Well, that’s another Congress over. I watched a pretty empty looking hall on telly for the last words, which this year went to David Hencke of the Guardian, with the traditional less-than-serious “Reply from the Media”. He proposed a new round of Union Modernisation money to be spent entirely on high-tech innovations. The upcoming “Winter …
Stung by their employer’s decision to ban access to Facebook during their work breaks, staff at Medway Hospital have voiced their protest by, you guessed it, starting a Facebook group. On a slightly less arch note, you can also join a Facebook group to support the staff at Fremantle Trust in their dispute against an …
Thanks to the tenacious Lancaster UAF blog for this story about the BNP-linked union Solidarity’s latest campaign. A County Durham teacher and former BNP candidate, Mark Walker, has been suspended for something related to computer misuse. Solidarity claim it was the innocent popular past-time of visiting the BNP’s website. The head claims it was something …
Loads of coverage today for this. Hopefully stop a few more knee-jerk Facebook bans. Whilst an employer is obviously well within their rights to stop personal use of their own kit, it’s a bit silly to just stop Facebook because of the hype, and ignore the others, or whatever comes next. Do the nation’s managers …
I’m really coming round to how good this new Tory viral ad format is. I mean, loads of stuff must have doubled under Labour that they could make videos about. Got me thinking…
Nice note from Asabailey, viral marketing gurus and new Tory ad agency. I like their stuff a lot (my favourite of late has to be their Cannes Web2.0 song – more than a bit NSFW btw). Anyway, they’re showing the first of their new series of Tory attack ads on YouTube: In response to Lord …
Ah.. it all makes sense now: Of the 27 members of David Cameron’s Shadow Cabinet, 12 have outside jobs with 32 directorships between them. The 120 members of the shadow government team hold 115 paid directorships or other outside posts between them. This means they rake in thousands on top of their £60,675-a-year MP salaries. …
A rather cramped demo on the pavement opposite the Iranian Embassy today. The Embassy is set back from the road and has a big wall built in the way to keep us out, but the police needn’t really have bothered to squash us into so tight a corral, as it looked like they weren’t home …
So there I am getting pissed off with Vodafone after they monkey with my contract terms mid-contract, and refuse recognition for Connect in the UK and CWU in South Africa, and my contract comes up, so I ring them and say I’m off to nice unionised O2 in protest. They say they’ll put a PAC …
I noticed something I liked a lot today. A bunch of CWU members, the dodgyclaimers, made a pop video parody to promote the union’s dispute with Royal Mail, and stuck it on YouTube. To say it’s not very polished would be a bit of an understatement, but it more than gets the point across – …