rent a worker model (Score 1)

Hiring IT people on as 'contractors' is the equivilent to renting workers from manpower. It was recently disclosed that manpower temp agency is one of the largest (if not the largest) employer in America. This is just a way for jerk wad employers to circumvent America's labor laws and devalue people's work. How many people do you know that now make less for doing more?, even in a professional field like IT, just because they have to compete with 'scab' workers who have turned to these rip-off deals out of desperation. In the long run this hurts everyone of course, even the pigs in their lofty gated communities. I applaud the HP contractors and hope they are able to set a precidence. I believe that the IT community as a whole has gotten a raw deal. Any other skilled service industry is unionized. Not that unions are perfect but they at least provide a voice for skilled people handed unfair deals and a decision to either eat crap or starve to death.