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Check out this page on NJ.com
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

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Check out this page on NJ.com
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Dear smlr net: eugene (sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu) thought you would be interested in this item from NJ.com http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/rutgers_faces_layoffs_severe_c.html eugene

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NYTimes.com: Fiat Chief Warns Chrysler Unions of Need for Cuts
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BUSINESS / GLOBAL BUSINESS | April 16, 2009 Fiat Chief Warns Chrysler Unions of Need for Cuts By REUTERS Facing a two-week deadline to work out a partnership with Chrysler, the Fiat chief warned the unions that he would ditch the idea unless they agreed to cut labor costs. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/global/16fiat.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Pipe Made in India Incenses Illinois Town
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BUSINESS / ECONOMY | April 16, 2009 Pipe Made in India Incenses Illinois Town By LOUIS UCHITELLE Unions began to widen their efforts against imported steel after a train's foreign freight for an oil pipeline project was spotted in Granite City, Ill. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/economy/16pipe.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: After Years of Rancor, Yale and Unions Reach Deals Early
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. NEW YORK REGION | April 16, 2009 After Years of Rancor, Yale and Unions Reach Deals Early By STEVEN GREENHOUSE The agreements represented a sharp turn from Yale's labor history, which had earned the university what was often called the worst labor record in American academia. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/nyregion/16yale.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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Illegal immigration slowdown in California
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

This story was sent to you by: eugene -------------------- Illegal immigration slowdown in California -------------------- After years of rapid growth, the state's illegal immigrant population is increasing more gradually, a study finds. Many migrants are bypassing California for other states. By Teresa Watanabe April 15 2009 In five years of social outreach at Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Los Angeles, Guillermo Armenta has always seen more parishioners stream into this historic haven for illegal immigrants than leave. Until now. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigrants15-2009apr15… Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

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NYTimes.com: Study Sees More Young Citizens With Parents in the U.S. Illegally
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. US | April 15, 2009 Study Sees More Young Citizens With Parents in the U.S. Illegally By JULIA PRESTON About four million American children have at least one parent who lacks legal immigration status, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15immig.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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NYTimes.com: Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules
by sagauro＠rci.rutgers.edu 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

This page was sent to you by: sagauro(a)rci.rutgers.edu. BUSINESS | April 12, 2009 Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules By MATT RICHTEL Technology executives say restrictive visa and immigration limits have imperiled their ability to hire more of the world's best engineers. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12immig.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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ILWCH and CWW present Kate Hardy: Sex Worker Organzing in Argentina
by Eugene McElroy 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

On Tuesday, May 5th at noon, the Rutgers-based journal International Labor and Working Class History (ILWCH) and the Center for Women and Work (CWW) will present visiting scholar Kate Hardy speaking on "Organizing Sex Workers in Argentina." Please see the attached flyer -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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[IWS] AAUP: 2008-09 ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE PROFESSION [14 April 2009]]
by Eugene McElroy 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

American Association of University Professors (AAUP 2008-09 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession [14 April 2009] http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/comm/rep/Z/ecstatreport08-09/ or http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/0A07ADBE-930F-461E-9140-C74F24122949/0/zre… [full-text, List of Tables and Figures http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/comm/rep/Z/ecstatreport08-09/TOC.htm Explanation of Statistical Data http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/comm/rep/Z/ecstatreport08-09/explan.htm tables as one file (.pdf) http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/62878A49-20D1-4324-A568-1B00B5078CB9/0/All… Appendix I State tables (for specific institutions) (.pdf) http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/5DD7E489-5048-4035-AE40-0CA1A39E9780/0/App… Appendix II Two-Year Institutions without Academic Ranks (.pdf) http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/00D1FCF4-B560-4ACE-BBBC-C00D7C70CB9D/0/App… [excerpt from Press Release, 14 April 2009] With the broader economy in free fall and new indicators reported almost daily, the economic outlook for faculty members and higher education is anything but clear. <http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/comm/rep/Z/ecstatreport08-09/> On the Brink: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 200809 provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis available of faculty salaries at colleges and universities around the country. Even so, the data alone dont tell the whole story. Thats why this years report encourages faculty members to take action now to ensure that cuts to higher education funding do not undermine the foundation upon which colleges and universities are built: their faculties. Wrong choices now, the report warns, could have negative consequences for years to come. The American Association of University Professors annual report has been an authoritative source of data on faculty salaries and compensation for decades, and this years report is now available. When full-time faculty salary levels for this academic year were set in mid-2008, inflation was running at its highest rate in nearly twenty years. Average faculty salaries had been stagnant for most of the previous decade and were budgeted to stay that wayuntil the bottom fell out of the rest of the economy. Soon after the academic year was underway, consumer prices tumbled along with investment returns, and colleges and universities began announcing salary and hiring freezes, involuntary furloughs, and even layoffs. Labor economist Saranna Thornton, chair of the AAUPs Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession and lead author of this years report, notes that On paper, aggregate faculty salaries for this year look pretty good, since inflation is suddenly at its lowest level in half a century. But it wont be until we have next years data that we can begin to assess the true consequences of the recession of 2008 on higher education. Given the dark clouds looming on the horizon, Thornton notes that it will be difficult for faculty members to focus on the silver lining of a low inflation rate. Much of the recent news from private colleges and universities has focused on the loss of value in their endowment funds during the last year. Although institutional endowments have clearly declined, just as have individual retirement investments, colleges and universities vary in their reliance upon endowment income for general operating costs. This years report takes a look at some of that variation. Given the wide range of financial circumstances at colleges and universities around the country, cautions John Curtis, AAUPs director of research and public policy, its important for faculty members to investigate the real impact of reduced returns to endowment funds on their own institutions. In this years report, the AAUP calls on faculty now more than ever to take an active role in collaborative decision making on institutional spending, to examine critically the claims of administrations and legislatures alike regarding the financial situation of higher education, and to raise questions about the inevitability and the advisability of cuts to faculty salaries and positions. Probably the most salient feature of the higher education landscape in the last three decades has been the increasing insecurity of faculty employment. More than half of all faculty members are now hired on a part-time basis, one course at a time, most often with no job security and no benefits. This years report documents the latest comprehensive figures on the expansion of contingent faculty appointments, both part-time and full-time, and provides a sampling of reports on how contingent faculty members are faring in the economic downturn. This years report also adds to the AAUPs ongoing analysis of gender equity in faculty employment with fresh data on trends in womens advancement through the faculty ranks. Although many colleges and universities are approaching parity between men and women in entry-level assistant professor appointments, the report notes that progress in advancing women to senior professor ranks is slower. At universities granting doctoral degrees, there are still four men full professors for every woman holding that rank. The substantial remaining impediments to womens advancement as faculty members reinforce the AAUPs longstanding call for higher education to renew its commitment to complete equality of opportunity for women. AAUP members receive the report in their March/April issue Academe as a membership benefit. Non-AAUP members may order copies of the report by visiting the <http://www.aaup.org/Forms/Store/cataloguepubs.htm> AAUPs online store. The cost of the report is $83.00. **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations Library 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 732-932-9513 tel: 732-932-9513 ********

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