STRONGER UNIONS

As most readers of this blog will be aware the US trade union movement is in the midst of an ongoing struggle to secure the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
The TUC has prepared a briefing for UK trade unionists on what you can do to help. This is vital stuff as the union-busters [...]

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Coming soon to the USA: the freedom to join a union which can bargain for workers’ rights.
The TUC has joined the campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act in the USA. Brendan Barber has written to the Prime Minister and to the US Embassy, and he’s written an article you could put on your website [...]

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For many people, life imitated TV when Barack Obama became President. They see him as the real-life embodiment of everyone’s favourite US President, Josiah (Jed) Bartlet from The West Wing. Now, though, as Obama’s real-life West Wing takes shape, some of the actors who played the President and his team have joined up to support publicly the [...]

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Jonathan Mann is doing an ambitious project to write a song a day, on a current affairs topic, or one chosen by web users. Rock Cookie Bottom is doing very well, and he’s churning out great short songs on a dizzying turn-around. We especially liked this one on EFCA – the Employee Free Choice Act [...]

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Paul Krugman, the winner of the Nobel prize for economics, says that the US needs the Employee Free Choice Act that US unions are campaigning for. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine (a journal of economic record, of course!) he says that the US economy needs unions just as much as workers do. Last time US [...]

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A friend sent me this – very funny but making a serious point.

Send a personalised one to your friends in the States here.

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“Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
The above is [...]

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