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From: wall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall)
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Subject: Re: new twist on computer "crime" and law
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Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 04:50:37 EDT
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I'm sorry if the article I submitted was vague, but I was just passing
along what the home workers on 60 Minutes mentioned last Sunday (i.e. that
the unions will try to fight against home computer work).

After thinking this over, it really doesn't make sense that the unions
would be after programmers, since programmers are (for the most part) 
well paid and work under good conditions. I think that the union might
be against the more "data entry" oriented types of jobs that tend to
be lower paying and more open to unionization. For instance, say Company
A pays Person B $5.00/hr to enter data from home, whereas a person working
at the office would be paid $7.00/hr. Clearly, Company A would be in-
terested in cutting costs by hiring the person at home. I think that the
unions are concerned because the people who work at home will be harder
to organize than the people who work at the office (since workers at
the office are grouped together on a daily basis, there would be a better
chance of unionization, whereas the people at home are scattered throughout
an area and are harder to organize).

My impression is that there is not a lot of this type of "home" working
going on at this time, but it could become more common in the future.

Does this seem to make sense, or am I completely off base? Comments?

Steve Wall
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