Monthly Archives: February 2011
Open source trade unions
Is Open Source organising the way forward for trade unions? Some people seem to think so, but are we even sure what it means? Trade unions in the West have been in decline since the late 1970s. This is because the capitalist crisis of the early 70s was caused in part by a powerful labour […]
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In organising we need to be a wee bit off the wall because it works. – Finance sector seconded rep, Female, 31-40 There are a number of different organising models within the trade union movement. The Unite model sees organising as a specialist function that is ‘strategic,sectoral and global’, and was inspired by the ‘Justice […]
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