Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!wall From: wall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: new twist on computer "crime" and law Message-ID: <2241@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 04:50:37 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2241 Posted: Fri Sep 28 04:50:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 08:38:30 EDT References: <2199@ucbvax.ARPA> <244@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 25 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 ..!ucbvax!wall