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Logics of Solidarity
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014. We Can End the Worst of Workfare. To be consistent with federal law, the bills leave in place the requirement that welfare recipients work, and leave in place a range of other options by which this could be made possible, including subsidized and transitional jobs that. Starting to do so, without exploiting welfare recipients and without displacing existing paid workers with unpaid labor. Twenty years ago, there seemed to be a consensus that work—any work, under any condit...
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Logics of Solidarity: June 2014
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Thursday, June 19, 2014. Update on the WEP bills, From Community Voices Heard, yesterday: THIS IS URGENT. Can folks please help us flood Senator Farley's office (518) 455-2181 DEMANDING he vote FOR S5120 which is the ANTI WEP BILL in the state Senate? WEP is today's modern day slavery and we need to end WEP NOW. WE NEED Farley to feel this. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. We Can End the Worst of Workfare. Today, in the state legislature, two bills introduced by State Senator Diane Savino would abolish unpaid &...
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Logics of Solidarity: February 2011
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Friday, February 25, 2011. In the Same Boat. One of the most distressing elements of the current attacks on public employees is the support given to them by many private-sector workers. The reasons are simple. Many private-sector workers resent that public-sector workers, paid for through their taxes, continue to enjoy job protections, health care, and insurance while workers in the private sector find their jobs, benefits, and pay increasingly precarious. While union membership declined precipitously, p...
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Logics of Solidarity: Circus Maximus
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Sunday, March 6, 2011. History repeats itself. Governor Scott Walker and Republican legislators’ “budget repair bill” repeats the politics of Wisconsin’s welfare reforms in several ways, though this time, thankfully, they cannot claim bipartisan support. With Walker’s overreaching, however, the mask, perhaps, has begun to slip. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a sociologist and one-time urban planner who now teaches political science at the City College of New York. View my complete profile.
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Logics of Solidarity: In the Same Boat
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Friday, February 25, 2011. In the Same Boat. One of the most distressing elements of the current attacks on public employees is the support given to them by many private-sector workers. The reasons are simple. Many private-sector workers resent that public-sector workers, paid for through their taxes, continue to enjoy job protections, health care, and insurance while workers in the private sector find their jobs, benefits, and pay increasingly precarious. While union membership declined precipitously, p...
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Logics of Solidarity: Re-Cant
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011. That justifies further cutbacks to public workers. And it’s not true. In fact, the pension crisis is way overblown. It turns out that while there is. A crisis in funding state pensions, it stems from two places. First, most of the crisis is (probably) temporary: it is the result of the stock market nosedive, and the plans are likely to recover significant value, and have likely done so already. A good deal of noise is now being generated about moving future public employees—...
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Logics of Solidarity: Slippery Times
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Sunday, March 6, 2011. The New York Times. Takes the “reasonable” route: criticizing Governor Walker of Wisconsin for his extremism, it says that it’s not anti-worker or anti-union to say that New York State workers are overpaid and need to accept curbs on wages, pensions, and rules that level the playing field at the bargaining table. Editors acknowledge that 401(k)-type plans shift retirement risk onto employees, but they don’t really follow up with what that could mean. As it is, the average...Be payi...
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Logics of Solidarity: March 2011
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011. It turns out that my earlier post " Circus Maximus. Probably overstated what Wisconsin teachers make. After a conversation with the president of the Milwaukee teacher's union. You get to $47,000 after seven years on the job. If you have an MA, you start off in a slightly better "lane". See the details at http:/ www.mtea.org/User/Mimlitza/TEACHER0709.pdf. Not to mention that $40,000 is before taxes. Yes. Public employees pay taxes. It's a form of recycling. Sunday, March 6, 2011.
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Logics of Solidarity: Wisconsin Teachers
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011. It turns out that my earlier post " Circus Maximus. Probably overstated what Wisconsin teachers make. After a conversation with the president of the Milwaukee teacher's union. You get to $47,000 after seven years on the job. If you have an MA, you start off in a slightly better "lane". See the details at http:/ www.mtea.org/User/Mimlitza/TEACHER0709.pdf. Not to mention that $40,000 is before taxes. Yes. Public employees pay taxes. It's a form of recycling. View my complete profile.
