Free traders, privatizers and devoted deregulators everywhere know job losses in manufacturing make up bad news, which is why they forecast new investment and expansion into sectors with higher productivity and more jobs for the future. They talk vaguely of new high tech jobs, always careful to mention computers and computer technology. They warn these new jobs require technical knowledge or college degrees and so they advise, “Get some training.”Holding out training and education as the path to better jobs shifts the responsibility for failure,...
Thursday, 17 May 2007
Saturday, 12 May 2007
Customer Service Representative
Posted on 13:21 by Unknown
Customer Service Representatives are one of several important marker office and administration jobs with employment in every sector of the United States economy. There are now almost 2.1 million total jobs as customer services representatives, which is the 9th place job among America’s jobs. The largest share of Customer Service Representatives, or just over a quarter of them, work in the Finance and Insurance sector. Customer Service Representatives handle customer inquiries and resolve customer complaints. Specific work will vary some depending...
Tuesday, 8 May 2007
Circuit City Jobs
Posted on 12:09 by Unknown
The caption on the Washington Post article from March 29, 2007 reads “Circuit City Cuts 3,400 ‘Overpaid’ Workers.” Job cuts came out of 40,000 in store jobs, or 9 percent of the company’s in store workforce. The firings were not related to job performance, the company announced, but came as part of an effort to cut costs and improve the bottom line. We learn later in the article that the chief executive officer of Circuit City earns a salary just over $1.4 million dollars, and one of 11 “overpaid” employees fired without notice at the Ashville,...
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
White Collar Rules
Posted on 11:01 by Unknown
The Bush administration decided to make a change in America’s work rules intended to harm managerial employment and lower business employment costs. They decided to abolish over time for management or managerial employees. “The exemptions do not apply to manual laborers or other “blue collar” workers who perform work involving repetitive operations with their hands, physical skill and energy.” The Federal Government already gets right in the middle of the wage and effort bargain with the Fair Labor Standards Act, which for many years required...
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