Anti-Job, Pro-Freedom Quotes Of The Week 58, 59, 60

DETROIT, March 31 — Delphi, the nation's biggest auto parts maker, on Friday asked a federal judge for permission to throw out some of its labor agreements, a move that could cost 20,000 union workers their jobs and leave thousands of others with less than half their current wages.
Delphi said it would close or sell all but 8 of its 29 plants in the United States and cut 28,500 positions around the world. Beyond the 20,000 of its 33,100 hourly jobs in the United States that Delphi plans to cut, another 8,500 salaried jobs worldwide are to be eliminated.
"I took this job thinking this was my future," said Tracey Huffman, 37…
from
Car Parts Maker Moves to Break Its Union Deals
By Micheline Maynard,
NYT
Published: April 1, 2006




Youth unemployment has been one of France's biggest problems for 30 years. A quarter of those under 25 are jobless; that figure surpasses 40 percent in the troubled suburbs.
from
French Twist
By Corinne Maier
NYT
Friday, March 31, 2006



The importance to each individual of access to the means of labor will clearly diminish if and insofar as the amount of current human labor required to produce an acceptable flow of the means of life for all diminishes. For as less labor is needed, the requirement to work is less needed. The right to earn an income becomes less a prerequisite, or co-requisite of the right to an income.
C.B. Macpherson,
Democratic Theory, Essays In Retrieval