maybe Time Warner publishes her drivel books and since they own the network force these guys to soft shoe the interview...
I have no idea but yeah, I won't watch her period.
Better picking up a meth crack head off the street and giving their expert opinion on the issues of the day than her. ;)
Come on Bruce, it's a typo and yes of course that is absurd.
For $335 million I could:
1. Fund completely 83 Silicon valley start-ups, each with at least 30 personnel, each with an innovation business plan that would not only create jobs but also help our trade balance AND possibly generate entirely new industrial sectors plus massive profits.
2. Create an entire advanced research facility. Staff it with $1000 researchers for a 5 year project in advanced materials for battery technology.
3. do a complete upgrade on a small FAB to the new 45mn.
That's a good 1000 manufacturing jobs staying in the United States.
Now, how hard is it to show a video in a class, or even creation of some public service announcements, some videos and to demonstrate a "banana and condom"? How hard is it to get MDs to talk about STDs in the doctor office? Nurses?
$335 million dollars? I do not think so!
Please. We debunked the "private investment didn't return to 1939 levels" in the following article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/the-great-depression-pt-i_b_1...
From the St. Louis Fed:
1933-01-01 56.4 (FDR takes office in March)
1934-01-01 66.0 +17.0% growth
1935-01-01 73.3 +11.6% growth
1936-01-01 83.8 +14.3% growth
1937-01-01 91.9 + 9.4% growth
You are entitled to your own ideology. You are not entitled to your own facts.
Let me know if you want me to adjust for inflation. I'd be delighted.
We are, alas, living in interesting times, in which the Fed is conducting a gigantic experiment to see if Milton Friedman's theory of the Great Depression was correct or not.
...I'm sorry it took me a while to read it. I actually think that Crotty and Reich are talking about basically the same thing. Reich mentions deregulation of financial markets going back to the 1960s and how this has forced companies (mostly in the service sector) to ALSO cut payrolls, reduce benefits, etc.---not because the are subject to foreign competition, but because (as what Crotty refers to as the neoliberal paradox) these companies were under pressure from Wall Streeters to maintain ever-increasing bottom lines (which led many corporations to stop thinking long term and thinking on a quarter by quarter basis) or else they faced the risk of falling stock prices or threat of hostile takeover. I double checked the end notes of Reich's book because it looks like Reich could have used Crotty as a source, but he didn't. Where Crotty seems to think of financial deregulation along a neoliberal bent as the primary mover I think Reich would say something like:
technological changes (which transformed our oligopolized, protected from foriegn competition economy) led to----> deregulation of nearly everything (including financial markets) which both led to---> globalization, outsourcing, union busting, payroll & benefit slashing, ULTRAHIGH CEO pay, undermining of democracy by corporate interests, etc. (or the MESS we are in today).
I think politics were behind this whole thing which I don't think Reich acknowledges adequately. I guess the difference between Crotty and Reich are whether financial deregulation is the primary cause or not, but reading Crotty's paper I thought there was alot of overlap.
...that's' it for me and Lou.
He's not a serious person if he can put her on his show even if he occasionally says something that make sense.
....as does Canada.
As long as Americans refuse to demand single payer, funded by the government, we will have a third world health care system.
... for the task at hand indeed.
Was it actually $335m? $335b?
That's not suitable for a temporary program, so the only way I can see it in a stimulus package is to cover spending states normally do, which allows states to avoid cutting back on spending to balance the budget.
As far as how many jobs it generates ... its almost certainly going to generate more jobs per dollar than rail capital works but on the other hand the rail capital works is a useful capital investment in any event, so its go a justification for the much higher on-costs of the work per worker, and also there is just so much more capital works that can be done quickly ... the only stimulus spending that can really be done on STD education is to pick up the tab for a couple of years for the spending that is already normally occurring.
That has been my exact experience. I was a grad student 12 years ago and that is a big reason why I dropped out. Well, I was also a lazy, second-rate student who was unprepared for the rigors of graduate school. But then, if I hadn't felt the outright hostility of the orthodox (and mostly "fresh water) faculty and actually believed in what I was doing (I felt like an atheist in divinity school, it's something that's irreconcilable) I might have actually put in the effort.
Just how many in the U.S. are independent contractors, or 1099-misc. The work performed is services, "employee like" yet not only do they not get benefits and have to provide them as a small business, but they cannot apply for unemployment insurance. Even food stamps is calculated different.
So, how much of the workforce is 1 person "businesses" who are in this situation?
Their median age, personal income, retirement savings, falling through the cracks.
There are other categories too such as the permanent part-time and the underemployed...
Going through the statistics on all of this (not personal story the aggregate data like the above) might shed strong light on the fact that many are not real businesses as presented by the GOP....where somebody is running a deli, has at least $300k gross and can cover all of the costs of business such as retirement, insurances, health.... but instead are screwed over employees that are getting denied their real pay/benefit levels.
Might put in the 2.5 calculation of 1099-misc rate to actual final wages in there too. When someone sees "$40/hr" or whatever, they think "$40/hr" w-2 and all of the benefits associated with it....but $40/hr as a 1099-misc is more like $15/hr in wages.
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