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What’s Happening? The Truth About Work & The Myth of “Work-Life Balance”. |
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Written by Edited by Sheila Cohen
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
Workers, activists, union supporters… Find out "What's Happening??" in the workplace - today!!
In 1998, a range of workplace trade union activists provided contributions to a much-appreciated pamphlet, "What's happening?
The Truth About Work…& the Myth of Partnership". The pamphlet focused on strategies and tactics that work - both in winning victories against management and getting members involved.
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EMPLOYED BY ALL RECOGNISED BY NONE -The Status of Domestic Workers in India |
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Written by Pravin SINHA
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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The domestic workers are employed in almost all households. The development process and resultant increase in demands have led to increased entry of women in labour market. This in turn has caused demand for domestic workers to undertake works earlier performed by housewives. The domestic workers, not covered under any of the labour laws, are faced with varied kinds of exploitation. The workers, in the background of increased supply found themselves in a catch 22 situation. The government role has not been very positive. There is need for concerned effort to organise then to secure due recognition
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Keele: No course closures. No redundancies |
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Written by Union Ideas Network (UIN)
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
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One of the last remaining Industrial Relations departments in the UK is facing the axe. In December 2007, senior management at Keele University announced proposal to close all industrial relations / human resource management programmes as part of a ‘restructuring’ of the School of Management and Economic Studies resulting in 38 out of 67 staff being sacked, including 10 from the 12 in the Industrial Relations group.
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Ethnic minority representation at work - new research project |
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Written by Jane Holgate
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
In February 2007 a research team at the Working Lives Research Institute were granted £317k to undertake an in-depth research project focusing on how black and ethnic minority (BME) workers access support for problems at work.
This project, titled ‘Influences of identity, community and social networks on ethnic minority representation at work’ will be undertaken by Dr Jane Holgate, Dr Meeta Jha, Janroj Keles (Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University) and Professor Anna Pollert (University of West of England).
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Workers are doing it for themselves: Examining creative employee application of Web 2.0 communicatio |
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Written by James Richards
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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The looks at new forms of Web communication technology and how new Web communication technologies may affect the future direction of industrial relations. The main foci of the paper is Web 2.0, or the recent transformation of the World-Wide-Web to allow ordinary people to get involved in creating on-line content (e.g. blogs, wikis and social networking platforms), and, increasing evidence that non-organized workers are applying this new wave of communication technologies for work and employment-related ends. It is put forward that non-organized workers are progressively making more use of such technology as a means to develop their careers, take action against employers, and, as a mean to misbehave and survive work. The method applied to assess the proposed trends involves reviewing scholarly research, anecdotal accounts of worker activity from newspapers, and observations of Internet activity noted by the author of the paper. The conclusions suggest there is superficial, yet strong evidence to suggest workers are increasingly experimenting and being highly creative with Web 2.0 communication technology, for a range of work and employment-related ends. Due to the newness of the technology, however, the results generate far more unknowns than answers. Guidance for future research activities are summarised in the conclusions.
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