STRONGER UNIONS

It’s been a while, but we’ve now updated the TUC Facebook application, My-Union. When Facebook released their new design, applications that were developed before were banished to the boxes page. Whilst the app still goes there by default now, clicking the little pencil button on its box header now lets you move it to your [...]

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Battlestar Galactica is great – a fact confirmed in today’s Guardian.
 
Ok, perhaps this isn’t the most obvious way to start a post on the Stronger Unions blog, but stick with me, I’ll get there soon.  There are lots of reasons for BSG’s greatness, which I won’t go into detail about here, but one is the way in [...]

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Here’s another inspirational real life story about how getting active in the union can not only change working conditions for friends and colleagues but can give a whole new meaning to life. If you  have a similar story to tell, let me know.
PCS member Tracy Walker was dissatisfied with conditions at the DWP Benefit Delivery Centre [...]

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It seems that no campaign is complete these days without someone setting up the ubiquitous accompanying Facebook group. Some of these have been really successful, some really haven’t. I’m a big fan of anything that can help unions organising but I think there are a couple of potential pitfalls in using Facebook so liberally.
The first is that Facebook [...]

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I was interested to read in the paper this week that Obama owns the internet when it comes to winning the election campaign. It seems that the use of this medium was due to the hostility of the US media to the centre left and hence the use of the internet in the US as [...]

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Tonight the organising team will be hosting a discussion in SecondLife on reps and facilities time.
If you’d like to join us click here for more information.
The event is just one element of a range of activity taking place on Union Island to mark May Day. Hope you can join us!

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