[lbo-talk] meanwhile, the US working class......

[alex lantsberg]

while true, one can't tell how she will manage this service or treat her 
employees.  the reason i bring this up is that here in SF one of the 
biggest boosters for living wage and a local minimum wage has in fact 
been a temp agency owner (he put up money for signature gathering and a 
UC berkeley report on the economics of an SF min wage).  now he's 
talking to CA labor about doing a statewide initiative if arnie vetoes 
legislation again this year.  this guy has run his own agency for years 
now and started it in response to getting ripped off on his labor when 
he was first starting out years ago.  now he provides his employees with 
a much higher share of the fee charged to his customers than the 
corporate outfits, pays a chunk of their health insurance premium, and 
offers paid vacations. 

this may be an extraordinary example, but it does exist.

alex


> John Thornton wrote:
>
>> In spite of all this Cobbs goal is own her own Temp Service so she 
>> can help hundreds of people have an even more marginal existence than 
>> hers while she profits from it? This is warped. She wants to make a 
>> $350 a month car payment and pay $400 for health-insurance and she 
>> aspires to pay someone maybe $800 to $1000 a month while hiring them 
>> out to a company for maybe one and a half times that and pocket the 
>> difference. Something is seriously wrong with this aspiration in my 
>> view. Am I being harsh on her? I don't think so. 
>