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August 2010 Blog Posts (80)
STUFF AND NONSENSE
The Biggest thing here is the cricket scandal enveloping the most noble of sports. They used to play it for honour once in the days of our Imperial British masters and good it was too!
But back to Politics.… Continue
Added by Rod Parham on August 31, 2010 at 23:10 — No Comments
Turkish UPS workers need short messages of solidarity tomorrow
Dear friends,
During the Action Day tomorrow, on 1 September, TUMTIS will be holding a mass rally in Istanbul.
If you can send a short message, the union can read them out during the manifestation. I am sure that it will encourage the participants and especially those who have been unfairly dismissed over these months.
Make sure you mention your name, name of… Continue
Democratize stem cells! Democratize the bomb
There's too much information about stem cells. There is so much information that it's like having no information at all. Then throw in Google ads that let companies sell stem cell therapies, that scientists scream are fake, to us and what you have is utter confusion.
Things are so confusing that the International Society for Stem Cell… Continue
Added by Dennis Tesolat on August 31, 2010 at 15:41 — No Comments
Labour's Lost Love and The Poverty Trap
Added by Larry Hubich on August 31, 2010 at 6:30 — 2 Comments
How to get rid of democracy ( and the labour laws that go with democracy) : " build a super organization" that forces your country to not take the people's vote into consideration
How to get rid of democracy ( and the labour laws that go with democracy) : " build a super organization" that forces your country to not take the people's vote into consideration ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_referendum,_2005, where french voters go against EU constitution and their majority opinion is rejected
Added by John KINGSTON on August 30, 2010 at 19:00 — 2 Comments
chiled labour in the silck indestry in uzbekistan
mainly about the "ifgi" company (i hope it's writhen like that - my source is in hebrew)
does anyone know's that company? knows who buy's from them?
maybe we can put presher on them like the "lipton" case...
Added by jacob avid on August 30, 2010 at 17:52 — No Comments
"OUT" of the closet,works better ! The first LGBT group on UnionBook
Make LGBT are fully visible, accepted and valued in the workplace and in society.
With this statement in mind I opened a new UnionBook group: UnionBook LGBT…
ContinueAdded by Nico Meijer on August 30, 2010 at 16:00 — No Comments
UN’s International Labour Organization condemns Saskatchewan (Canada) government
Added by Larry Hubich on August 30, 2010 at 15:56 — No Comments
Honduras: Something’s Not Right
The general strike is basically a weapon of last resort of the people in order to have their demands be heard. But even being a very broad movement is not enough to ensure its success, if it fails to impact the interests of the dominant class, especially in a country like Honduras, where the elites exercise absolute control over the state. Although a general strike requires a massive effort in terms of organization and training, the most fundamental aspect lies in the will to carry…
ContinueAdded by Ellen Verryt on August 30, 2010 at 15:43 — No Comments
Honeywell Locks Out USW Local Over Health Care.
Added by Lew Friedman on August 30, 2010 at 14:32 — No Comments
Job security and 'skills formation' in crisis and recovery - can bosses be trusted to make logical decisions?
Added by Don Sutherland on August 30, 2010 at 10:35 — No Comments
Call to organizations of the popular movement and all the people to join the “big general strike” in Honduras .
It was announced that the strike is in the preparatory stage, and already the Central Strike Committee has been organized, in addition to the strike committees for the North, Central, South zones and the committees of the base… Continue
Added by Ellen Verryt on August 30, 2010 at 10:16 — No Comments
A Community Union
Altering the sense of what a traditional labor union does into a new definition of something we call a Community Union, the TCWC envisions the entire community, countywide, as being
the proverbial ‘bargaining unit’. We are both upholding the ‘social contract’
as it presently exists with regards to worker/labor rights as well as…
Added by Tompkins County Workers' Center on August 30, 2010 at 0:23 — 1 Comment
WATCHING THE PAINT DRY!
But he doesn't want to show me which upsets me a great deal. After all, I'm a subject of the Queen of Australia too! No it's not Kyle Minogue but Lizzy II, and that's another thing the latest polls… Continue
Added by Rod Parham on August 29, 2010 at 5:13 — 2 Comments
Ain't it the truth...
authority may surrender to murder,
chaos, or fascism.
...Lest we forget.…
Continue
Added by Tim Flanagan on August 29, 2010 at 1:18 — No Comments
Truth Part One...
Added by Tim Flanagan on August 29, 2010 at 1:00 — No Comments
Join the Defense!
Join the General Defense Committee! Contact gdc6@ottawaiww.org for an application form and more information. Dues are $20 with a one-time $5 initiation fee for new members. Members must agree with the Preamble of the IWW’s Constitution.
Membership in the IWW is not required.
Added by General Defense Committee Local6 on August 28, 2010 at 17:16 — No Comments
What is the General Defense Committee?
of the IWW Ottawa-Outaouais branch. Its members are now from across Canada and membership is open to the public and to all IWW members.
GDC Local 6’s first campaign was to raise funds to support the legal defense of the Seven Year Squatters who were arrested during a police raid on a house squatted on 243 Gilmour Street in Ottawa during the counter-G8 Take the…
ContinueAdded by General Defense Committee Local6 on August 28, 2010 at 17:00 — No Comments
Let's Hear it (also) for the Rootless Cosmopolitans!
Added by peter waterman on August 28, 2010 at 16:42 — No Comments
People Can Achieve the Change they Want, A Labour Day Message
People Can Achieve the Change they Want, A Labour Day Message
Added by Dave Trumble on August 28, 2010 at 2:47 — 1 Comment
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