Tag: labourstart
Line up a 1,000 trade union cannons
grayee Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 08:23:51 AM GMT 
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Excellent post by trade union blogger Johninnit from the TUC congress in Brighton. He makes four predictions about how unions (or at any rate unionists) will be using Web 2.0 by 2010. He addressed a fringe on this subject with Eric Lee who helps edit Labourstart. This post should also be interesting for the Labour Party and its activists.
1st - He believes that it will empower the grass roots and points to the 13,000 users of the successful TUC network unionreps.org.uk who share advice and resources. Globalisation could also encourage unions to form connections internationally. There is a General Motors Workers’ blog where GM car plants across the world connect with each other.
1st - He believes that it will empower the grass roots and points to the 13,000 users of the successful TUC network unionreps.org.uk who share advice and resources. Globalisation could also encourage unions to form connections internationally. There is a General Motors Workers’ blog where GM car plants across the world connect with each other.
Fremantle - The Third Sector Nightmare?
grayee Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 05:40:30 PM GMT
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They slash wages, provoke strikes, sack stewards, sue and try to close down Labourstart - Barnet UNISON in West London have been campaigning to stop vulnerable ex-local authority care workers, having their wages and working conditions slashed by this so called caring “not for profit” company, Fremantle. Not only are their basic wages being cut by about 30% but their sickness pay, holidays and overtime rates have been cut. See the UNISON web site.
