UnionBook - The social network for trade unionists

The social network for trade unionists - a LabourStart project.

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RMTV: Free the Miami 5 (October 19, 2010)

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The hell of call centers in France (and probably morocco)

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René la Taupe - Manifestons !

Added by Andy Funnell

UnionJobs.com

UnionJob: Worksite Organizer – Chico and Redding, SEIU Local 1021, in California. Job at http://www.unionjobs.com/staff/ca/seiu1021-110.html

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Blog Posts

International Labour Organization staff demand decent working conditions - ILO workers take historic global job action

Posted by Christopher Land-Kazlauskas on November 9, 2010 at 7:56pm

A New Unionism in the UK?

Posted by peter waterman on November 9, 2010 at 5:45pm

France: the Student-Worker Relationship

Posted by peter waterman on November 9, 2010 at 3:08pm

Latest Activity

Olivier Roy @scfpcupe2626 publie Bulletin de négos : Progrès des négos, Vote de mandat de grève. À lire! http://ning.it/9PI83x #uottawa #syndicat #SCFP

15 minutes ago

Olivier Roy @scfpcupe2626 publishes Bargaining Newsletter: #Bargaining Report, Strike Mandate Vote. To read! http://ning.it/9OFPuH #uottawa #union #CUPE

20 minutes ago

Irma Arkus commented on Larry Hubich's blog post 'Sask. Party government thumbs its nose at United Nations - ILO'

thank you for the documentation - this helps a lot with understanding of what the changes and potential impact it has - have workers been subjected to being deemed 'essential' already? has this interfered with anyone's strike yet?

41 minutes ago

A discussion started by Irma Arkus was featured

Social Media Tool: Act.ly

Twitter petition tool that makes organizing Tweeters a breeze: http://act.ly/ Description: You sign a petition by tweeting it, and other people can sign the petition just be re-tweeting it. There’s no need to go to the act.ly site, except to start…

44 minutes ago

Irma Arkus added 2 discussions to the group Social Media & Unionism

44 minutes ago

Larry Hubich commented on Irma Arkus's group 'Social Media & Unionism'

I'm glad you started this group. I'm looking forward to the discussion.

1 hour ago

Larry Hubich joined Irma Arkus's group

Social Media & Unionism

Discussion on social media technology and its impact on labour activism.

2 hours ago

Larry Hubich commented on Larry Hubich's blog post 'Sask. Party government thumbs its nose at United Nations - ILO'

Sorry Irma, for not providing more background. Check out this link: http://www.sfl.sk.ca/pdfs/Labour%20Rights%20Backgrounder%20September%202009.pdf

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Irma Arkus added a group

Social Media & Unionism

Discussion on social media technology and its impact on labour activism.

2 hours ago

Irma Arkus commented on Larry Hubich's blog post 'Sask. Party government thumbs its nose at United Nations - ILO'

can you elaborate on Bills 5&6 and what are some of the repercussions for the workers in Saskatchewan?

2 hours ago

General Defense Committee Local6 RBC Bank arson in Ottawa: Roger Clement pleads guilty, charges against other two suspects dropped for lack of evidence http://ning.it/9HwBUy

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General Defense Committee Local6 and Don Muhr are now friends

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Andy Funnell Algeria : another crackdown on an independent union activist… http://ning.it/97tIJV

3 hours ago

Andy Funnell Algérie : nouvelle répression d'un militant d'un syndicat indépendant ...http://ning.it/b7lruW

3 hours ago

SIGTUR replied to Don Sutherland's discussion 'G20 preparations' in the group SIGTUR Country Struggles

Korean government suppresion continues with the refusal to issue of visa,s to a delegation of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) official. The Sigtur (Southern Initiative on Globalization and Trade Union Rights) regional coordinating committee was…

4 hours ago

Bill Galloway and Christopher Land-Kazlauskas joined Eric Lee's group

Toward 1,000,000 Members

A group to discuss ways to grow UnionBook. If you have ideas, or if you've tried something, let us. This is the place to talk about how we get thousands more trade unionists to use UnionBook.

4 hours ago

Christopher Land-Kazlauskas commented on Carlo Tarantola's group 'Labor Union Staff'

Thought this might be of interest to this group. We're not technically "Labor Union Staff" but I thought the struggle of the ILO Staff to ensure respect for collective bargaining and freedom of association might be of interest here: International L…

5 hours ago

Christopher Land-Kazlauskas joined Carlo Tarantola's group

Labor Union Staff

For those of us working for Labor Unions, where the Union is the employer and the special challenges that we face.

5 hours ago

Christopher Land-Kazlauskas added a blog post

International Labour Organization staff demand decent working conditions - ILO workers take historic global job action

(Geneva, Switzerland) Workers at the United Nations agency responsible for ensuring that governments and employers uphold international labour standards say that their own employer is not abiding by the decent work principles it espouses. Staff at…

5 hours ago

Bill Galloway left a comment for Mike Schwerin

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