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 Blue Collar + Labor
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Mike's Friends
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | GREEN GODDESS APRIL 11, 2011  And Nobody Knows - Ikea In a time when jobs are scarce, wages commensurate with those jobs worse, a massive discrimination suit at another behemoth Wal-Mart regarding sexual discrimination, a move to remove child labor laws,unions, minimum wages, OSHA regs and so forth, I sometimes feel I am on a soap box trying to remind people that Green is sometimes just a color. Ikea's U.S. The International Assn. workers. | GREEN GODDESS APRIL 8, 2011  All Men/Women Are Not Equal The ordinary dynamics of supply and demand have certainly played a role: laborsaving technologies have reduced the demand for many “good” middle-class, blue-collar jobs. I read this today in Vanity Fair and it is very much in line with my current focus on the current state of our Economic stability or in this case instability - which again is not Sustainable. Bush used to deride. | | | | | |
| GREEN GODDESS JUNE 12, 2009 Maybe they mean Green as in "Alien" I just received this update from the local Wash Tech group which is working to unionize those white collar tech jobs which many think are exempt from the practices of extinction, manipulation and discrimination often found in the more blue collar professions. As anyone can tell you having a degree, being intelligent, being experienced and being a hard worker regardless of the color of your collar is no guarantee for a long successful professional career. As labor leaders representing union members in both states, we find this entire story reprehensible. | GREEN GODDESS JUNE 14, 2009 Brother, Can you Spare Million? Larry Mishel, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, offers data showing that blue-collar unemployment is increasing three times as fast as white-collar unemployment. The last two recessions — in the early ’90s and in 2001 — produced mass white-collar layoffs, and while the current one has seen plenty of downsized real-estate agents and financial analysts, the brunt is being borne by the blue-collar working class, which has been sliding downward since deindustrialization began in the ’80s. wasn't sure who I was supposed to feel sorry for. | GREEN GODDESS JUNE 24, 2009 Greeen/Blue whatever the collar the jobs exist I have said for awhile now that the Green Job economy is largely a mythic one and a newer fancier name for what is ostensibly blue collar jobs reconfigured into newer trades but the experience and skill set the same. Despite Recession, High Demand for Skilled Labor By LOUIS UCHITELLE Published: June 23, 2009 Just as the recession began, Chris McGrary, a manager at the Cianbro Corporation, set out to hire 80 “experienced” welders. As cautioned by my last post and again yesterday morning in a webinar with Energy Star the jobs for those looking to move into do not exist. | GREEN GODDESS SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 Playing and Paying Fair As a union advocate and child or two very proud union workers I see the need to perhaps find our roots as a proud blue collar nation. What our study shows is that this is a widespread phenomenon across the low-wage labor market in the United States.” Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis responded to the report with an e-mail statement, saying, “There is no excuse for the disregard of federal labor standards — especially those designed to protect the neediest among us.” The study’s authors noted that many low-wage employers comply with wage and labor laws. | | | | | | | |
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