Topic: Communications Workers of America

Outsourcing Jobs to Trinidad and the Ukraine? II

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 87
Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 2:08 PM

While the OutsourceWorld Conference takes place in New York City, the Brainstorm Group's more verbose Nearshore & Offshore Outsourcing Conference just wrapped up in San Francisco. In that city, unemployed engineers and software ...READ»

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V. An Internet Union: Does Collective Bargaining Make Sense When " We're All Owners Here? "

BY Gregory J. Pleshaw
Relevancy Score: 54
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:33 AM

New-economy job classifications range from temp to perma-temp, independent contractor to freelance, full-time exempt to nonexempt, and salaried employee to wage earner. While it seems unlikely that one union could represent this ...READ»

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Unions? Not in this valley.

BY Kim Girard
Relevancy Score: 42
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM

Why organizing white collar workers in Silicon Valley is hard slogging.READ»

SOCIAL PROBLEMS | Comment

BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE CONTINUES TO GROW WITH SEIU, LIUNA Alliance Expands Labor-Environmental Partnership for Good Jobs, Clean En

BY Meghan Krause
Relevancy Score: 39
Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 12:05 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (December 11, 2008) As the economic crisis grows, and as leaders from around the world gather in Poland to address climate change, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Laborers’ International ...READ»

ENTREPRENEURSHIP | Comment

The Permatemps Contretemps

BY Ron Lieber
Relevancy Score: 19
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:18 AM

It is the dark side of Free Agent Nation. Here's how the mix of Microsoft's human-resources policies, unwilling temps, high-tech union organizers, and "permatemp" agents produced unintended consequences -- and a cautionary tale.READ»

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Free Agents in the Olde World

BY Jill Rosenfeld
Relevancy Score: 19
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:28 AM

The future of work in Free Agent Nation may look strangely like the past, says MIT's Thomas Malone. Prithee: Art thou ready to join a guild?READ»