- ...But there is another factor at work, which is not
getting much attention, and that is the negative role being played by employers,
both public and private, in worsening the recession and undermining the
stimulus effort, such as it is, by actually using economic crisis as an
excuse to further attack and undermine workers and their incomes...
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- ... Across the country, companies and public institutions
have been taking brutal advantage of the economic crisis as an opportunity
to attack their workers, slashing employment, demanding pay cuts (the New
York Times, for example, has cut employee paychecks by 5%), reducing long-held
benefits, and generally contributing to the impoverishment and insecurity
of the broader American workforce...
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/332
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