tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37385602011-04-21T21:32:14.535-05:00awakeningThe 10am air-raid sirenrbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17645882498069787624noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-78477796840664337472008-03-14T11:51:00.000-05:002008-03-14T11:52:35.496-05:00The stagnation of the NIH budget -- five years of flat funding and verging on a sixth -- is putting biomedical research at grave risk.I saw this happen in physics. The Cold War was over, and with it died public excitement over physics and the funding which physics research needed. Of the nuclear theory graduate students I knew, none of them remained in nuclear theory despite an abundance of Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-50185580922477505882008-03-14T11:49:00.000-05:002008-03-14T11:50:24.442-05:00Test. -Rosemary BraunWestringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1128529064164371922005-10-05T11:16:00.000-05:002005-10-05T11:17:44.170-05:00My main homepage is now hosted at http://braun.tx0.org.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1100878588207262102004-11-19T08:58:00.000-06:002004-11-19T09:36:56.683-06:00A team of UC Berkeley researchers (http://ucdata.berkeley.edu) have issued a working paper The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections in which they examine the statistics of Bush support by county in Fla for 2000 and 2004 and find a correlation with electronic voting machines.
Author's Summary:
Irregularities associated with electronic Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1096518745631790602004-09-29T23:29:00.000-05:002004-09-29T23:32:25.630-05:00There's an underhanded attempt underway to stuff into legislative action a piece of a bill that would make it easier to extradite persons to random countries in which they would have no reasonable expectation of fair treatment -- read: outsourcing torture, legally.
Learn about the bill and Rep Markey's (MA) amendment to fix it HERE; link to it; tell your friends; and write to your representative.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1087989320709630232004-06-23T06:14:00.000-05:002004-06-23T06:29:02.743-05:00The State of Illinois wants 2% back from the UI budget. Across the bargaining table the UI is suggesting that if we have any pull with the supposedly pro-labor governor we should take GEO's economic proposals up with him, and people are getting sacked -- an unusual thing for a state university, where usually the comparatively crappy pay is made up for by the comparatively greater job stability.
Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1082140413714890502004-04-16T13:22:00.000-05:002004-04-16T13:38:10.030-05:00News from the local demonstration: series of articles and realtime updates from the takeover of the Swanlund administration building in protest of the University of Illinois' racially insensitive mascot, written by a sitter-in and posted via wireless from within the occupied building. Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1081269262800309982004-04-06T11:34:00.000-05:002004-04-06T11:44:30.310-05:00Yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education [paid subscribers only; universities generally have something for students & staff, such as UIUC's] reported on an ambitious program at UI Springfield to put all their degree programs online in addition to their brick-and-mortar classrooms.
By this fall, the Springfield campus will have eight degree programs online, made up of about 175 online courses...Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1079639502619307702004-03-18T13:45:00.000-06:002004-03-18T14:09:08.326-06:00Two steps back:
* Gov't stops investigating gay bias claims in civil service
* LGBT federal workers lose job protections
-- reasons #7978 and #7989 why we all need strong nondiscrimination language in our contracts. With people like this making decisions, relying on the law alone isn't enough.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1079529488163888132004-03-17T07:01:00.000-06:002004-03-17T07:22:10.856-06:00Weirton Steel (Weirton, WV) announced last week its plans to cut health and life insurance benefits to its retirees. Yesterday, a judge upheld Weirton's decision. The Independant Steelworkers Union seems resigned to the outcome (a disappointing but expected development), framing it as the national issue which it is. What remains of Weirton's self-slashed workforce is still on the job. Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1079466947593157522004-03-16T13:55:00.000-06:002004-03-16T14:01:41.466-06:00French scientists strike:
In response to research funding cuts by Chirac's government and following weeks of protest, French scientists have stopped their research and issued the government a deadline by which they can either accept the resignations of over 2000 researchers, or address the funding issues. [With thanks to E.V.]Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1074192971982725942004-01-15T12:56:00.000-06:002004-01-15T13:29:51.233-06:00So, I started to reply to a post made by Dave, but then it turned into a rant and his comment software rightfully stifled me. Since this is my damn blog, I'll rant here!
As Dave implied, when a good economist makes a prediction they'll do something a lot more sophisticated than the simple models we'd been talking about. Picking out patterns isn't an easy thing to do, mathematically speaking -- Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1073667863405328482004-01-09T11:04:00.000-06:002004-01-09T11:07:28.076-06:00Who ya gonna believe?
Experts predict dwindling use of pesticides, The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL), January 8, 2004:
During their keynote addresses on the state of their industries, members of the seed, agrichemical and pest management industries said that as more farmers switch to growing genetically modified crops, such as Monsanto's YieldGard Rootworm corn, fewer farmers will rely on Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1069253414647067982003-11-19T08:50:00.000-06:002003-11-19T08:52:02.466-06:00The Massachusetts Supreme Court doesn't suck. Mitt Romney still does, though. (The fact that George Bush's knickers are in a twist over this shouldn't be surprising.) If I still lived in MA, you'd get to read a longer rant about Mitt. But I don't, and really his archaic sensibilities speak for themselves.
And locally? Failing marriage, I'd like to see the UI offer domestic partner benefits Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1062168408096897702003-08-29T09:46:00.000-05:002003-08-29T09:46:48.080-05:00It was bad enough that the Bush Administration took advantage of the "War on Terrorism" to deprive federal workers of their ability to form and join unions; now, Bush has decided to dramatically limit their raises for this year. The raises are so deeply cut that, at 2%, they do not cover the increases in either the employment price index (up 2.7% this year) or the consumer price index (up 2.1% Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-1060614455004111122003-08-11T10:07:00.000-05:002003-08-11T10:07:35.006-05:00Wow, I've been remiss. It seems at least one person actually looks at this from time to time, so I suppose I have an obligation to keep it up :) Nevertheless, after 4 months...
Blogger's redesigned their interface, and it's nicer. Today is my half-birthday.
The UI has decided that it would be a good idea to force thousands of its professional employees to take a five-day involunary furlough Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-935960192003-05-01T09:33:00.000-05:002003-05-01T09:33:44.126-05:00We want to feel the sunshine, and we want to smell the flowers,
We are sure that God has will'd it, and we mean to have eight hours.
We're summoning our forces from the shipyard, shop, and mill:
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!
Happy May Day!Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-927424662003-04-16T17:49:00.000-05:002003-04-17T17:59:49.000-05:00It's turning out to be a rotten day. I don't usually post about *me*, but I'm in a self-pitying mood -- I can't shake this damn cold. I've had it since before Sanjay's wedding, which makes it about three weeks old. I'm trying to concentrate, but everything seems so hazy. I've gone to the health center and gotten nowhere; nothing, apparently, is particularly wrong -- I just have a virus that Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-924403692003-04-11T12:46:00.000-05:002003-04-13T16:16:40.000-05:00Despite US Labor Against the War's very admirable efforts, some locals and councils persist in supporting the war, seeing it (erroniously) as a way to somehow vanquish 01.09.11.
Perhaps they haven't considered the vast domestic cost of this military engagement.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-923124192003-04-09T15:23:00.000-05:002003-04-09T15:23:35.000-05:00The UI wants to balance its budget on the backs of its cheapest instructional labor: TAs and non-tenure-track faculty. In an article in yesterday's News Gazette, some figures for jobs lost as a result of the budget cuts were given (scroll to end). You'll notice that as the projected cut increases, the proportion of TA jobs lost rises (15.6% at $51.2M vs. 34.5% at $77.1M). Moreover, when the Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-923110332003-04-09T15:00:00.000-05:002003-04-09T15:00:11.310-05:00Last night, members of the Champaign City Council killed the proposed Living Wage Resolution in a study session, voting 7-2 not to even *consider* adopting the measure.
Of the three large governing bodies in the area, the City of Champaign is the only one not to adopt it; the Urbana City Council (unanimously) and the Champaign County Board both passed it in a bipartisan vote.
Last night's Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-923051812003-04-09T13:18:00.000-05:002003-04-16T11:04:40.000-05:00A couple weeks back, the United States ">awarded a contract valued at nearly $5M to SSA for managining the key Iraqi port of Umm Qsar.
SSA, you may recall, was the company whose management was largely responsible for the lockout of longshoremen last fall; as if it were not enough that the Bush administration threatened to break the labor stalemate by using military personel as scab workers and Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-888137282003-02-09T15:34:00.000-06:002003-02-09T15:39:25.000-06:00A letter for the Nat'l Right to Work [sic] Legal Defense and Educational Foundation declares that union organizing drive "presents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States" and that west coast longshoremen "exploited America's urgent economic and national security needs." The letter is signed by Tom Delay, the House majority leader, although he vigorously denies having seenWestringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-878024142003-01-21T15:30:00.000-06:002003-01-21T15:31:42.000-06:00Sunday's Chicago Tribune reported that UI administrators and trustees used our tax and tuition dollars to give themselves nice little perks like chartered flights, while the rest of us went without cost-of-living raises while our healthcare expenses went up. Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-872283722003-01-10T12:31:00.000-06:002003-01-10T12:38:15.000-06:00Integration, UI style [with thanks to barryi]:
The UI is planning a series of diversity events for Martin Luther King Day. They produced this brochure for their events.
Get yourself to a nice, slow computer and take a look at page two. In the lower left there is a picture of what appears to be be a racially diverse group of men and women standing happily together. But if you're on a slow Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-859141272002-12-12T16:13:00.000-06:002002-12-12T16:13:01.630-06:00It's impossible to watch the UI Board of Trustees' decisions without getting outraged. It goes like this:
The State of Illinois is in the red, in a bad way. There's several billions worth of bills which the State hasn't yet paid. And, as a result, the Illinois Board of Higher Education is now saying that faculty and staff will get meager raises (if all all), that tuition will increase, and Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-855614862002-12-05T17:12:00.000-06:002002-12-05T17:12:01.836-06:00VICTORY.
Grads elected union representation by 1188 to 347 votes. The numbers speak for themselves, but here is the press release anyhow.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-853791342002-12-02T09:18:00.000-06:002002-12-02T09:19:11.000-06:00Happy December! The GEO election is tomorrow and the day after; and (for a change) the coverage in the DI isn't contributing to the ulcer which I've been cultivating since the labor board set the election date. Good thing, too, because the health insurance we have now makes a mockery of the word "care."
But we're gonna change that.
Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-844351142002-11-12T15:11:00.000-06:002002-11-12T15:53:10.000-06:00Brilliant. I know I complain about the DI a lot, but they've gone from simple, untenable bias to error ridden reporting. They're either unbelievably incompetant, or they're trying to reduce voter turnout deliberately -- probably the former.
Yesterday's piece reported that the election will be held Dec 6 (it's the 3rd & 4th). Today's piece reported that all first-year assistantship holder are Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-844346822002-11-12T15:01:00.000-06:002002-11-12T15:02:31.000-06:00*sigh* No time for blogging these days. Last week, while I was out of town at a conference about higher ed unions, the IELRB set GEO's election date. From now until Dec 3 & 4, it's going to be stressful days of campaigning and sleepless nights of research. I'm exhausted. I've never been more stressed. And I've never been happier.
Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-837776842002-10-30T11:06:00.000-06:002002-10-30T11:06:52.803-06:00It just doesn't die. The Daily Illini has managed to glean two articles and an editorial within the past week and a half about GEO's refusal to take part in a GSAC sponsored debate against a now-defunct anti-union group named SATURN. I'm not going to take the time right now to link directly to the online articles, but you can search them out yourself at dailyillini.com.
GEO refused to Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-834717872002-10-24T13:40:00.000-05:002002-10-24T13:42:21.000-05:00Last Saturday, during an anti-war protest, physics professor Mike Weissman and statistician Ellen Fireman were slapped with a $75 ticket each for jaywalking after they stepped off the curb to leaflet a car. If the police are concerned about jaywalkers, they really ought to see the mayhem in the Green and Wright intersection. How odd that that isn't their priority.
About the same time, a Cop I Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-834709832002-10-24T13:22:00.000-05:002002-10-30T11:09:08.000-06:00It did, in fact, get someone's attention: there was an article in Tuesday's DI about the Altgeld roof, Sheetmetal 218's picket, and Renaissance's bad record. (Back on 3 Oct, I'd called up the DI to pass along to them the story of Renaissance's EEOC violations reported in a Rockford paper.) The Rockford article didn't do it, but the filing of an OSHA complaint by Carpenter's 44 against Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-830615162002-10-16T09:12:00.000-05:002002-10-16T09:15:13.000-05:00Sheetmetal 218 update: they're now picketting Altgeld, the second of the two buildings to be worked on by Renaissance. Maybe the fact that it's along Wright St will get somebody's attention.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-827603552002-10-09T17:12:00.000-05:002002-10-09T17:18:49.000-05:00This ad ran on the uiuc.jobs.cs newsgroup. Besides being a bit scary (biometrics?!), it's an interesting nugget of university corporatization:
Newsgroups: uiuc.cs.jobs
From: Charles Clancy
Subject: RA positions in CSL for crypto and security (F02 - F03)
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 02:49:22 -0500
The Cryptography and Information Protection research group in the Coordinated Science Laboratory is Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-824667232002-10-03T09:15:00.000-05:002003-02-09T15:38:28.000-06:00The longshoremen on the West Coast have been working without a contract for months now. The negotiations between management & ILWU have stalled, badly. When ILWU threatened a strike, Bush stepped in and said that he would break the strike in the interest of "national security." ILWU scrupulously observed safety rules (after having lost 4 workers in half years' time to on-the-job accidents) and Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-824664012002-10-03T09:06:00.000-05:002002-10-03T09:06:08.800-05:00The Aug and Sept archives somehow have grown an ad banner, despite the fact that I paid blogger to get rid of them. *grumble*Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-824184152002-10-02T10:02:00.000-05:002002-10-03T14:36:58.000-05:00The plot thickens: Remember Renaissance Roofers, the ones who were hired by the UI to replace the David Kinley Hall roof? The ones that are undermining everyone's hard-won working conditions by paying their employees less than the prevailing wage? (Yes, this one.) Turns out, they have a history of discrimination as well.
The EEOC on Monday filed a suit alleging that Renaissance Roofers harassedWestringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-823316722002-09-30T16:37:00.000-05:002002-09-30T16:38:55.000-05:00My LTTE finally ran in the NG on Saturday. Peeve: they dropped my office with the GEO from my signature. Now, I wouldn't be upset if they did this to everybody, but the fellow who wrote to voice strong support of Winkel and Burns (villifying "liberals" along the way) managed to have his business' name printed. (Their edit also changed one sentence of my letter from active to passive voice for Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-822100392002-09-27T16:23:00.000-05:002002-09-27T16:42:09.000-05:00800 workers and students were arrested yesterday in New Haven as part of a civil disobedience action to gain raises and benefits for Yale employees. (At the same time, 9 peace protesters in CA, 14 peace protesters in ME, and several hundred IMF/WB protesters in DC were also arrested).
It was a strange protest, in a way: the plan was vetted by the police department, and the protesters filled out Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-820492132002-09-24T11:24:00.000-05:002002-09-24T11:26:40.000-05:00It's been a media-rich week.
The letters to the editors about the sheetmetal worker's picket are away; we'll see if it's used, and in what form. You can read my original just in case :)
The GEO also broke the news of the UI administration refusing a neutrality agreement last week. WILL picked it up and aired it the next morning; the News-Gazette, which totally missed the point, also printed itWestringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-817743942002-09-18T09:57:00.000-05:002002-10-02T10:14:31.000-05:00(My friend believes I should write a letter to the local papers, but today's hectic already so... blog today, real composition tomorrow. Don't let me forget.)
For a week now, Sheetmetal Workers 218 has been picketting David Kinley Hall on the UI campus because non-union workers are being employed to put a new roof on the building. The nonunion contractor, Renaissance Roofers of Rockford, IL, Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-816743232002-09-16T10:11:00.000-05:002002-09-16T10:33:06.000-05:00Today's Chronicle of Higher Education reports, "Higher education in Arab countries remains seriously inadequate, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum." (Here is the full article, although you may need a subscription to see it; and here is the WEF report.) It's old news, really -- reports of faltering higher education in Middle Eastern and North African countries have been Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-816490322002-09-15T20:03:00.000-05:002002-09-16T11:58:42.000-05:00While I was busily ranting about the UI's funding of the stadium remodelling, the UI Board of Trustees was considering this year's budget. They voted down a proposal by Gerald Shea to award a 3% or $3000 raise -- whichever is lower -- to UI employees who make under $150K/yr. Shea suggested that the money from unfilled positions be used to fund the raises, but the rest of the Board wasn't happy Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-816480932002-09-15T19:38:00.000-05:002002-09-24T11:29:42.000-05:00I was off to a wine tasting yesterday afternoon when I saw my neighbour Peter on top of his roof. He and Dave Young were installing an antenna, which means I'll now be in range of a community wireless node and be able to blog from my back yard. These are the moments I love Urbana.
Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-815190262002-09-12T14:42:00.000-05:002002-09-16T09:26:21.000-05:00The UI is considering expending many millions of dollars on Assembly Hall renovations. The UI apparently commisioned a study by a Minneapolis architecture firm to evaluate "the feasibility of modernizing the 39-year-old Assembly Hall in line with standards set by newer multi-use and basketball facilities," and the changes (which include better (but fewer) seats, a clubhouse, and airconditioning Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-815060422002-09-12T09:09:00.000-05:002002-09-12T09:35:34.000-05:00I was on the quad for a bit of yesterday's 9/11 commemoration; it was very nice. There were peace signs all over, and not only held by the Usual Crowd -- tons of new faces. Everyone was respectful of one another, regardless of political views. It was exactly how it should have been.
For me, yesterday started out with a piece of email which convinced me that people actually do read my words in Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-813530782002-09-09T07:50:00.000-05:002002-09-09T08:34:17.000-05:00This morning, WILL ran a local audio feature by Jim Meadows about AWARE. Everyone from AWARE was very well spoken. Mr Meadows' report seemed to have the quality of a specimin jar, though, as if he were trying very hard to avoid any possible association with the objects of his report.
The piece itself, (misleadingly) titled "Voices from the Far Left," is linked from NPR's website Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-812991372002-09-07T21:47:00.000-05:002002-09-07T22:59:03.000-05:00Thursday afternoon, I had an interview with a Daily Illini reporter; my first as "official" GEO copres. The article ran yesterday.
The story was this: the UI, under a budget crunch, froze the pay of grads (and others, but who and how is another rant entirely), but since the incoming grads were already promised pay at the increased rates -- whereas the existing grads are pormised nothing, since Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-812985882002-09-07T21:29:00.000-05:002002-09-07T21:29:39.166-05:00Ok, I'm getting clorser to having this blog look consistent with the rest of my pages under Netscape 4.x. The trouble, of course, is that Netscape isn't fully css friendly -- you can see how bad it is from the CSS compatability chart -- but it's in such common use that I feel the need to pander to its anolmalies. Hrm.Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-810906932002-09-03T09:38:00.000-05:002002-09-03T09:55:46.000-05:00I missed my bus this morning, and it was a good thing I did, because I got to hear a short NPR interview (realaudio) of Joan Hinton.
Hinton, an American nuclear physicist, emigrated to China in 1948, escaping the Manhattan project and working instead on agricultural production in a country which reflected her Maoist beliefs. It's a story with so many interesting elements -- of being a female Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-810701532002-09-02T21:40:00.000-05:002002-09-02T21:40:20.790-05:00Happy Labor Day! Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-810158032002-09-01T22:46:00.000-05:002002-09-03T08:18:04.000-05:00Argh. The online NYTimes is currently running a fron-page article on "Laid off workers swelling the cost of disability pay" (and here's a link to a static copy since the online NYT isn't exactly... fast).
[As an aside -- it's still 1 Sept 2002, even in New York, but already they've dated it the 2nd -- Labor Day. Ahh, anticipating the news...]
The article talks about how workers have turned to Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-810029772002-09-01T15:30:00.000-05:002002-09-01T15:45:41.000-05:00On Barry's recommendation, I just finished Philip Dick's Radio Free Albemuth; I devoured it in a couple day's time, not long after reading The Crying of Lot 49 -- it's been a paranoid couple of weeks.
I can't recommend them enough; RFA is particularly startling.
It's now back to Fred Jerome's The Einstein File. It's nonfiction, for a change, and thus frightening for other reasons. The things Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-810023972002-09-01T15:11:00.000-05:002002-09-01T15:34:57.000-05:00Someone wasn't thinking clearly; maybe it was the alcohol.
The management (in Illinois, near Chicago) of Jim Beam decided that it would be a good idea to restrict the bathroom access of workers in their whiskey bottling plants (down in Kentucky). The UFCW has been fighting this policy, and it's gotten a bit of media attention (but not much).
What I don't understand is this: did the executives Westringia F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738560.post-808884972002-08-29T16:45:00.000-05:002002-08-29T17:15:46.000-05:00Alright, this'll be the $generic_bloggable, so that I can stop spamming my friends. Let's see how it goes.
Westringia F.noreply@blogger.com