Louis Kimmel director of New Labor, a New Brunswick-based organization that assists low-income workers, offers an explanation of the relationships among major corporations, distribution firms and temp agencies and where responsibilities for the temp economy lie.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Hank Kalet 
This is why we need unions. Turning workers into permanent temps or independent contractors is a way to shaft working people and turn them into indentured servants with low wages and no benefits or pensions. The libertarian robots aid and abet the corporate predators.