I've got some great new labor links to share with you this week! Check 'em out, and if there's something you don't see here, add it in the comments...
- A huge victory in New York: 28,000 child care workers joined the United Federation of Teachers, with help from both ACORN and Gov. Eliot Spitzer. This is great news, both for the workers and the children they care for, as standards of care for children, and quality of life for the workers, will both rise, and the city as a whole will benefit.
- American Rights at Work recently re-launched its website; they are now using the open source Joomla content management system. I know this is a very geeky thing to get excited about, but I'm lovin' their new RSS feed - it's the kind of thing that makes a blogger's day. Check out the new site and, while you're there, flip through ARAW's new report on Verizon's Broken Promises (PDF).
- An alert reader pointed me to U1TV on YouTube - it's a channel dedicated to pro-labor video clips. Bravo to David Williams for putting these videos online, and for adding some great Billy Bragg songs to the soundtrack. Next up? I'd love to see some videos about how to deal with abusive bosses, how to contact and join a union, what a union is about, etc. Even better? I'd like to see some of these videos make their way into mass media TV shows.
- A second round of bravos for David Williams are again in order for the recent launch of NoBusters, a site which exposes union-busting and leverages some of the videos on U1TV.
- There's a great piece in Alternet this week about Young Workers United, a new labor group which seeks to protect young workers from workplace abuse. In These Times has also published an interesting look at the Change to Win labor federation, asking whether the split from AFL-CIO resulted in tangible results.
- Last but certainly not least - some of you may remember my series of posts about an idea for an anti-union-busting blog aimed at employers and business owners. Well, we're all grown up now, with our own Google Group and everything. But we're still recruiting. So if you want to join an interesting project to help turn the tide against union busters, sign up! Just request to join the group (either in the comments or directly through the Google Groups interface) and I'll get you signed up.
Got anything else to share? Drop it in the comments!
