Move over Ming… Facebook is *so* 2006. John Edwards is letting us know what’s he’s up to minute by minute (or at least a couple times a day) at Twitter. Not sure of the *exact* point of this but, man, it’s current! He seems to be trying for the ‘internet candidate’ vote that Howard Dean …
Better weather for the Zimbabwe demonstration than Septemeber’s ZCTU one! Many of the protestors seemed to be expats and involved with MDC (who have borne the brunt of the latest crackdown), but there was at least one Amicus “Solidarity with the ZCTU” placard on display, after the raid on their offices. A core group of …
As if things couldn’t be bad enough in Zimbabwe, we’ve just had reports this morning that plain-clothes police have raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (9.45 Zim time), demanding they hand over publicity materials for the planned strike on 3/4 April or face a beating. Staff at the top of the …
Today it was the turn of new lecturers’ union, UCU, to announce their ballot for their first General Secretary, and this one was a bit closer run than yesterday’s T&G/Amicus merger vote. Sally Hunt, the General Secretary of AUT won with 52% of the vote under a new Single Transferable Vote system, which saw the …
At the merger announcement today, where T&G and Amicus revealed a very high in-favour vote (from a pretty high turnout) in both unions for the formation of a new super-union. Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley had a strong message about how the merger made industrial, financial and political sense. Derek Simpson said this had made …
Have you had a go at LabourSpace yet? It’s a sort of Big Brother for NGO campaigns. Every month there’s a new theme, and relevant lobby groups add their favourite campaigns. Users to the site vote on the campaigns, and the winner gets to have tea with Tony and Hazel and bend their ears a …
Barrie Clement (right) trips the light fantastic at a union reception Yesterday’s Media Guardian carried a very interesting article by Peter Wilby, which gave a number of clues as to the way work and union issues are reported in the UK. It concerned the apparently rapidly approaching extinction of the last of the UK’s labour …
New evidence suggests that Dave’s rude kid photo-op curse started long before we’d first thought:
Well, after pondering last week as to why the BNP wanted to set up their own union, it’s become clear in a very welcome way. They aren’t going to be getting into any others anytime soon. The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled today that unions can legitimately expel BNP members, thanks to …
Further to my recent post on the BNP union, Solidarity, and Skuds’ comment, I was interested to find this old news release (“Solidarity’s right wing friends“) from South African union federation COSATU, concerning South Africa’s own Solidarity union, and accusations that they are trying to maintain old “whites-only” job policies. I’d thought the BNP union …