Archive for the ‘Labor’ Category

October 6th, 2012

(Don’t) Keep Your Head Down

by Lowry Heussler
Category: Labor, Politics and Leadership, Public management, Secrecy in government

Government needs to have mandatory discipline for high-ranking officials who act like jerks, and a mandatory snitch rule for lower-level employees who pretend they didn’t see it.  If Massachusetts had such a policy, we might not be in the mess we now face about faked test results at the state lab. Have you ever heard [...]

Posted: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
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September 12th, 2012

Reincarnation

by Michael O'Hare
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Education policy, Labor, Politics and Leadership

Pottier and de Geyter, Rouget de Lisle, Woody Guthrie, and the Weavers have all come down from heaven on the same day:  

Posted: Wednesday, September 12th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
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July 6th, 2012

“If our enemies will stop lying about us we will stop telling the truth about them”*

by Kelly Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Democratic Party, Economics, Elections 2010 and 2012, Labor, Lying in politics, Politics and Leadership, Republican Party, Rhetoric and Framing, Stimulus, Unemployment, Watching Conservatives

Though he attracted ridicule from the Right for saying it (and what could he say that wouldn’t attract ridicule from the Right?), the President is correct: the private sector is okay, creating jobs at a respectable clip.  The weakness in job creation comes primarily from the public sector, where states and municipalities are firing teachers [...]

Posted: Friday, July 6th, 2012 at 9:32 am
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July 2nd, 2012

Home health care workers—more than “companions” and helpers

by Harold Pollack
Category: Economics, Intellectual disability, Labor

A group of Senators wish to deprive home health care workers of minimum wage and overtime protections. Just whom do these Senators expect will bathe them when they get old?

Posted: Monday, July 2nd, 2012 at 12:56 pm
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March 17th, 2012

CTW, facts and truth, and more like that

by Michael O'Hare
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Built Environment, Labor, Lying in politics, Policy Analysis, Wayward press

This American Life just broadcast the extended retraction of/reflection on Michael Daisey’s January account of working conditions in Apple supplier factories in China.  This  whole story is a bonfire of fact-truth-journalism ethical puzzles.  During an exquisitely painful conversation with Ira Glass, Daisey claims he told the truth, as a piece of theater, even though many [...]

Posted: Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
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