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Union-busting at the drop of a hat |
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Written by Steve Davies
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Barack Obama is the first ever credible black contender for presidential nomination. However the scale of the challenge he faces can be seen from a bitter labour dispute taking place in ‘the heart of Dixie’. Despite fifty years of civil rights legislation, sportswear workers employed by the New Era Cap Company in Mobile, Alabama feel that little has changed in their workplace.
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Union renewal: the example of the FAT |
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Written by richard leitch
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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This piece is an introduction to the practice of Mexico's Authentic Labour Front(FAT) and its development of an internationalist social movement unionism over the last two decades. Could we learn any lessons from the struggle to achieve independent union representation - and much else besides - in the hostile climate of neo-liberal Mexico??
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Network Unions: Working Women's Organizing Activities in Japan |
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Written by Dirk Kloosterboer
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
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In order to overcome shortcomings of traditional unions, new grassroots organisations including women’s unions, community unions, part-time workers’ unions, and even a managers’ union have been formed in Japan, write Heidi Gottfried and Anne Zacharias-Walsh. Traditional unions generally excluded women, immigrant and temporary workers from union membership or have been ineffective at addressing their concerns.
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Beyond ‘Social Movement Unionism’? Understanding and Assessing New Wave Labour Movement Organising |
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Written by Anthony Ince
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
As the person who invented the concept of Social Movement Unionism, around 1985, I welcome what I would consider to be the first serious attempt to surpass it. Anthony Ince considers the concept too general and prefers to consider a broad range of new labour movement phenomena. I have only one or two initial qualifications, or questions, in mind. The first is something Ince himself admits, that he doesn't go into his subject matter at international/global level. The second might be: OK, this range of phenomena is recognisable, and the relations between them sensitively shown, but how do we advance the new movement(s)? And how - given the differences he argues between national situations - could we develop the disparate phenomena into a global movement. Source: European Library for Social Transformation. (Pater Waterman)
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Union values survey |
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Written by Peter HJ
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
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Pretty much everybody knows what unions are opposed to, but what are we in favour of? Or are we just reacting to an agenda set by others? The New Unionism network is running a survey on union values. We would really appreciate if if you could take a couple of minutes to help us. As you'll see, the interim results already contain some surprises. Click here to find out more.
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