Remember the Health and Social Care Bill listening exercise, anyone? When former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley ran into difficulties with his Dick Dastardly NHS plans, he called a reflective pa...
Via a rather pissed off AFL-CIOnow today, I came across a Gawker article about Californian clothing company Unionmade Goods. They sell upmarket priced downmarket looking clothing to the good hips...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2012/11/30/unionmade-goods-not-actually-union-made-whodathunk/
The union Faceban saga took a new and depressing turn this week, after many people found they were prohibited from sharing a link to the activist site supporting unions’ industrial action on th...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2011/06/22/facebook-union-bans-three-strikes-and-youre-out/
With the world’s eyes on the problems facing an Arab Spring for Libya, Egypt, Syria and Bahrain, a fast moving crisis brewing in Iraq is in danger of slipping off the radar. As one of the regio...
The government are plotting another round of regulations on unions’ industrial action rights, if today’s Daily Mail article “Tories plot to curb unions to prevent second winter of disconten...
Cory Doctorow has a new young-adult novel out, and it’s something that union organisers and communicators very much need to read. For The Win meshes together the lives of people working in and ...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2010/05/13/for-the-win-cory-doctorow-and-the-rj-45-trousered-philanthropists/
I was thinking today about why trade unions don’t make a bigger deal of Open Source software – not just to use themselves more often, but as a model for the businesses their members work in. ...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2010/03/31/on-unions-and-open-source/
People sometimes ask me “John, why should trades unions get involved with Twitter?” No, honest, they really do, my life is *that* exciting at times… My standard response is that it all depe...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2010/02/02/when-the-unions-inspiration-through-its-twitter-feed-shall-run/
We’ve seen a whole bunch more union related blogs over the last year, at all levels of the movement (check out the lists at TIGMOO.co.uk for many of them). But one thing I’ve noticed has impr...
Another day, another aggregator. I’m getting quite into union aggregator sites of late, and think there could be something in this cheap and cheerful technology that could really be powerful fo...
http://johninnit.co.uk/2009/10/22/unions-and-web-aggregators/