Solidarity – for starters
A longer show than usual – sorry. We get into a debate about the practical implications of global solidarity.
1:10 Stephen has spent more time with the Free Software Foundation
- The Free Software Foundation are unionised! They have a contract (recognition agreement) with the UAW
- Our work here is done – the free and open source software and the trade union movements working together
3:00 Walton has been training finance sector reps
- In the UK, finance sector workers are organised by Unite, Accord and a few smaller unions.
- Union density in finance is not very high, but there are some excellent reps
- Because they are white collar workplaces, they are ideal for organising with social media
7:00 We review Google+
- Circles, like Diaspora’s Aspects, makes it easier to manage different areas of your life
- Opt in following like twitter
- Much better at privacy than Facebook
- Hangouts allows video chat with up to 20 people. Easy to set up and potentially useful for online union meetings
- Google uses Open Source XMPP protocol for chat and video call
- Video calls and chat are encrypted and not recorded by default, but…
- Calls can be recorded at the request of law enforcement
- Google’s response to questions about privacy
- A really good review of Google+, with a focus on privacy settings
- At least Google is being honest with us – and ordinary phone calls can be recorded too
- Google+ doesn’t accept pseudonyms – @GrrlScientist is unhappy
15:00 The social contract has broken down
- HSBC makes £7 billion profit and axes 30,000 jobs
- Greek waiters occupy their workplaces
- Ronald Reagan and air traffic controllers
- Is Obama any better? Not so much.
- You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
23:00 We need to renegotiate the social contract
- Comment thread started by CausticCastle of the IWW
- Global Union Federations and One Big Union
- International Framework Agreements – international collective agreements that cover the supply chain
- Unite and ASDA supply chain agreement – ASDA is owned by Wal-Mart, which is anti-union in the US
- More on Unite campaigns in supermarket supply chains
- César Chávez and the National Farm Workers Association won labor rights for agricultural workers in California
38:00 Feedback
- Fab from Linux Outlaws Flattr’d us – thanks!
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