Tag Archives: outsourcing

“The IT Outsourcing at WCC is a Scam. As a Taxpayer, You Should Fight It. Here’s Why and How.”

By Mark | June 20, 2019

Every once in a while, I’m reminded of the fact that we live in a pretty wonderful community. About a week or so ago, I heard about proposed layoffs at Washtenaw Community College, and I posted something here on the site about what was happening. As I said at the time, I don’t have a […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Angela Davis, Banner, Bill Milliken, Christina M. H. Fleming, Dave DeVarti, Diana McKnight-Morton, Ellucian, IT, lay-offs, Richard J. Landau, Rose Bellanca, Ruth A. Hatcher, Washtenaw Community College, WCC | 26 Comments

Washtenaw Community College’s plan to outsource IT services

By Mark | June 10, 2019

Over the past week or so, I’ve had several discussions with people at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) about declining enrollment and what it might mean for the future of the institution. As for why fewer people are enrolling, there are numerous contributing factors; the population of college-aged people is dropping, the cost of tuition has […]

Posted in Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged dismantling of public education, Eastern Michigan University, Ellucian, EMU, higher education, IT, mascots, millage, MLive, privatization, Rose Bellanca, the corporatization of higher education, Washtenaw Community College, WCC | 42 Comments

A now-profitable General Motors, having been bailed out by the people of Michigan, repays them with massive layoffs and the shuttering of facilities in Hamtramck and Warren

By Mark | November 26, 2018

Back in 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made the following promise to Michigan’s automotive workers. “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that,” he said. Well, General Motors announced today […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, automotive bailout, autonomous vehicles, bailout, Baltimore, beyond fossil fuel, cheap labor, Chevy Volt, China, Detroit, Donald Trump, electric vehicles, factories, General Motors, global climate change, GM, greed, Hamtramck, Lordstown, manufacturing, Mary Barra, Mexico, mobility, offshore manufacturing, Ohio, Sherrod Brown, SUVs, tax cuts, Terry Dittes, UAW, Warren | 27 Comments

Michael Moore on “the biggest ‘fuck you’ ever recorded in human history” and the righteous anger of the dispossessed American Trump supporter

By Mark | October 26, 2016

While I’m helping Arlo get his pterodactyl costume ready for tomorrow night’s YpsiGlow event, I wanted to share this video with you. It’s an excerpt from Micahel Moore’s new film Trumpland. As it’s been making it’s way around the internet for the past day or two, I suspect that most of you have probably already […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Predictions | Also tagged 2016, Arlo, Brexit, costumes, Detroit Economic Club, dispossessed, Donald Trump, Ford Motor Company, free trade, fuck you, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly Elegy, Mexico, Michael Moore, middle class, middle class anger, molotov, Obamacare, Percocet, Presidential politics, revenge, Trumpland, voting, YpsiGLOW | 240 Comments

Bernie Sanders came to Ann Arbor today to attach Trump, and rile up the kids for Clinton… and it was awesome

By Mark | October 6, 2016

Endearingly disheveled hero of the American left, Senator Bernie Sanders, made his way through Michigan today, pumping up crowds on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run up to next month’s presidential election. Our job, he told the crowd that gathered to hear him speak at the University of Michigan’s Museum […]