Cyberunions Podcat Episode 71 I’ll have a nice cold brew in the morning

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Updates

• Stephen brews coffee cold with instruction from a fictional book
• Walton is drinking the other beer…a Williams Brothers Scottish Session Ale
• Surreality life of Walton did weird things in front of a mic
• Walton is now a bloody Brit with a stiff upper lip
• Stephen suggest we take the show on tour now that Walton can travel
• Walton and Stephen have a netbooky moment
• Shall we go live? We are thinking about if we should broadcast when we record the show…who would listen?
• We recorded this show in 2006
• Stephen might do a fresh install again
• Marxcyle posts again with his new tires
• Can bikes read?

Labor

• The tech and engineering workers agreed to create a two tier system with the evil of the 401(k) vs pension and the two tier system
• Unions lose power when the pension goes bye bye the 401(k) reinforces the market and weakens the worker
• With a pension fund unions can threaten to divest from organizations they want to put pressure on
• Some unions like the United Steel Workers is using thier pension to create worker run cooperatives
• The 401(k) rant worth the rant
• Could or does there exist a worker run cooperative investment program
• What does a union look like, does it need to say union in it?
• Players Association is a union, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA)
• Some of the most powerful unions are not a named a union, though in some cases they are not wanting to align with the politics or perceived unions
• The 10 year anniversary of the Iraq war and labor against the war
• A call to action to support Union Activist in Iraq

Tech

• Webrtc testing it out, part of it is just using your browser to be the means for conferences
• We had our brief experience … with bugs we could not get the video and audio to work on both sides
• Big Blue Button attempt to try to install will happen this Tuesday to meet the request of the mayfirst leadership committee
• Tech is a team effort because working in collectively brings the benefit of extra eyes
• Many people think that supporting a website is easy or setting up the installation, unfortunately that is not true
• One example late night hacking Stephen was up until 2 am working with a colleague trying install trac
• Recap of the idea to broadcast the show live instead of just a download
• We made each other look funny to hide our identity from the CIA

Feedback

• Walton needs to speak up apparenlty his voice level was not even in episode 69
• The co-op hands logo is not a software.coop creation – we just use it. I think I got it from Calverts.coop
• mjray keeps us on our toes

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