I am a university researcher, but I have been a lifelong employee in nonprofit organizations. I am joining UP because I have seen the tentacles of corporatization and managerial dominance creep into organizations that should be free of those things. There is no reason for universities and nonprofits to constantly restructure, give their workers nonsense psychological “tests,” hire layers of bureaucracy, and drive down wages while promoting a select few. If nonprofits and education can’t stem the tide, we are done for.

I am going from 25 plus years as a working entertainer, physical comic and clown to a video editor. I’m trying to find a white collar job with health care that will still allow me to be creative.

My husband had heart problems in the spring of 2007 so that made me re-evaluate my life. I decided to take time off from being a science teacher but that put an enormous financial strain on us since I am the main breadwinner and holder of our insurance.

I’m a 54 yr old divorced woman. For many years I worked as a BtoB marketing person for various companies. After a layoff in the early 90s, I went to law school full time. I love law, but couldn’t find a job with a law firm. My strength is research & writing and I finally [...]

Corporate America will prevail as long as we hard-working Americans remain apathetic about our ability to change the system. Long live the revolt of the proletariat!!

My story is one that I’m sure many American workers can relate to.  Although my story is that of frustration, fortunately it has required me to move forward with much perseverance.   
 I graduated high school in 1973, which was a year earlier than my scheduled 1974 graduation date.  At that time a student had the choice [...]

I left the finance industry nearly two years ago to buy a printer cartridge remanufacturing business. In the last 18 months, I have increased sales by 130% but am not satisfied with the work, so I’m in the process of selling the business and am interested in meeting other professionals and entrepreneurs.

I have been bullied out of three jobs because the companies I worked for wanted to reduce staff without paying severance packages or unemployment compensation. At EDS in particular, managers are rewarded with bonuses for driving innocent people away empty-handed.
Psychological violence is corporate America’s preferred method of staff reduction these days. I’m hoping that UP [...]

Hi, I have a checkered past in Sales. Initially I do very well in organizations but have come to realize – after being canned with younger employees in a newspaper sales position and then getting involved in discrepancies in my commission at an exhibit sales company — that the average sales executive is lucky if he [...]

I am a historian of 20th century American history. My mother was an activist in the teachers’ union in White Plains, NY. I think that professionals should organize just as much (if not more) than the traditional working class: maybe we need guilds instead of unions, but we need something.
In the humanities and academy, we [...]