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Workers take a cut in pay to save their jobs . The new $10 an hour jobs make the front page two days in a row.
U.S. keeps going through the most massive dislocation of jobs in its history with this story still untold.
This is the story that is headlined ----
NOSE PICKER NEWS
Looks like I have come up with phrase to describe the news from major news channels that does not get to the core of a issue and how this type of reporting infects other news down the line. We have come to a time in history when major news channels mask the real news with masks behind masks. I told about this at
Confetti News - Newspapers shred the news
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Fractured Jobs and Fractured news
The title of nose picker news came to me after I told about an experience when I was called upon to resolve computer disk storage problems and error recovery . A large utility data center had crashed and their whole library of disk pack storage devices failed. This meant that something acted in domino fashion going from one disk drive to another. I brought in all my testing devices and start checking the disk packs one by one. The balance and calibration was fine and so some foreign element had to physically spread from disk pack to disk pack crashing the disk storage data center completely. I checked and rechecked all the possibilities but could not find an answer until I found a strange clear substance on the disk platter and in checking other disk packs, I found more of this sticky substance infecting other disks. The substance had to be riding on the read write heads of the disk drive which all ruin the heads at the same time. I study the substance and finally realized that one of the operator who switched disk packs was picking his nose on the job. The gook from his nose finally affected the whole library.
The current reporting of the news resembles this infectious process. Elements of the news are covered but the main causes, effects and core issues are not developed. This starts a process where a whole issue had an overlay of apparent news but never gets to the real world issue behind the reporting.
I came across a gem of an example by our top newspaper in the state. The had a large front page story about some workers who stopped the closedown of their factory. It had two headlines on each side of the pictures of the MEET THE WOMEN WHO HELPED KEEP HUGO BOSS IN TOWN on one side and HOW SHEILA MCVAY AND WANDA NAVARRO TOOK ON OUTSOURCING -AND WON. The story is by Olivera Perkins Plain Dealer Reporter.
The next day, the front page continued the story as the Second of Two Parts - with the headline reading WORKERS' FAITH, PERSEVERENC PAY OFF AT THE BARGAINING TABLE. They took pay cuts while at the same time , others still lost their jobs.
Here is the end result . Some distant money changers controlled the company and lawyers were sent in to close down the factory. The unions and the workers ended up negotiating and the plant remained open. Hugo Boos makes suits that Hollywood stars like Jeff Bridges, George Clooney and Tom Cruise buy for more than $1,000 apiece. This is the setting of the story. After three pages devoted to the story on the first day and two pages more on the second day , this is the ending of the story. There were only about 350 workers to begin with. Only about one half of the jobs were saved. The company had accepted the union proposal - $10 an hour, a $3- per-hour pay cut. All the union workers who did not return go severance paay, whether they left by choice or were not called back. The union said it was sad that one everyone could come back.
The news story reports it as a - A LIFE -CHANGING EMPOWERING VICTORY .
It sounds OK for a news story but see what you think after we tell you what they did not write about.
Hugo Boss is a grandchild of Joseph & Feiss Company that once employed up to 3,000 workers. It was taken over by Phillips-van-Heusen who now has plants in places like Guatamala, Costa Rico, Brazil, the Far East and Hong Kong. The line of succession went through several money changers and companies. It was even difficult for the reporter of the present day news story to figure out who are now the owners.
Joseph and Feiss fail apart the same way as hundreds of other companies in the Cleveland Ohio region where thousands of production workers once enjoyed living wage to middle class jobs. My call booklet that I carried for many years, has all these companies. There were many who employed more than a thousand to five thousand workers and these companies were considered to be mid size companies. Companies that employed only 300 workers back then, were not noticed that much in the news. Their openings and closings were just routine events. There were only small notices in the newspapers. Today a company saves only about 200 jobs where workers take about a 25 percent cut in pay and it is written up as if it is victory for workers everywhere.
Is this what we have come to? Free trade and globalization came driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people with the Federal Government acting as a dealer and broker and the U.S. went through the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression. A few years ago, the president of Fruit of the Loom told the press that even if his workers in the U.S. worked for nothing, he could still not keep the plants open.
This is the real story behind the Hugh Boss news. How can this be a victory when so much has been lost.
I worked in several factories while going to college and made the equivalent of $15 to $20 an hour in the 1950s. If these jobs were available today, literally thousands of people would be standing in line to get them including college graduates. All the factories are gone. Looking at my call book that I carried for many years, I go through pages of companies that had 500 or more workers with some employing up to 20,000 . Today our larges employer in our region is the Federal Government followed by state and local governments. The next largest employers are in the medical field that also need government money to survive. It is a no win situation with no one wanting to call the game for what it is.
The nose picker news channels still do not talk about this or what really happened in the destruction of the American Dream and the devaluation of workers dignity and economic worth. This is the real story of our times that goes unreported. Instead they report a victory for workers who pick up crumbs that have fallen off the money changers table. And who would think that a liberal Democrat President like President Obama would bail out the money changers while ignoring the plight of millions of suffering workers.
Workers take a cut in pay to save their jobs . The new $10 an hour jobs make the front page two days in a row.
U.S. keeps going through the most massive dislocation of jobs in its history with this story still untold.
This is the story that is headlined ----
NOSE PICKER NEWS
Looks like I have come up with phrase to describe the news from major news channels that does not get to the core of a issue and how this type of reporting infects other news down the line. We have come to a time in history when major news channels mask the real news with masks behind masks. I told about this at
Confetti News - Newspapers shred the news
Masks behind masks news. July 27th 2010 15:20. Ray Tapajna Chronicles news and info since 1998 sites at Tapsearch Com Super Links ...
Real World News
Nose pickers news - Ethics Box
Aug 4, 2010 ... Tne Nose Pickers Politickers. Ray Tapajna Chronicles --Series ( Mobile .... and reporters in most major news channels are nose pickers who ...
Nose picking the news
Nose picker news reporting
Aug 5, 2010 ... Regular news channels not serving the people - nose picker news reporting - Stories ... Ray Tapajna Chronicles and Tapsearch Com presents : ...
Fractured Jobs and Fractured news
The title of nose picker news came to me after I told about an experience when I was called upon to resolve computer disk storage problems and error recovery . A large utility data center had crashed and their whole library of disk pack storage devices failed. This meant that something acted in domino fashion going from one disk drive to another. I brought in all my testing devices and start checking the disk packs one by one. The balance and calibration was fine and so some foreign element had to physically spread from disk pack to disk pack crashing the disk storage data center completely. I checked and rechecked all the possibilities but could not find an answer until I found a strange clear substance on the disk platter and in checking other disk packs, I found more of this sticky substance infecting other disks. The substance had to be riding on the read write heads of the disk drive which all ruin the heads at the same time. I study the substance and finally realized that one of the operator who switched disk packs was picking his nose on the job. The gook from his nose finally affected the whole library.
The current reporting of the news resembles this infectious process. Elements of the news are covered but the main causes, effects and core issues are not developed. This starts a process where a whole issue had an overlay of apparent news but never gets to the real world issue behind the reporting.
I came across a gem of an example by our top newspaper in the state. The had a large front page story about some workers who stopped the closedown of their factory. It had two headlines on each side of the pictures of the MEET THE WOMEN WHO HELPED KEEP HUGO BOSS IN TOWN on one side and HOW SHEILA MCVAY AND WANDA NAVARRO TOOK ON OUTSOURCING -AND WON. The story is by Olivera Perkins Plain Dealer Reporter.
The next day, the front page continued the story as the Second of Two Parts - with the headline reading WORKERS' FAITH, PERSEVERENC PAY OFF AT THE BARGAINING TABLE. They took pay cuts while at the same time , others still lost their jobs.
Here is the end result . Some distant money changers controlled the company and lawyers were sent in to close down the factory. The unions and the workers ended up negotiating and the plant remained open. Hugo Boos makes suits that Hollywood stars like Jeff Bridges, George Clooney and Tom Cruise buy for more than $1,000 apiece. This is the setting of the story. After three pages devoted to the story on the first day and two pages more on the second day , this is the ending of the story. There were only about 350 workers to begin with. Only about one half of the jobs were saved. The company had accepted the union proposal - $10 an hour, a $3- per-hour pay cut. All the union workers who did not return go severance paay, whether they left by choice or were not called back. The union said it was sad that one everyone could come back.
The news story reports it as a - A LIFE -CHANGING EMPOWERING VICTORY .
It sounds OK for a news story but see what you think after we tell you what they did not write about.
Hugo Boss is a grandchild of Joseph & Feiss Company that once employed up to 3,000 workers. It was taken over by Phillips-van-Heusen who now has plants in places like Guatamala, Costa Rico, Brazil, the Far East and Hong Kong. The line of succession went through several money changers and companies. It was even difficult for the reporter of the present day news story to figure out who are now the owners.
Joseph and Feiss fail apart the same way as hundreds of other companies in the Cleveland Ohio region where thousands of production workers once enjoyed living wage to middle class jobs. My call booklet that I carried for many years, has all these companies. There were many who employed more than a thousand to five thousand workers and these companies were considered to be mid size companies. Companies that employed only 300 workers back then, were not noticed that much in the news. Their openings and closings were just routine events. There were only small notices in the newspapers. Today a company saves only about 200 jobs where workers take about a 25 percent cut in pay and it is written up as if it is victory for workers everywhere.
Is this what we have come to? Free trade and globalization came driven by powerful forces outside the will of the people with the Federal Government acting as a dealer and broker and the U.S. went through the most massive dislocation of jobs in U.S. history including the Great Depression. A few years ago, the president of Fruit of the Loom told the press that even if his workers in the U.S. worked for nothing, he could still not keep the plants open.
This is the real story behind the Hugh Boss news. How can this be a victory when so much has been lost.
I worked in several factories while going to college and made the equivalent of $15 to $20 an hour in the 1950s. If these jobs were available today, literally thousands of people would be standing in line to get them including college graduates. All the factories are gone. Looking at my call book that I carried for many years, I go through pages of companies that had 500 or more workers with some employing up to 20,000 . Today our larges employer in our region is the Federal Government followed by state and local governments. The next largest employers are in the medical field that also need government money to survive. It is a no win situation with no one wanting to call the game for what it is.
The nose picker news channels still do not talk about this or what really happened in the destruction of the American Dream and the devaluation of workers dignity and economic worth. This is the real story of our times that goes unreported. Instead they report a victory for workers who pick up crumbs that have fallen off the money changers table. And who would think that a liberal Democrat President like President Obama would bail out the money changers while ignoring the plight of millions of suffering workers.
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Forward post above and the site above to everyone in the world who is concerned by the degradation of human dignity in the world world
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Then, this is where it gets tough, but those of us who still have some discretionary income really have to look for the "made in USA" labels to boost the local economy. Lots of people can't afford that luxury anymore -- but we do have to keep the money close to home.
Also, take a look at the New York Times (8/19/10) and see the report that Dr. Pepper-Snapple is demanding that workers take a pay cut, even though the company is making big profits. I haven't looked, but I'm sure there's a web site that lists companies like that -- since it may influence buying habits.
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President Obama bailed out the money changers who are the cause of our economic crisis. Our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out. It is like 1937-38 all over again. Back then President Roosevelt played out all his cards in trying to bail out the money people and found out that it was an endless game.
Nothing much will happen until we identify who are the globalist free traders among us. We need to ask who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. We also need to ask why did our own Federal Government sponsor the moving of factories outside of the U.S. starting in 1956
We have replaced the middle class production workers with the working poor and in places like Walmart, many workers need government assistance to survive.
Most likely those who save their jobs by taking a pay cut will most likely need at least food stamps for their families to survive. So in essence, the worker takes less pay but then has to make it up some other way in order for their families to survive. This means we really are paying an inherent tariff on the imports .
We are now facing a future, where people will vote more in the check out line than in the voting booth about what kind of society they want. If they keep shopping their way out of their jobs, there is not end to the cycle and all the bail outs in the world will not stop the race to the bottom.
Ben Bernanke , Fed Chairman told Congress directly during the Bush stimulus package that the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods."
And actually President Clinton passed the first stimulus package in 1994-95. It went to a foreign nation - Mexico. President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso and the Mexican economy. This came just after he pushed the passage of NAFTA and GATT free trade agreements. The number of U.S. factories moved to Mexico doubled to more than 4,000 after NAFTA was passed. This helped no one as millions of Mexican fled to the USA for the sake of economic survival because they would not take the $1 an hour or less jobs that were available at these exported factories in Mexico.
We must know in the check out line that all the money we spend at the retail level quickly fans out to where the products are made and with free trade, this means outside of the USA.
The next best thing to shopping for products made in the USA is to buy products that are produced locally. At least more money stays in the community to recycle the economy.