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Forum for combating negative portrayals of labour activism in media.

Have a bone to pick? This is the forum for Unionbook to collectively REACT

(if Concerned Mothers for America can do it, so can we.)

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Latest Activity: Feb 16

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REACT: Write Back, Fight Back

Recent coverage of public sector unions in The Economist provoked me to start up a new group, REACT. I figured that it is time for us to participate in media, defend our position and write back, collectively.

This is the forum where you can share your frustrations with media depictions of collective bargaining, trade unionism or labour activism and call on all for assistance.

As a broadcaster, media analyst, public relations and communications worker, I say it is time for us to rehabilitate the public image of labour, and it has to start now.

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LabourStart Correspondants. If you don't understand what you're reading, don't post it !

I've been looking after the French pages of LabourStart for some years now and it's always annoying to find a news headline posted in French by a correspondant who obviously doesn't understand the…Continue

Started by Andy Funnell Nov 3, 2011.

Wisconsin Battleground: Milwaukee Teachers accused of receiving over $100,000 of salary and benefits

Attack on Milwaukee Teachers and their salary & benefits packages is clearly indicated here: …Continue

Tags: Milwaukee, teachers, benefits, Wisconsin, bargaining

Started by lana fargis Feb 25, 2011.

REACT to The Economist: Public-sector unions have had a good few decades. Has their luck run out?

REACT to this article: http://www.economist.com/node/17849199 Summary: Unionized public service workers are blamed for failing state and municipal…Continue

Tags: media, REACT, comments, pensions, Economist

Started by lana fargis Jan 14, 2011.

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Comment by Herbert Pimlott on January 4, 2013 at 3:16: It might be a small consolation, but the fact that the labour movement gets such negative coverage from corporate media is simply because it represents a threat, however minimal it is at present, to their expropriation of the wealth created by our labour.

Nonetheless, we should try by all means that we have to challenge their misrepresentation of us while at the same time reminding everyone we know that for-profit corporate media is going to represent issues that they have a stake in in a way that helps their bottom line. Everyone will -- or should -- understand that logic.

Comment by Hamad Maqsood Gill on January 2, 2013 at 22:32: LabourStart Correspondants.All my Union Members nd MY UnionBook Members and friends:LabourStart Correspondants. If you don't understand what is the Vice of Workers Labour and trade unionists.What are you writing about Unions.what you are going to do what is our Rights and what is our goals in life.Then “It is not goodness to be better than the worst".If we could, I might, but sorry to say we have no right to say about Labour unions. Today Labour is not a commodity. But now this is a Real Power of the world.To Show your Unity and Power Workers all over the world stand up for their Rights and call for justice.