Peter sez:I'm just posting this here so I can provide folks not on this site access to my work by a simple click. This saves me having to seek it out, copy and paste to such. I know it's 2-3 years out of date and therefore hope to update it. Hopefully it will be of interest to other UnionBookers.

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Bolivio : tumulto kaj alfrontiĝoj pri emeritaj pensioj

Tradukinto: neniammilto@free.fr

Fonto: http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20130517-tensions-affrontements-bolivie-la-paz

En Bolivio, tumulto pligraviĝas post dek unu tagoj de socia konflikto por…

(PLF) Demanded to Release the Salaries of the 300 Employees of the Evacuee Trust Property Board

Haji Muhammad Saeed Arian Founder/Secretary General Pakistan Labour Federation (PLF) condemned the (ETPB) authorities for issuing the ordered for the  withholding of  the salaries of  300 work-charged Employees. Those were appointed  during the  ban on recruitments by the Election Commission of Pakistan. Now It has  been observed that a number of…

http://lampudanmentol.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/wow-lebih-120-orang-hadir-ke-piket-daulat-lagi-di-jalan-sultan-idris-shah-ipoh/

They form a union because paid below minimum wage, contract employment (PKWT) has ended and no extension since 2009, the meal allowance will be cut 50%, overtime holiday (red date) is not paid, overtime workday simply calculated from basic salary excluding allowances fixed. The new age of the union about 2 months. Save…

Mr. Otto Perez Molina

President

Republic of Guatemala

Guatemala City

Guatemala

                    Justice for trade unionists murdered in…

 Nov-Kaledonio : defilado kaj ĝenerala striko kontraŭ multekosta vivo

Fonto: http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2013/05/15/nouvelle-caledonie-defile-et-greve-generale-contre-la-vie-chere_903001

Tradukinto: neneiammilito@free.fr

Pluraj miloj da personoj defiladis merkredon sur la stratoj de Numeo alvoke de plursindikata unuiĝo, kiu ankaŭ…

Nov-Kaledonio : defilado kaj ĝenerala striko kontraŭ multekosta vivo

Fonto: http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2013/05/15/nouvelle-caledonie-defile-et-greve-generale-contre-la-vie-chere_903001

Tradukinto: neniammilto@free.fr

Pluraj miloj da personoj defiladis merkredon sur la stratoj de Numeo…

Peter sez:

A good introductory piece but I wonder whether it does not lean in the direction of cyber-utopianism - i.e. the idea that the technology itself brings emancipation. There are numerous reflections on these phenomena - some coming out of the same protest wave the author refers to - which take a more critical view. Finally, Jorquera does not mention the abundant alternatives to TwitterWorld, based on free software, conscious of security and privacy…

Peter sez:

Although I don't usually post here non-labour or non-union items about the Israel/Palestine issue, I think this socialist one from Canada might give pro-Israeli leftists or unionists pause to reflect. Or, possibly, to respond.

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Report One Day National Seminar on the Rights of Children and

the Role of Trade Unions 0n 13th May,2013 at Hotel Ambassador Lahore





Pakistan Labour Federation (PLF) Organized  National Seminar on the

Children Basic Rights and the Role of Trade Unions at Lahore on 13th

May,2013 with the collaboration of World Asian Workers Organization

(WAWO) Trade Unions representatives from all over the Country…

Peter sez:

Yes, this was and is a very important strike, taking place as it did at the meeting point between a Neo-Liberal (or Palaeo-Liberal) Hongkong and a Neo-Communist (or State Capitalist) China. But when I check back on the AAWL site I find the following:

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'We can take actions against the main Hong Kong Port companies of…

Peter sez:

At a time in which Labour Zionism is on the back foot due to successes of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in West European, South African and even South American unions, it is well to recognise its historical roots and the way in which Labour Zionism has used the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to justify not simply the creation of a racist, militarist and expansionist state but one in which these tendencies are increasingly open.

Other…

Peter sez:

Check back on The Real News to get the 5-10 minute video.

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Peter sez:

It has all been said before but cannot be said too often: the AFL-CIO is funded by the US state and the one who pays the piper is calling the tune.

My only disagreement would be with the last two paragraphs, where the author talks of the soul of the AFL-CIO and of its necessary redemption.

Since this organisation is not a church and has no founding faith, nor any original solidarity doctine or ethic,…