Working Life

    If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term,  "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]

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    If the term "greenwash" hasn’t been given its own entry in the dictionary yet, let me propose that, when it does, it is linked directly to the word "Wal-Mart". For those not yet familiar with the term,  "greenwashing" occurs when a company pretends to be environmentally progressive yet is quite misleading about its true […]

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    For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the phenomena of lots more workers getting killed and injured in the wondrous Mike Bloomberg-generated construction boom in the […]

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    For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the phenomena of lots more workers getting killed and injured in the wondrous Mike Bloomberg-generated construction boom in the […]

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    Today brings some pretty grim news, on top of the bad news that has been percolating over the past few months. First, wholesale prices really went sky-high in 2007: Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as […]

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    Today brings some pretty grim news, on top of the bad news that has been percolating over the past few months. First, wholesale prices really went sky-high in 2007: Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as […]

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    When I first posted last week on the crossing of the Writers Guild of America’s picket lines by two labor-related academics, most of the focus was on Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber–perhaps mainly because Strikebreaker Seeber’s actions elicited a howl of protest from some of his colleagues. A bit more unnoticed were the actions by Richard […]

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    When I first posted last week on the crossing of the Writers Guild of America’s picket lines by two labor-related academics, most of the focus was on Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber–perhaps mainly because Strikebreaker Seeber’s actions elicited a howl of protest from some of his colleagues. A bit more unnoticed were the actions by Richard […]

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    Why would Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations continue to let a strikebreaker hold a top administrative job? That’s what appears to be happening. As far as I know, as of this morning, Assistant Provost Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber still has his job. Strikebreaker Seeber, as we discussed the other day, let his […]

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    Why would Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations continue to let a strikebreaker hold a top administrative job? That’s what appears to be happening. As far as I know, as of this morning, Assistant Provost Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber still has his job. Strikebreaker Seeber, as we discussed the other day, let his […]

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