(On cloning: "No free labor source is worth all of this trouble").
Via Ben Smith of the Politico: Two labor sources tell Politico that the giant Service Employees International Union, which has been neutral through the primary, is on the verge of throwing its support to Sen. Barack Obama.
Through the years, the poor have received assistance from innumerable government agencies and nonprofit organizations, and they've been an exploitable labor source, but they have almost never been treated simply as customers.
The current system has many benefits: poor nations receive remittances from family members working abroad, while rich nations are provided with a labor source for low-status work and with a market for goods used primarily by low-wage migrants.
But the report also concludes that a long transition period could mitigate the impact of a huge wave of migration, that Turkey's young population could provide an important new labor source and that the negotiating process itself would spur Turkey to even more democratic reform.
Co-founded by the former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton and with seed money from the Service Employees International Union and the film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, the group's entrée into the early 2012 contest all but ensures that the presidential race will be awash in cash from undisclosed corporate and labor sources with huge stakes in Washington policy making.
Meanwhile, the research has found that immigrants – including the poor, uneducated ones coming from south of the border — have a big positive impact on the economy over the long run, bolstering the profitability of American firms, reducing the prices of some products and services by providing employers with a new labor source and creating more opportunities for investment and jobs.
To remain competitive, companies seek cost-effective labor sources, which takes them to China, Southeast Asia, India, and Mexico, to name a few.
Volunteers are a major labor source in sports; however, the impact of volunteers on organizational image or on customers' repatronage intentions has not been studied.
Labor sources are currency at that point, and the ingrained human assumption, "objects must have owners," gives rise to the idea that autonomous labor sources will inevitably become patented and centralized.
