A New Dot Com For Unions
from the labor-stuff dept
Considering I actually have a degree in labor relations, it's a little surprising to me to realize that this may be the first Techdirt post ever having to do with labor unions. To make it even better, it's got two totally unrelated articles about unions. First, there's the news that people are trying to organize a union at Amazon.com. Apparently, these dot coms didn't really reinvent the way employees are treated. Perhaps Amazon should look into this new dot com which is designed to help manage labor grievances through an ASP model. Maybe someone should apply to ICANN for .union?
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uh huh
Get a .union? Nah
Get a .welfare and a .drunk first.
Spaz
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over reacted?
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Unionization efforts at "dot.coms"
www.labourstart.org
and
www.labourstart.org/usa for US specific info
as well as trying
www.yahoo.com
and plugging in "labor" and seeing what news articles appear at the top of the search respopnse list, and then doing the same, after perusing the articles, with "union" and then the same with "workers."
You'd be amased what you'll find.
The AFL-CIO website as well as
www.workingfamilies.com
as well as
www.workingforchange.com
are all places with worthwhile information.
Please let me know if the above is helpful.
And feel free to share it with others!
>> Arieh L.
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