This week I’ve been pondering going to see “A Scanner Darkly”, as I’m all home alone – cinema isn’t something I normally get the oppo for. When I rang the missus, she asked why I wasn’t more interested in Snakes On A Plane – after all I’d been telling her about it for ages, whereas …
Seems like things are getting tricky for McDonalds. Still losing share after a healthy makeover, in the States they seem to be turning for parterships to the few people who’ll still have them. Yes, you guessed it, the only people dodgy enough out there must be monster car makers Hummer. McD’s are actually handing out …
The case of Mumsnet vs Gina Ford, M’lud. A bit of a spat in the world of Contented Babies this week, after übernanny Ford took umbrage at uncomplimentary postings on a volunteer run community site for mums. Her lawyers have demanded 5 conditions of Mumsnet, two of which seem reasonable, and two slightly over the …
Good coverage in FT, BBC, Guardian for today’s new TUC company finder tool – it’s a neato search that lets you find out company structures and performance for UK companies – things like profits, shareholders, ultimate holding companies and so on. Unsurprisingly though, the angle that’s been picked up on in the media is the …
New animation by Eclectech and Doghorse, in which a puppy comes unstuck after taking a job offer without checking out the firm. A Very Personal Assistant.
A while back I had the honour of meeting some trade unionists from different Iraqi unions at a UK union event. I remember being extremely impressed by their bravery in trying to build a labour movement against the odds. One had received death threats simply for being a woman in a high profile position, another …
Dress down Tuesday, hurrah, courtesy of the TUC! Pity I’m normally fairly lax on this front anyway. I tend to start a new job looking fairly dapper (I invariably have to buy proper trousers and shoes for the first time in ages), but then as I start spotting more and more colleagues in elements of …
Sometimes being a union activist can seem a bit like being a living history exhibit – especially when you’re something of a n00b sitting in a branch meeting with all the unfathomable age-old rules and age-old grudges. Anyway, it’s nice to know, via this missive from the future published in The Morning News, that giant-mega-space-robots …
Well, yes apparently we do now, and it’s called Labourhome.org. Very mysterious, a nice open blog to stimulate debate in Labour’s digital grassroots (grassw00ts?) circles – a MySpace for us tired lefty hacks. It’s quite elegant (in the way only an empty website can be) and it seems to be built to encourage newbies to …
New from the AFL-CIO (American Unions) is this rather amusing new campaign, where beleagured wage slaves post in their tales of bad boss woe, and other users get to vote on them. The winner gets an expenses paid holiday (presumably to find a new job after their boss reads the story). Admittedly this is in …