Kyiv conference demands justice for Kazakh oil workers
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Nov 5 2013 12:12
A campaign to free imprisoned activists, and get the truth about a police massacre, is going international.
The “justice for Kazakhstan oil workers” campaign was the central focus of a conference of independent trades union activists, socialists and human rights campaigners from across the former Soviet Union at the weekend.
Has PCS been outflanked to the left by a bosses’ union?
Submitted by Phil on Oct 21 2013 17:20
A look at two of many attacks faced by workers in HM Revenue & Customs. The contrasting responses from clerical grade union PCS and senior grade union ARC are worth noting, but not for the reason you might guess.
Listing all of the ongoing issues and disputes within HMRC at present would be an essay in itself. Suffice to say, there are a lot. In this post I want to talk about two in particular; the imposition of detrimental new terms and conditions for staff and the quotas in the new performance management system which are aimed at making it easier to sack the “bottom 10%” of staff from the job.
'This is class warfare' the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe
Submitted by wojtek on Oct 11 2013 21:30
Lucien van der Walt on the potential of Zimbabwean trade unions' to force change during a wave of strike action in 1998.
Trade unions in Zimbabwe: For democracy, against neo-liberalism
Submitted by wojtek on Oct 11 2013 21:09
Lucien van der Walt's paper on the state of organised labour in Zimbabwe circa 1998.
Meaningful work: an appeal to the young
Submitted by s.nappalos on Oct 8 2013 12:52
An article about meaning in choosing employment.
From the time I was a child, I was told to follow my dreams and do something I truly loved. Granted I rarely met an adult who was passionate about their work, but they seemed sincere in their desire for others to take that path. The advice of course usually had a piece of bitterness attached to it. As I came of age, the terrain didn’t look pretty.
The death of the liberal class - Chris Hedges
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy.
It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people.
G.M.W.U. - scab union - Mark Fore
A close look at the General and Municipal Workers Union. It was published by Solidarity (London) in February 1970 (Solidarity pamphlet No. 32).
PREAMBLE TO RULES OF THE GASWORKERS UNION 1892
(The National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers, founded in March 1889, was the main stem from which the General and Municipal Workers' Union, after many amalgamations, was to come.)
The North Sea 3. Coal, oil and after
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 15 2013 12:17
The third part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.
Gabriel Levy. All the events you have described, from Piper Alpha onwards, took place in the aftermath of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. How do these things relate to each other?
The North Sea 2. The OILC and the unions
Submitted by wojtek on Sep 15 2013 12:10
The second part of an interview with Neil Rothnie about North Sea oil workers’organisation.
Gabriel Levy. When the OILC was set up, in the aftermath of the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, what was it aiming to do?
Neil Rothnie. Ronnie Macdonald had a vision of the OILC being a ginger group to force the unions to get their act together, to collaborate and to do what unions were supposed to do.
GL. What did other workers think? And what did you think?
The union-management GM strike, 1970 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 13 2013 18:10
A brief history of the interesting national strike of the United Auto Workers union at General Motors, organised in conjunction with management to allow workers to blow off steam.
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