We are witnessing dramatic changes in the work environment for high-tech workers. Nowadays, we are more likely to be hired as "temps," better known as "flex-terms" at LLNL. As companies reorganize more frequently, and as projects like AVLIS come and go, we could end up hopping from job to job. Given these dynamics, all of us need to be concerned about rebuilding careers, portable benefits, and re-education.

The Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers (SPSE) invites all employees to a talk on these issues by a nationally known expert from the Silicon Valley.

The New York Times says about Ms. Dean,

• "(She's) the most innovative figure in Silicon Valley, the labor movement's chief navigator, its Christopher Columbus, in the rolling and uncharted seas of the new economy."
• "Ms. Dean's goal is nothing short of turning the AFL-CIO's Silicon Valley operation into a model for the rebirth of the labor movement, just as the valley's entrepreneurs have brought about a rebirth of American industry."
• "Labor leaders nationwide are tripping over themselves to copy her ideas."

Please post until 3/2/00

For More Information about Amy Dean:

Amy Dean's Biography

See the entire New York Times  article quoted above.

http://www.atwork.org/wp/news.html

http://www.disgruntled.com/amydean.html

http://www.atwork.org/clc/

http://www.atwork.org/temp/safe96exe.html

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/april14/shapingsilicon-414.html

http://www.igc.apc.org/dbacon/Unions/04hitec0.htm#top

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.15.98/cover/sobaylabor1-9841.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/07/13/SC24580.DTL

http://www.atwork.org/wp/news.html

http://www.disgruntled.com/amydean.html

http://www.atwork.org/clc/add.html

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