The continuing theme in articles referencing this survey is that due to a rise in the hiring of temporary workers in certain districts (Richmond, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Dallas), there is going to be a boost in the economy and a rehiring of previously laid-off and new employees. The reporters claim that these temporary workers are going to be the bridge between the failing economy of the past three years and the booming economy of the future. Temporary employees are an indication that organizations are using their intuition to predict the future of the most volatile economy of the past 50 years.

Temporary workers are more like pawns than employees. They can simply be passed from one job to the next and terminated for any number of reasons providing society with a question that needs to be answered: How are workers and organizations benefiting from the use of temporary employees in long-term positions?

Scott Holliday Wilson
Washington, D.C.
 
 
‘No S. Korean troops to Iraq’
Around 25 protesters, mostly Koreans, demonstrated outside the office of the Korean Consulate General in New York at noon on November 13 to demand “Stop Sending South Korean Combat Troops to Iraq!” Yong Un Yuk, a spokesperson for the ad hoc coalition that sponsored the rally, told the crowd, “We Koreans in America do not support the decision of the South Korean government to dispatch additional troops to Iraq. We desire peace and we respect the sovereignty of Iraq.”

Dan Fein
New York, New York
 
 
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