BS: Who said there are no jobs?

Subject: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Sawzaw
Date: 20 May 12 - 11:25 PM

Right here you can make $10 per hour working for SEIU RentAmob

It's a pity that they don't pay union wages though. I wonder why?

[sidebar; "Feb 13, 2012 "You cannot live on $10.41 per hour in today's world," Spromberg said. The SEIU study recommends increasing hourly wages to $17.58 per hour"]

Anyway back to the poorly paying job.

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Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 20 May 12 - 11:45 PM

"It's a pity that they don't pay union wages though. I wonder why?"

You should read your own links.

This is a part-time, on call job that's great for actors, students or other politically inspired progressive people needing a flexible schedule.

But then again no one who is smart and not a millionaire is a "conservative." A requirement for your ideology is that you vote against your own economic self interest. That is what makes "progressive" causes so hopeless. They try to persuade when basic math and reading education is what is required.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Bert
Date: 21 May 12 - 12:32 AM

Well to start with the $10 an hour is a LIE. It is $8.00, barely above minimum wage, for which they want...


* Dedication to progressive issues and active interest in social movements
* Desire to be involved in political action and grassroots organizing
* Some college experience
* Excellent English reading and speaking skills
* Basic skills in typing and computer use
* Ability to assertively use the telephone as an organizing tool
* Fluency in Spanish is a plus

No wonder they can't find anyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Bert
Date: 21 May 12 - 12:33 AM

Now here is someone with two degrees. Do you think that I'd work for $8.00 and hour?

Go pull the other leg.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 May 12 - 09:19 AM

It depends upon how hungry you are.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 21 May 12 - 12:08 PM

At least they are offering part-time work. Better than Walmart jobs.

SEIU is at least fighting for better jobs than they can afford to give.

The U.S. could put people to work right now if there were the popular and political will to make it happen. Crumbling infrastructure could use a WPA.

The Unions are getting a bad rap because they have been eviscerated by congress,
corporations and corrupt government officials.

Roosevelt pulled the country out of a hole, mainly thanks to Eleanor who pushed Franklyn into doing something.

The Unions have traditionally defended the rights of working people but have been corrupted by sell-out politicians. If you destroy Unions, kiss the economic rights of Americans good bye

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 May 12 - 12:11 PM

"Who said there are no jobs?"

Sheeit, ya gotta be rich in the first place t'talk like that!

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 May 12 - 01:14 PM

I'm curious, Sawz.

What planet are you on?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Bobert
Date: 21 May 12 - 01:21 PM

The sad part about this is that while jobs are slowly being created after 30 years of union busting the wages are not living wages...

Mitt Romney uses Staples as his big success at Bane Capital... Staples employees work for a little over the minimum wage... The jobs that are being created are peasant jobs... Not real jobs...

Yet the folks creating them want to ****lecture**** you one how, out of that $9 to $10 an hour you will have to accept more responsibility for paying for your health care and your retirement???

These people are either severely math-challenged or just immoral and hateful people... You pick...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 May 12 - 07:12 PM

I have no idea who it was that said "there are no jobs", Sawzaw, so I can't help you with that. There are always certain jobs available for those who either have no choice about it...or are willing to work damn hard for really wretched pay...or under terrible conditions...or who have no moral scruples and are willing to do absolutely anything that pays.

For instance, you can flip hamburgers, work at WalMart, hire on as a Mafia hitman (if you have the credentials, and the pay is great!), become a prostitute, smuggle illegal goods over the border, smuggle in Asian and Russian girls and employ them as sex slaves (very profitable), sell drugs (even more profitable), join the armed forces and go blow up people in central Asia and get shot at for your troubles, work for Blackwater and other mercenary outfits, torture subversives of all kinds, become a prison guard (it's a thriving growth industry)....hell, there must be a million great jobs out there right now for those with a little initiative! ;-)

WHY are people complaining??????? Everything is going just great. And notice what great shape the whole civilian infrastructure is in since all the privatization went forward? Roads, bridges, and other stuff like that have never been in better shape than they are now........right? I just can't imagine why anyone would be living in poverty under these conditions.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 May 12 - 12:21 AM

I think the story of Romney "Job Creator!!!" falls flat with examples like Staples or any other big box. They probably put three people out of work at small stores for every job created.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 May 12 - 07:19 AM

Here in UK (in a very rural location) we too thought there weren't any opportunities. But our neighbour found my husband a nice cleaning job, and I help him with that, as it's good exercise. It's large holiday barns, changing bedlinen and cleaning bathrooms etc. If you don't mind 'menial' work (which we don't) and are reliable, there is work out there. It snowballs too, as one or two other people have taken us on on recommendation. We are lucky enough to get £10 an hour (I don't get any pay, I just help and supervise) I think this is fair pay.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 12 - 10:41 AM

Our govt. are planning to create more jobs, by allowing companies to fire people whenever they want. I'm sure there's some arguments to that somewhere, though seemingly unsupported by any evidence according to the resident expert fellow on Newsnight last night. Meanwhile, I wonder how removing worker's job security will encourage people to take out mortgages or indeed other loans they may need, to say buy a car or initiate a business? I can't see 'growth' being a product of consumer anxiety over a lack of job security. Not that I care for any of that stuff anyway mind. I'm all in favour of increased micro-consuming.

CS

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Bert
Date: 22 May 12 - 05:20 PM

So kids, don't bother to study, drop out of school and work for minimum wage 'cos that is what you'll be earning anyway, after you've got your degree.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: gnu
Date: 22 May 12 - 06:58 PM

"by allowing companies to fire people whenever they want"

Let's not forget. If you get fired, you lose your unemployment benifits for at least 6 weeks... maybe longer. At least, that's what my buddy, a "seasonal worker" in the fish processing industry told me.

Ahhh, that's in New brunswick, Canada. And, there are new laws proposed... ya gotta move if yer offered a job elsewhere in NB or lose yer benefits. That is gonna fuck up the fish plants big time... the people who employ seasonal workers.

Yes, I know. It's all very complicated. And, no, I don't know the whole story(ies). Just seems that it's one big clusterfuck with the pot calling the kettle black.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Sawzaw
Date: 23 May 12 - 11:07 AM

Union Drops Health Coverage for Workers' Children

"In the past three years the SEIU 1199 fund reduced its total enrollment in half, to less than 40,000 currently."

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state's health department and new national health-insurance requirements.

The fund is administered by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Union officials said the state compelled the fund to start buying coverage from a third party, which increased premiums by 60%. State health officials denied forcing the union fund to make the switch, saying the fund had been struggling financially even before the switch to third-party coverage.

The fund informed its members late last month that their dependents will no longer be covered as of Jan. 1, 2011. Currently about 6,000 children are covered by the benefit fund, some until age 23.

The union fund faced a "dramatic shortfall" between what employers contributed to the fund and the premiums charged by its insurance provider, Fidelis Care, according to Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension funds for 1199SEIU. The union fund pools contributions from several home-care agencies and then buys insurance from Fidelis.

"In addition, new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26," Behroozi wrote in a letter to members Oct. 22. "Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.."

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 23 May 12 - 12:43 PM

I just called in to the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, our local National Public Radio affiliate, asking for people who are willing to work for us selling Atmospheric Water Generation equipment on commission. Within 15 minutes, I had 5 good responses. I will be interviewing starting tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 May 12 - 02:24 PM

One view seems to be that the way to compete economically with China is to cut US wages down to the Chinese level. Beats slavery, though...you have to feed your slaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 23 May 12 - 08:07 PM

I resolved years ago to live as though I made minimum wage or social security..it simplifies things...

I think there are bright points in the future. I think energy costs will go way down, that health costs will go way down once doctors in US figure out what is written in best-selling books about what causes insulin resistance which is tied to almost all major diseases (hint, it is starches). Housing costs will go down as we will not build more than we need. What will and should go up is cost of food. We will get better food, we will put more people to work in agriculture, we will be more economically secure as a country and we will be healthier. We need to keep some manufacturing for the skills alone, but what we need to be is again an agricultural country, kissed by the sun, shrouded in mist and fog, etc. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Who said there are no jobs?
From: Sawzaw
Date: 25 May 12 - 01:41 PM

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