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Peter waterman's Blog – September 2011 Archive (22)
Wow?! Foreign, Student, Precarious Workers Strike Hershey's, USA (International Union of Foodworkers)
Published on IUF UITA IUL (http://cms.iuf.org)
Strike by student exchange workers at US chocolate maker Hershey exposes sordid trail of outsourcing and…
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Troubling Trends 4 US Workers (Hart-Landsberg, Links, Australia, via DebateList, South Africa)
Martin Hart-Landsberg: Troubling economic trends for US workers
Added by peter waterman on September 22, 2011 at 10:57 — No Comments
Union Book Lives! But What is Now to be Done?
Very good news that there was such an extensive response to Eric's survey of participant attitudes toward UB. And that it was overwhelmingly positive.
To me the next survey needs, if possible, to be of the 100s of labour movement folk quite hyper-active on the web but who are inactive on UB! They may be affiliated but passive but they are mostly giving UB a low priority. So the question to these would need to be something like: What would lead you to give UB a high(er)…
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From Old to New Unions in Egypt (Ahram Online, via Viola Wilkins, UB)
The road to trade union independence:
Upcoming trade union elections are as important as parliamentary elections, with the left facing strong competition from the Muslim…
Added by peter waterman on September 22, 2011 at 7:01 — No Comments
Israeli Report on TUC Histadrut vote, etc (Jerusalem Post, Israel)
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=238665
Jerusalem Post September 20, 2011
UK labor federation reaffirms anti-Israel boycott support
By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST…
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Jerusalem Post September 20, 2011
UK labor federation reaffirms anti-Israel boycott support
By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST…
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Egypt: Worker (and Peasant) Protest Continues (Anne Alexander, Socialist Worker, UK)
Issue: 2269 dated: 17 September 2011 International
posted: 6.23pm Tue 13 Sep 2011
Egypt: enough empty promises
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Egypt: Worker Gains? (Joel Beinin, http://she2i2.blogspot.com/)
Peter sez:
Possibly outdated but nonetheless informative, coming from the leading English-language specialist on Egyptian labour. Perhaps - given his collaboration with it - he should now be asked about the role of the AFL-CIO's US-state-funded Solidarity Centre in labour protest before the fall of Mubarak, and its role in relationship to the new trade unions developing in Egypt. This in the light of the Solidarity…
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Egypt: Worker Gains? (Joel Beinin, http://she2i2.blogspot.com/)
Peter sez:
Possibly outdated but nonetheless informative, coming from the leading English-language specialist on Egyptian labour. Perhaps - given his collaboration with it - he should now be asked about the role of the AFL-CIO's US-state-funded Solidarity Centre in labour protest before the fall of Mubarak, and its role in relationship to the new trade unions developing in Egypt. This in the light of the Solidarity…
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Egypt: Up for Grabs (Raul Bassi, Links, Australia)
Dateline Egypt: Everything up for grabs in ongoing revolt
On September 9, a huge protest took place outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo. The protest was driven by anger at Israel's killing of Egyptian police in August, the deep solidarity the Egyptian…
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Class/Ethnic Analysis of the Israeli Protests. Max Ajl (via Ran Greenstein, Debate List, South Africa)
Ran Greenstein sez:
Good overall, though marred a bit by dubious psychologizing of 'Arab
Jews' (a dubious term in itself).Continue
Peter sez:
Check out what Max Ajl says about Ofer Eini, leader of the Histadrut, At the recent ITUC Congress,
as the Histadrut website, proudly claims, 'Eini was also re-elected vice-president
of the Confederation and to the Steering and Executive Committees'.
Now Read On...…
Added by peter waterman on September 18, 2011 at 11:25 — 6 Comments
The Social-Democratic Illusion (Immanuel Wallerstein, USA)
Commentary No. 313, September 15, 2011
"The Social-Democratic Illusion"
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Britain's Trade Unions Today (Martin Smith, International Socialism, UK).
Peter sez:
I find this detailed article one that is extremely useful but far from sufficient. Martin Smith does not confront several factors fundamentally affecting unions not only in the UK but worldwide. One is the profound de- or re-structuring of labour, with the relative decline in more or less permanent, family-waged, male, large-scale industrial (including railways, docks, agricultural)…
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British TUC to Review Links with Israeli Histadrut etc (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=25&Content_ID=2143
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TUC votes to support Palestine and review links with organisations complicit with Israel's occupation
The Trades Union Congress, representing 6.5 million workers in…
Added by peter waterman on September 15, 2011 at 6:40 — No Comments
15 October International Day of Action Against Banks, Cuts, Wars, Racism (Labour and Globalisation, WSF)
Added by peter waterman on September 14, 2011 at 14:42 — No Comments
Theses on the Crisis (Wildcat, Germany)
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After Capitalism: 4 Recent Thinkers (Peter Hall-Jones, NewUnionism)
Peter sez:
Peter Hall-Jones is one of the few people with an international trade union background who thinks - despite his qualifications below - that ideas are important in the revival of the movement. His four thinkers, and his identification of these, require a close reading and critique which I do not here pretend to make. If, however, he wants other names, let me suggest Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Eric Olin Wright. Both, coincidentally,…
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A Civil Society Strategy for the Left (Steve D'Arcy, The Bullet, Canada)
Peter sez:
In opposing the state-fixation of the 20th century Left, the author forgets another major fixation - on work! The early labour and left movements were in large part opposed to capitalist 'work', often referred to as wage-slavery (see the tee-shirt in the article). The first organised Russian Marxists called themselves The Emancipation of Labour. The best the International Trade Union Confederation can come up with is 'Decent Work', i.e. nice wage slavery. Most national…
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Worker Power in the Age of Austerity (Steven Tufts and Mark Thomas, The Bullet, Canada)
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Big Labour and Obama (via Dan Gallin, GLI, Geneva)
Labor Unions Adjust to New Reality Under Obama
04 September 11
n the early days of the Obama administration, organized labor had grand visions of pushing through a sweeping agenda that would help boost sagging membership and help revive union strength.
Now labor faces this reality: Public employee unions are in a drawn-out fight for their very…
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The International Union Crisis, Alternative Possibilities (Dan Gallin, GLI, Geneva)
Peter sez:
The GLI, http://www.globallabour.info/en/, is a labour network initiated by veteran social democrat, Dan Gallin, former General Secretary of the International Union of Foodworkers. It is unusual amongst non-academic sites for its interest in international labour history and traditions, its promotion of the organisation of 'labour's others'. It is networked with GLIs in the UK,…
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