STRONGER UNIONS

Here’s a video of some hardy Robin Hood Tax campaign merry men and women braving the 4am chill and nocturnal traffic wardens to beam a message ten metres high onto the side of Bank of England.
If you haven’t yet added your voice to the campaign, go do so now at the Robin Hood Tax website, [...]

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TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, speaking on what trade unions want from a Copenhagen deal, and how the transition to a low carbon economy would benefit British workers. From the Government’s ACT ON COPENHAGEN website.

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The ITUC and Sustainlabour just released this short video showing commitment of unions around the world to fight against climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference.
Sustainlabor is an independent train union foundation that aims to bring trade unions into the climate change challenge. They have produced this jointly with the [...]

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We’ve produced a flyer to advertise our new TUC 60 Second Advert Contest – a challenge to anyone to make a YouTube video about the positive role of trades unions. You can download it in pdf form here.
If you know anyone who likes online video, why not download a copy and send it on to [...]

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For more on the 60 Second Ad contest, check the contest page here.

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As you’ll have seen from previous posts (including the posts regarding the course ‘Lights, Camera, Action’ ) video sharing has become one of the most exciting parts of Internet culture. Trade unions have been quick to get involved. Sending out videos through YouTube, social networking sites, virals and blogs, unions have been able to get [...]

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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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Over 200 union organisers, officers, activists and reps joined us in London yesterday to help celebrate 10 years of the TUC Organising Academy at the ‘Building Stronger Unions’ event. We’ll be putting film footage of the day up on the Stronger Unions youtube channel over the next week or so, and we’ll circulating the results [...]

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