Bernadette Hyland interviews 2 young trade unionists in Manchester. UK

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I'm outraged about the latest right-wing scam! Indiana just became the 23rd state to adopt a  "right-to-work" law. Now extremist politicians are pushing right to work wherever they can --  Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and states around the country.

But right to work isn't about rights or work. In fact, right-to-work laws drive down job standards  for all of us.

Will you join me in fighting back against this deceptive policy? We need to take a stand to…

On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Greek police arrested Nikos Photopoulos, President of the power workers' union GENOP/DEI, along with more than a dozen of his fellow trade unionists. They will appear in court on Tuesday 10 January 2012 to face charges that could see them jailed for up to five years. They were protesting against part of the Greek austerity measures - the cutting off of power to people unable or unwilling to pay a new, swingeing property tax, levied regardless of income or…

“No poor man ever gave me a job.” How many times have you heard that one?  Sadly, these words are often spoken by a working class person who should know better. It’s always said with a self-satisfied sneer, sometimes accompanied by some racial or gender slurs.  Maybe you’ve heard people repeating the cruel sound bites from TV about how lazy and irresponsible poor people supposedly are.

I’m not much good at snappy comebacks, so here is what I would like to say in response…

In the context of the current financial and economic crisis, education unions have been asked to accept severe cutbacks and austerity measures on the basis that there is no more money available for public services. In the United Kingdom (UK), technical changes in pension plan…

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(17 November 2011) The weekend of October 28th to 30th a group of more than twenty young trade unions´ members from the Czech and Slovak Republic attended a 3 day seminar in the middle of the south Moravian countryside, the so called Cow Mountain, Bořetice, to discuss the possibilities and different approaches in recruiting and organising, ie, how to attract young workers and how to improve their skills and abilities to obtain the desired goal in their trade union work.…

The government will no longer deduct union dues for civil servants.

With amendments to the Public Service Act, Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed- Khaiyum says the rights of workers have now been enshrined in law and are therefore safe-guarded.

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In 1972, Chinese Communist leader, Zhou En-lai, was reported to have answered US President Richard M. Nixon's question on the impact of the French revolution on western civilization, with the line that 'it is still too early to tell'. 

While it may still be too early to tell, one thing the French revolution did give us was the trio of ideals of 'equality, solidarity and liberty', and of course out of those we got liberalism and socialism and, in reaction against the…

Hello my brothers and sisters,

First, let me announce, here on UnionBook that Alliance@IBM CWA will be sending a representative to Switzerland for a meeting of Union representatives of IBM workers, worldwide. This meeting will be in May 2011, and the agenda is rather basic. IBM workers are international or 'global'; as is the company for whom they work. There are countries in Europe, with IBM locations, that are comprised of unions and 'works councils'. Japan, Argentina, Chile,…

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"Along with the rule of law and private property rights, the sanctity of contracts is considered fundamental to 'economic freedom.'  Yet certain kinds of contracts, namely the collective bargaining agreements of U.S. public sector workers, are now starting to be regarded as dispensable...

"These assaults on the contract rights of public workers are said to be…

Mubarak toppled! `We will ... celebrate, then start building our new Egypt!'

Tahrir Square. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy.

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Peter sez:

Still going strong, a decade or two later, this argument and its author continue to challenge a labour movement that - Right, Centre and Left - is still overwhelmingly trapped within a capitalist notion of work.

The item was originally published in 'Processed World', a little magazine that was aware of the 'information…