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Peter waterman's Blog – June 2012 Archive (26)
Where Human Rights do not Include Labor Rights (the answer is in the spelling)!
Peter sez:
A crying scandal. But I don't think it necessarily applies to Amnesty International or other Non-US Human Rights bodies. I have a vague memory of AI publishing an expose on labour rights precisely in the USA. The other question is why this has to be raised 2012 by a journalist rather than the US unions over the last two-three decades.
Now read on...
As Labor…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 27, 2012 at 19:17 — 1 Comment
Workers of the World: New Online Labour Studies Journal
Workers of the World - International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflict is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the English language, for which manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese. Workers of the World publishes original articles, interviews and book reviews in the field of labour history and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non Eurocentric perspective.
It…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 26, 2012 at 15:15 — No Comments
Manitoba Federation of Labour v. Palestinians and Foreigners ('Dave', via Sid Shniad, Canada)
In the MFL Palestinians and foreigners are not people
I don't know sometimes why we bother. The Palestine resolution hit the floor with concurrence and BDS included. Only one person spoke against with the false premise that "Israel is the only middle eastern country with free trade unionism"...after a few interventions in support of the committee recommendation someone moved to refer back to committee because "this was controversial" and the "press will attack us".…
Added by peter waterman on June 25, 2012 at 17:59 — No Comments
Another Israel is Possible (The Real News,USA)
Peter sez:
On the one hand there is the image of a normal Israel, as a Middle Eastern version of a Liberal-Democratic state, on the other there is something being born, an Israel which is talks about the one-percent and the 99-percent.
Is this what Real Democracy is beginning to look like?
Now click on...…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 25, 2012 at 16:19 — No Comments
The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Centre in Latin America: Serving the US State that Funds it (via Kim Scipes, USA)
Added by peter waterman on June 25, 2012 at 15:16 — No Comments
Israeli Xenophobia and Africans - and Workers (Amandla!, South Africa)
Added by peter waterman on June 23, 2012 at 16:07 — No Comments
BDS Provokes Response from Trade Union Friends of Israel, UK.
Peter sez:
Eric Lee, creator of UnionBook, LabourStart and TULIP (Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine), just posted a link to this item from TULIP. I thought it should be given a little more prominence.
Although I am no specialist on the Zionist history of Histadrut, I am quite impressed by the manner in which this pamphlet 1) manages to mention 'BDS' but once and 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' not at all, and…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 23, 2012 at 14:00 — No Comments
Cosatu v. IMF, Continued... (Debate List, South Africa)
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Added by peter waterman on June 23, 2012 at 8:14 — No Comments
GLI Conference on International Union Movements: First Readings
Added by peter waterman on June 21, 2012 at 19:37 — No Comments
Manitoba, Canada, Labour Federation to Discuss BDS, Labour Solidarity With Palestine
Open forum on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions at the upcoming Manitoba Federation of Labour convention
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Added by peter waterman on June 21, 2012 at 16:30 — No Comments
An Ecosocialist Position on Rio+20: Trade Union Movement Please Follow?
The RIO+20 U.N. Conference:
An Ecosocialist Assessment
Representatives of governments from all the world will be present at the Rio+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, June 2012. What can we expect from this so-called “Earth Summit” from a social and ecological perspective? Nothing! Or, to be charitable, very little. This is not only due to the narrow-mindedness, greed, corruption, ignorance and selfishness of most of those…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 21, 2012 at 11:09 — No Comments
The Crisis of Unionism (and not only in North America)
Peter sez:
After a fast read: Sam Gindin seems to be almost reaching the point some of us reached 20 years ago with the dialogue around social movement unionism/the new social unionism. Pity he doesn't quite get there because he could certainly add to the exchange and maybe take it further than we did. Nor does he even seem to consider the changing nature of technology, products, production, work, culture and society being brought about by computeration/…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 19, 2012 at 7:32 — No Comments
International Alliance of Habitants Call for Rio +20
A paradigm shift for just, democratic and sustainable territories: Urban and the agrarian reform, now!
Added by peter waterman on June 18, 2012 at 14:51 — No Comments
Critical Note on Trade Union Declaration, Rio +20: What About the Arms Economy?
Peter sez:
Hopefully this is the beginning of a debate, discussion or dialogue, on what I recently thought was a radical step forward by the union internationals. Like the author of that piece, Mikael Book has been active for many years in the World Social Forum. I think he provides here one of many necessary extensions to that union document. Yesterday, by chance, I happened to see a union official from Rolls Royce in the UK welcoming the British…
Added by peter waterman on June 18, 2012 at 9:39 — No Comments
Important New International TU Assembly Statement from RIO (Asbjorn Wahl, via LabourAndGlobalisation)
Added by peter waterman on June 17, 2012 at 15:47 — No Comments
How the Left Really Lost (only?) in Wisconsin
Added by peter waterman on June 17, 2012 at 10:57 — No Comments
Is the New Global IndustriALL union Amazing?
Peter sez:
I am not sure what is 'amazing' about this new merger, sent out by Eric Lee, creator of both UBook and LabourStart.
It follows the merger of the ITUC and WCL into the ITUC, 2006, as well as various other national and international mergers over the last decade or more. It may be a welcome adjustment to the reality of de-industrialisation and falling union numbers in the Northern homeland. But, surely, the problem with the ITUC, Global Unions and their…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 16, 2012 at 18:59 — No Comments
ITUC's First Global Opinion Poll: Welcome Signs of Massive Popular Discontent?
Peter sez:
Thanks, Andy, for pointing us toward this item, if in French. A limited but nonetheless absolutely fascinating exercise, leading to the question of whether Another ITUC Survey is Necessary (Yes!) and if so Possible (Hmm!)
I would appreciate an opinion on it by some critically-minded political-economist or statistician. My probably…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 12, 2012 at 13:54 — No Comments
The Indignados-Union Relationship in the Spanish Protests
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Global Education Strike: Labour Movement Please Follow?
Peter sez:
Is this the very model of a 21st century internationalism? I am impressed by the extent to which it fits with the kind of ideas some of us have been promoting for a new kind of labour internationalism, surpassing that entrapped within the logics of capital, state, political parties or traditional union institutions. I will be watching this process. So should all of us concerned with what the labour movement generally can learn from the students and…
ContinueAdded by peter waterman on June 10, 2012 at 9:14 — No Comments
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