Tram Town
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
| Category: Academia It strikes me that just about anyone who is asked if they would like some changes to their work conditions would say yes. According to this article this applies for casual workers just as much as it would to anyone else. Barbara Pocock from the school of Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide has rallied a couple of her academic buddies around and, with a little bit of $help from the ACTU and others (ACTU provided $4500, around 17% of explicit funding), they have interviewed 55 people for what Barbara describes as a qualitative study. I have read the report summary and parts of the full report and, near as I can tell, they discovered that casual employees would like more security, better pay, more training, better treatment by the boss, better treatment by the bank, etc. etc. Hey Barbara! Guess what? So would I and so would just about any worker. What about you Barbara? Yesterday, they wasted god knows how much money having a conference, Work Interrupted, about this "issue". I bet I can guess how that went! By the way, can anybody explain the significance of the silver balls on the conference pamphlet? |
