Dot Com Union Organizing Is Contagious
from the oh-no!--run!--unions!-- dept
An amusing article over at CFO.com where they appear to freak out about the recent union organizing attempt at Amazon.com and warn that union organizing within dot coms can be contagious. They suggest ways that dot com management can prepare themselves in order to ward off the evil curse of unionization. Perhaps they should start by not automatically thinking of unions as evil "virus-like" creatures. Of course, that would be too difficult. Anyway, it appears that the management at eTown did not read the article because the evil virus has already spread there.
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How to get info on unionizing efforts at "dot.com"
A great way to get news on what unionization efforts there are at and for "dot.com" workers is to try these two websites:
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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