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April 2011 Blog Posts (47)
Elements of a theory of ‘organized networks’ by Geert Lovink
Added by Orsan Senalp on April 30, 2011 at 23:29 — No Comments
A program for real change presented for discussion on May Day...
A program for real change presented for discussion on May Day...
* Peace--- end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and shutdown the 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil.
* A National Public Health Care System - ten million new jobs.
* A National Public Child Care System - three to five million new jobs.
* WPA - three million new jobs.
* CCC - two million new jobs.
* Tax the hell out of the rich and cut the military budget by ending… Continue
* Peace--- end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and shutdown the 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil.
* A National Public Health Care System - ten million new jobs.
* A National Public Child Care System - three to five million new jobs.
* WPA - three million new jobs.
* CCC - two million new jobs.
* Tax the hell out of the rich and cut the military budget by ending… Continue
Added by Alan L. Maki on April 29, 2011 at 15:22 — No Comments
doemstic workers
Welcome the step has taken by Delhi government regarding registration of agencies providing domestic helps to be made mandatory, But verification of domestic worker process, one has to undergo police verification based on residential l association’ proposal is anti labour or anti worker attitude .It would lead to all kind of exploitation from the part of Police and association office bearers to female worker. Question are these, are all domestic worker criminals? It is also not practical.…
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Rocky Road Ahead for Part-Time Professors at the University of Ottawa
The Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa (APTPUO) is concerned about the way that the University of Ottawa's Bargaining Team has been conducting negotiations; it appears to be nothing short of bullying, threats of union busting and bad faith!
On April 11th 2011, the University of Ottawa Bargaining Team walked away from the government-led conciliation process and instructed the Ontario Ministry of Labour to issue a “No Board” report – which…
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A Global Labour Charter Movement (Peter Waterman, The Hague)
Peter Sez:
This seems to be the season - or maybe the year - of national or global labour charter projects. I have noted on UBook those from Australia-Asia, from Turkey/Netherlands, and thought I should re-post my own (UK-Netherlands?) so it is easy to find.…
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Networked Politics – Barcelona Reader | Transnational Institute
Added by Orsan Senalp on April 27, 2011 at 9:13 — No Comments
Heckler 2: combined university unions magazine from Portsmouth, UK
Based at the University of Portsmouth, UK, The Heckler magazine is a combined initiative of the UCU (academics), UNISON (staff) and UPSU (students). Its aim is to reach beyond local workplace issues, with commentary, advice and artworks of general interest and urgency, and it has already grown into other colleges and universities and public-sector organizations in the region.…
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Added by Marius Kwint on April 26, 2011 at 16:42 — No Comments
The International Worker Photography Movement (1926-39)
A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939
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Added by peter waterman on April 26, 2011 at 13:16 — No Comments
Public corporation use thugs to attack on workers
Last thursday, April 21th, public corporation KSPO ordered to thug to attack on workers picketing in front of building of KSPO. Therefore one of workers went to hospital. The worker in hospital got hurt seriously on backbone. The hospital doctor said that it's serious and will need surgery.
KSPO was established in 1988 as memorial…
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Scottish TUC Condemns Israeli Histadrut in Strongest Terms Yet
The Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) condemns the Histadrut and declares its continuedcommitment to the campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the state of IsraelAyr (Scotland), 20 April 2011Scottish Palestine Solidarity CampaignThere were blistering attacks on the Israeli Histadrut from the floor of the STUC annual conference. TheFBU Scotland has been a consistent supporter of Palestinian calls for boycott. FBU Scotland Organiser,Jim…
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Review of Scipes' book on the AFL-CIO foreign policy program
Folks--
Paul Street has just published a review of my recent book, AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010). His review is titled "A Betrayal of the Highest Order: Reflections on Kim Scipes' Important New Book on US Labor Imperialism," and I thought it might be of interest to people on this list. It is at …
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Added by Kim Scipes on April 24, 2011 at 0:50 — No Comments
May Day – the Real Labor Day | l.gaylord@m.cc.utah.edu
May Day – the Real Labor Day | l.gaylord@m.cc.utah.edu
Posted on April 22, 2011 by OrsanSenalp
May 1st, International Workers’ Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day.
In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor… Continue
Posted on April 22, 2011 by OrsanSenalp
May 1st, International Workers’ Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day.
In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor… Continue
Added by Orsan Senalp on April 22, 2011 at 15:13 — No Comments
What happens after the rally? Four ideas for strengthening the campaign against the cuts | Power In Coalition
Posted on April 22, 2011 by OrsanSenalp
http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/what-happens-after-the-rally-four-ideas-for-strengthening-the-campaign-against-the-cuts/
An article from Australian community organiser and the author of “Power In Coalition” Amanda Tattersall. Her ideas are also applicable for union-commuity… Continue
http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/what-happens-after-the-rally-four-ideas-for-strengthening-the-campaign-against-the-cuts/
An article from Australian community organiser and the author of “Power In Coalition” Amanda Tattersall. Her ideas are also applicable for union-commuity… Continue
Added by Orsan Senalp on April 22, 2011 at 8:50 — No Comments
An appeal to express solidarity with the Workers' Charter Movement -2011
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Being a freelance journalist and social activist I feel that I should support the legal demands of Indian working class. So, I support the ongoing movement of working class in India - Workers' Charter Movement-2011 ; and below Is the appeal to all justice loving people:
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Dear Friend,
India…
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Added by Sandeep on April 21, 2011 at 18:19 — 4 Comments
Central New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO Mission Statement
Mission Statement
The Central New York Area Labor Federation is the area federation representing over 100,000 members of 200 local unions in eleven central New York counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego,Tioga, and Tompkins.
The mission of the Central New York Area Labor Federation is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the…
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Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies — A Credo by Kevin Carson | C4SS (via P2P Foundation)
Posted on April 19, 2011 by OrsanSenalp
Hierarchies are systematically stupid and inefficient, for the following reasons.
1. Hayekian information problems: The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the situation. The people who make the rules know nothing about the work they’re interfering with. The people who make the rules are unaccountable to the people who do know how to do the work.… Continue
Hierarchies are systematically stupid and inefficient, for the following reasons.
1. Hayekian information problems: The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the situation. The people who make the rules know nothing about the work they’re interfering with. The people who make the rules are unaccountable to the people who do know how to do the work.… Continue
Added by Orsan Senalp on April 19, 2011 at 12:55 — No Comments
Wisconsin: Limits and Possibilities of a Labour-Student Insurrection (Franco Barchiesi, Edu-factory)
Notes on the Wisconsin Insurrection
by Franco Barchiesi
(Dept. of African-American and African Studies, Ohio State University)
“If you screw us, we multiply”, read one of the signs held by the hundreds of demonstrators who staged, throughout the second half of February, a virtually uninterrupted occupation of the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. It was a rather…
Added by peter waterman on April 15, 2011 at 5:54 — No Comments
Reinventing the Left - From Sectoral to Class Unions (Leon Panitch, Socialist Project, Canada)
Added by peter waterman on April 14, 2011 at 14:57 — No Comments
Labor party calls for labor enforcement reforms as another worker dies in Hanjin shipyard
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8778465-labor-party-calls-for-labor-enforcement-reforms-as-another-worker-dies-in-hanjin-shipyard
Press…
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