10/09/06 Links of the Week… ish
1. The graceful response of the Amish to the school shooting– inviting the killer’s family members to grieve.
2. One Small Step for _A_ Man: Audio analysis solves the debate.
3. Employees at Religious Organizations Lack Basic Employment Rights. Apparently there can be such a thing as too much separation of church and state– at least when avoidance of getting involved in ‘religious’ disputes leads to dismissal of cases filed by:
…the press secretary at a Roman Catholic church, a writer for The Christian Science Monitor, administrators at religious colleges, the disgruntled beneficiaries of a Lutheran pension fund, the overseer of the kosher kitchen at a Jewish nursing home and a co-founder of Focus on the Family, run by the conservative religious leader James C. Dobson. Court files show that some of these people were surprised to learn that their work had been considered a “core expression of religious belief” by their employer.
4. Why Propaganda Doesn’t Work– among other things, it alienates parties who would otherwise be your natural allies.
5. Everyone’s a Supervisor: Taking Away Unionizing Rights of Nurses. Or as Stephen Colbert sees the implication of the legal trend: “No More Secretary’s Day”
ACS also sums up the current tally of the categories of workers without the right to unionize:
Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6 million
Agricultural Workers 3 million workers
Domestic Workers 1 million workers
Independent Contractors 7 million workers
Managers 10 million workers
Employees of religious institutions 500,000 workers
