2003-09-30
Check out Nathan Newman's weblog - good stuff
Check out Nathan Newman's weblog - good stuff
He sites this site and Teo's work at Vivos Voco
He sites this site and Teo's work at Vivos Voco
US students: USAS Tarrant 'Week of Action'
US students: USAS Tarrant 'Week of Action' via NoSweat
The internet as an organizing tool
The internet as an organizing tool
The Appledore Work-In a timely example of how we can network and build solidarity on the web and look how close their site looks like ours! Looks like they need an RSS feed and comments, hey just look over at the side bar to find out how to do those! You can win!! Solidarity, Mark
Found via BillyHayes
The Appledore Work-In a timely example of how we can network and build solidarity on the web and look how close their site looks like ours! Looks like they need an RSS feed and comments, hey just look over at the side bar to find out how to do those! You can win!! Solidarity, Mark
Found via BillyHayes
2003-09-29
Join us on the picket lines! Support Miami workers!
AFSCME Local 209, the union representing nearly 900 service workers at Miami University in Southwest Ohio, is on strike as of 12:01 a.m. Friday, September 26.
The primary reasons are 20% below-market pay, increasing health care costs, and the University's rejection of "fair share" dues paying. As one woman on strike put it, "I'm tired of being broke!"
The concept is a simple one: no one who works at Miami should need to use public assistance, as an estimated 20-25% of the bargaining unit do. It is outrageous that Miami workers struggle to make it from paycheck to paycheck as Miami increases tuition 10% annually.
Miami has the funds - ability to pay has never been an issue at the negotiating table - but administrators choose to prioritize spending $500 million in facilities over 20 years over a living wage.
Miami is also spending hundreds of thousands of tuition dollars on union-busting law firms, Pinkerton thugs, police overtime, and temporary scabs. All this to defeat a living wage the lowest-paid workers on campus!
Watch your e-mail for action alerts and updates. The success of this strike depends on the support of people like you.
--Students in the Miami University Fair Labor Coalition
More info in the comments section
The primary reasons are 20% below-market pay, increasing health care costs, and the University's rejection of "fair share" dues paying. As one woman on strike put it, "I'm tired of being broke!"
The concept is a simple one: no one who works at Miami should need to use public assistance, as an estimated 20-25% of the bargaining unit do. It is outrageous that Miami workers struggle to make it from paycheck to paycheck as Miami increases tuition 10% annually.
Miami has the funds - ability to pay has never been an issue at the negotiating table - but administrators choose to prioritize spending $500 million in facilities over 20 years over a living wage.
Miami is also spending hundreds of thousands of tuition dollars on union-busting law firms, Pinkerton thugs, police overtime, and temporary scabs. All this to defeat a living wage the lowest-paid workers on campus!
Watch your e-mail for action alerts and updates. The success of this strike depends on the support of people like you.
--Students in the Miami University Fair Labor Coalition
More info in the comments section
2003-09-28
Immigrant Freedom Ride
Immigrant Freedom Ride weblog post by Teo Reyes
2003-09-27
Right on!
Andrew O Baoill nails the concept what it means to be a troublemaker....
2003-09-24
VW threatens Brazilian workers
VW threatens Brazilian workers via FunFeral
More Protest Pictures
From the Ford Protest, thanks Michael Eisenscher
p.s. can we explain in a short paragraph the protest?
earlier picture post
p.s. can we explain in a short paragraph the protest?
earlier picture post
2003-09-18
This site is a work in progress!
Hello Folks,
The official, unofficial 2003 Labor Notes conference WikiWeblog is when we fight for our rights....
I have been asked to make this page (they call us troublemakers) the front page of the WikiWeblog, which I have no problem doing. But I am not going to move the few posts from the conference here, just bop over there for now.
The initial work that needs to be done to this site is a cleaner link bar (on left, folks suggest links?) and I need to make sure that all the RSS feeds and comments features are working on AllPages.
I also need to set up NewIsFree to be the default RecentChanges.
All this in one week, it will be a cake walk! :-) MarkDilley
(with your help, anything will be easy!)
The official, unofficial 2003 Labor Notes conference WikiWeblog is when we fight for our rights....
I have been asked to make this page (they call us troublemakers) the front page of the WikiWeblog, which I have no problem doing. But I am not going to move the few posts from the conference here, just bop over there for now.
The initial work that needs to be done to this site is a cleaner link bar (on left, folks suggest links?) and I need to make sure that all the RSS feeds and comments features are working on AllPages.
I also need to set up NewIsFree to be the default RecentChanges.
All this in one week, it will be a cake walk! :-) MarkDilley
(with your help, anything will be easy!)
2003-09-13
hmm
Check out the LaborNotes unofficial 2003 conference
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Not sure why the post, organize or die is still here, thoughtI erased it!
This version of how to make a WikiWeblog needs to be broken down into several steps.
Educate
* What is a Weblog? (some say "Blog")
** A weblog is just a web site organized by time.
* What is a NewsAggregator
** software that periodically reads a set of news sources ... finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page
Agitate
* Do you wish there was a LaborCalendar that you could find out what Solidarity Actions need to happen?
* Do you wish you could read all your email for the important chunks of information?
* In fact, don't you just wish email was for one on one communication?
* Shouldn't many to many communication be easier?
Organize
* Easier to self organize information
* We become the media
* Easily learn to produce and read the news you want - WikiWeblog
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Not sure why the post, organize or die is still here, thoughtI erased it!
This version of how to make a WikiWeblog needs to be broken down into several steps.
Educate
* What is a Weblog? (some say "Blog")
** A weblog is just a web site organized by time.
* What is a NewsAggregator
** software that periodically reads a set of news sources ... finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page
Agitate
* Do you wish there was a LaborCalendar that you could find out what Solidarity Actions need to happen?
* Do you wish you could read all your email for the important chunks of information?
* In fact, don't you just wish email was for one on one communication?
* Shouldn't many to many communication be easier?
Organize
* Easier to self organize information
* We become the media
* Easily learn to produce and read the news you want - WikiWeblog
2003-09-11
First Day Attempts
I feel fairly successful, I started this project a few weeks ago and it has blossomed into kind of a cool idea.
FrontPage
I am having fun building this easy dynamic WikiWeblog.
Anyone can join my wiki meme, or start one of their own. We get updates through the NewsAgregators.
Anyone can join my wiki meme, or start one of their own. We get updates through the NewsAgregators.
