Re: Re: services

At 03:32 PM 7/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>nmb-Inn regard to jobs with justice, and sweatshops
>it may be important to remeber that, the largest
>employer in the usa, famous for cushy jobs with a
>considerable benefits also maintains a labor pool of
>workers with virtually no meaningfull worker
>protection...these workers are exempt from even the
>most  meager state standards are kept in a condition
>of insecurity about future employment, underpaid for
>their work and are frequently held hostage to
>"company"
>fads and fashions...and unlike their supervisors
>who have it are effectively denied union protection--
>the "company" is of course the us government itself
>and the workers the horde of temporary & seasonal
>folks who fight our wildland fires at risk to their
>lives and do most of the on the ground work to protect
>our national resources.
>                            thanks, and all power to
>the
>                             people!
>                              Darrel Armstrong
>                                Modoc National Forest

Absolutely!  My father-in-law spent a career with the Forest Service, and I 
was privileged to make the acquaintance of some smoke jumpers in a trip to 
Washington DC last year.  These are people who all too often put their 
lives on the line, and, perversely, are exempt from standards that the 
government (rightly) imposes on private business.

Niel