"Never a fee!": the miracle of the post-modern temporary help and staffing agency
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This article questions temporary employment agencies' claims that they do not charge fees to their employees by evaluating growing support among temporary workers for "right-to-know" disclosure of agency mark-ups. Temporary agencies are unregulated labor agents that remove between 30% to 50% of billing rates from the workers' wages; they also negatively effect labor relations between workers and their employers by removing the workers' rights to collective bargaining; wage gains have been effected by this practice as well, and these practices encourage the upward redistribution of wealth.
Publication Name: WorkingUSA
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 1089-7011
Year: 2000
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Commentary: We are all leaders
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The story of the International Workers of the World's (IWWs) who traveled to Everett, Washington on the barge Verona in 1916 to support a free-speech fight is published in the beginning of the book, The New Men of Power. Sheriff McRae questioned the workers asking them who was their leader and they replied 'We are all leaders'. The Sheriff then opened fire, killing five people.
Publication Name: WorkingUSA
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 1089-7011
Year: 2005
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