Top Stories, Wednesday 15 Jan
Seeing the
Forest asks:
Are you in a union? Not in your line of work, you think? You’re a programmer? Working in sales?
A middle manager? Marketing? (Weblogger?) Two years ago programmers, system administrators, web
designers, product managers, marketing managers, all thought they owned the world. Now many can’t
find a job and have been looking for 6 months or a year or more. Wages are dropping, working
conditions are deteriorating, jobs are being exported and the people they are exported to aren’t
paid squat so they aren’t going to be buying whatever we do still make here.