Worker's Rights

AlterNet: WorkPlace: Bush Poised to Veto Long-Sought Labor Reform: "Big Business commissioned a Zogby poll that's dangerously close to the political 'push-polls' of campaign infamy. The questions were remarkably dishonest, and the results were what the pollsters and their clients were looking for. Please tell me whether you agree or disagree with the following statement: 'Every worker should continue to have the right to a federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether to organize a union.'"

How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT: Let IT Be More than Firefighters

So I can get a job.

I have been in IT since 1972. I left an insurance co the first time I was being Dilbertized. Now I consider insurance to be legalized gambling where the house always wins. I went broke trying to run my own business. Gave my services away. Then I went to a university to have meaningful work and it happened again when the university hired a CIO from the corporate world. I'm broke again and looking for a job. I will only work for a non-profit now. If the work can't be meaningful, the cause can. I've applied to the UConn foundation and I'm applying to another non-profit. Ahh, for the days when a programmer was allowed a say in the decision of what the computer could do for the organisation. Now it's the businessperson.

How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT: Let IT Be More than Firefighters

NO!!!!

I worked for a corporation, and insurance company. I didn't like it. I worked at a university and liked it. I was contributing to knowledge and art. Then we got a CIO from the corporate world. I didn't like it anymore.

AlterNet: WorkPlace: Get Promoted with a YES! Attitude? Yuck.