Derek Blackadder

Brief description: See my blog at http://blackadderonline.blogspot.com/

Location: Ontario, Canada, cobourg

Interests: e-campaigning, unions online, union lapel pins, film, model airplanes, international solidarity, unions and the internet

Skills: fastest two-fingered typist there is.

Union: Canadian Staff Union, csu, Canadian Union of Public Employees, CUPE

Website: http://www.labourstart.org

National Representative with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Peterborough, Ontario. LabourStarter. Builder of large-ish balsa wood models of bushplanes.  Collector of union lapel pins.  Geekly dilettante. 

I also write the odd (very) feature for Our Times, Canada's indie labour magazine, and a regular column on things netish for trade unionists.  Check some of them out HERE.