http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1007-24.htm
Professors Against Bush Economic and Labor Policy
WASHINGTON - October 7- A group of professors and scholars
specializing in management, business, and economics have banded
together to express their dismay at the Bush Administration's economic
and labor policies.
The group of nearly 30 academics have signed the petition included
below:
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS THE ALLY OF UNION-BUSTERS AND THE ENEMY OF
WORKING AMERICANS
America needs a change at the top. As professors and scholars of
management, we are charged with educating the next generation of
leaders. As citizens in a democracy, we take seriously our
responsibility to speak out on matters of public policy, especially
when the common good and the long term viability of the economy are at
stake.
We cannot be silent while the Administration of George W. Bush attacks
the gains of working people over the past hundred years. It would be
bad enough if the Bush administration were merely trying to turn the
clock back to the "good old days" of untrammeled managerial
prerogatives and unfettered markets.
In reality, however, this administration is forging an ever more
noxious mix of private economic interests and covert public power. Our
economic, social, health, and environmental security is threatened as
never before. The Bush majority on the National Labor Relations Board
has stripped rights from health care workers, denied protection to a
significant fraction of private university employees, weakened
penalties for egregious labor law violators, and challenged state laws
banning the use of taxpayers' money in anti-union drives.
The NLRB is supposed to enforce workers' rights, but the Bush
administration seeks to make it the ally of union-busters. There is a
gaping and expanding hole in American democracy. The Bush
administration has issued a regulation that denies millions of workers
their right to overtime pay. The formation of the Department of
Homeland Security has carried a huge price tag in compromised civil
liberties, including the abolition of all collective bargaining rights
for the 170,000 federal workers transferred into that huge department.
Rules to limit the spread of tuberculosis have been dropped to please
big business. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has
become more "business friendly," which means that standards to protect
workers from toxic chemicals are killed before they can help.
Ten years of research on ergonomics were trashed because the
Administration does not feel the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Bush's chief economist sees outsourcing as good as long as his job is
secure. We cannot remain silent as the Administration harnesses the
power of government to serve the special interests of the super-rich
at the expense of ordinary, working Americans. Most of our students
stand to lose as their workplaces become more dangerous, their jobs
less secure, their freedom of expression more constrained. Even an MBA
degree cannot save you when the most powerful state on earth wages
class war on its working people.
Paul Adler, U. of Southern California
Rose Batt, Cornell U.
Laurie DiPadova-Stocks, Park U.
Frank Dubois, American U.
Dale Fitzgibbons, Illinois State U.
Bernard Goitein, Bradley U.
Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell University
Vanessa Hill, U. of Louisiana, Lafayette
Ray Hogler, Colorado State U.
David Jacobs, Hood College
Milton Jacobs, emeritus, SUNY-New Paltz
Anita Jose, Hood College
David Kolb, Case Western Reserve U.
Satish Kolluri, Pace University
David Levy, U. of Mass.-Boston
Sharon Livesey, Fordham U.
John Luhman, New Mexico State U.
Richard Marens, Cal.State U.-Sacramento
Biju Mathew, Rider U.
Ali Mir, William Patterson U.
Raza Mir, William Patterson U.
Ralph Stablein, Massey U.
Sarah Stookey, U. of Mass.-Amherst
Judy Strauss, Cal. State U.-Long Beach
John Truty, Northern Illinois U.
Ray Vegso, Canisius College
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Queens College
Maxim Voronov, Columbia U.
Dvora Yanow, Cal. State U.-Hayward
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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1075 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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