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Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:39 PM<br>Subject: New Unionism - Democratising Economics from the Workplace<br>To: <a href="mailto:newunionism@gmail.com">newunionism@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p align="right"><font color="#000000"><font color="#400080"><font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial" size="1">March 2014 <br>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font color="#400080"><b><font size="5"><img style="MIN-HEIGHT:175px;WIDTH:350px" alt="" src="cid:part2.06050407.04010908@newunionism.net" align="right" border="0" hspace="0"></font><font size="6">Work in
Progress</font></b></font><br>
</font><font color="#000000"><font>This
newsletter is
produced by the </font><a href="http://www.newunionism.net" target="_blank"><b><font color="#400080">New
Unionism Network</font></b></a><font> to promote
workplace democracy,
organizing,
internationalism and
creative thinking in
the union movement.
You are most welcome
to pass it on.
Better still, find
out about joining us
</font><a href="http://www.newunionism.net/join.htm" target="_blank"><b><font color="#400080">here</font></b></a><font>.</font></font></p>
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<div><font size="1"><font color="#400080" size="5"><font size="6"><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="-1"><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><b><font color="#400080" size="5">Putting
<em>OCCUPATION</em>
back into
unionism<br>
</font></b></font></font></font><font color="#000000" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="-1"><img alt="Guilds" src="cid:part5.08060509.04030900@newunionism.net" align="left" height="147" width="494">Industrial
unions replaced
guilds and
friendly
societies
during the
first wave of
new unionism -
starting
towards the
end of the
19th century.
Perhaps we
lost something
important
along the way?
Look at the
way people
talk about
their work: we
<i>do</i>
jobs; but we <i>are</i>
occupations.
In our final paper
on building
global
unionism, <strong>Guy
Standing</strong>
argues: <i>"what
we do and seek
to do is more
important than
who we do it
for."</i> In
fact, a
revived focus
on occupation
within
unionism might
help us
address some
of our most
difficult
problems:<br>
» How do we
organize and
bargain across
borders in an
age of
globalization?<br>
» How do we
organize "the
precariat",
who come and
go from
workplaces
before we can
reach them?<br>
» How do we
rebuilt
influence
whilst
struggling to
survive?</font>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Georgia,
Times New
Roman, Times,
serif" size="-1">What's
more, an
occupational
layer might
not require
any major
change to the
underlying
structure of
industrial
unions. This
is an idea you
need to think
about! </font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><font color="#400080" size="5"><font size="6"><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000" face="Georgia,
Times New
Roman, Times,
serif" size="-1"><b><a href="http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/global-unionism-the-occupational-citizenship-model/" target="_blank">More</a></b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><font color="#400080" size="5"><font size="6"><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000" face="Georgia,
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serif" size="-1"><b><a href="http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/global-unionism-the-occupational-citizenship-model/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span></span></font></font></a></b><strong><i><br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span></span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3"><font><strong><font size="5"><font color="#400080">A new strategic alliance?<br>
</font></font></strong><img alt="Fair Work
Union Made" src="cid:part8.01090004.06000305@newunionism.net" align="left" border="0" height="274" hspace="0" vspace="5" width="274">"Fair
Trade" has
been quietly
changing the
face of
retail. In
fact,
sales have
been
increasing by
almost 30% per
year. So what
about <em>Fair
Work</em>?
Strangely
enough, such a
label does not
exist. Yet an
alliance of
consumers and
producers
could offer
huge
benefits to
both. A recent
</font></font></font></font></span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3"><font>article
by <strong>Conor
Cradden</strong>
proposes the
creation of a
new
international
sustainability
standard:
"Fair Work,
Union Made".
Such a label
would certify
that <em>"wages
and working
conditions are
set through
ongoing
processes of
good faith
collective
bargaining"</em>.
While such a
standard would
not substitute
for collective
and individual
labour law,
says Cradden,
it would be an
effective
means of
promoting
collective
industrial
relations. You
can find out
more about the
idea here: <b><a href="http://goo.gl/hEDmOg" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/hEDmOg</a></b>.
And if you are
interested in
being part of
a small team
to take the
idea further,
contact <b><a href="mailto:communications@newunionism.net" target="_blank">communications@newunionism.net</a></b>.<br>
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<div><font size="1"><font size="3"><font size="1"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3"><font><strong><font size="5"><font color="#400080">Development-led economics<br>
</font></font></strong></font></font></font></font></span></font></font><img alt="invisible
hands" src="cid:part11.09020704.07090902@newunionism.net" align="left" border="0" height="187" hspace="0" vspace="7" width="291">Is
export-led
development
the only way
to a brighter
future for
poor
countries? Or
is it just a
convenient way
for a small
group of
people in
these
countries (and
their
counterparts
in the global
north) to make
a lot of
money? An
alternative
strategy - </font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3"><font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font>focusing on expanding domestic demand -
has been shown
to produce
more in the
way of social
and economic
benefits.
However,
development-led
economics is a
strategy that
is being kept
off the
agenda. Could
this be
because it
requires
involving
workers in
decisions
about pay and
conditions? We
take a serious
look at this
question with
the help of a
critical and
widely-overlooked
UNCTAD paper <b><a href="http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/collective-industrial-relations-development-economics-for-the-global-north/#more-2388" target="_blank">here</a></b>.
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<div><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font>
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<div><font size="1"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3"><font><strong><font size="5"><font color="#400080">Reasons to be cheerful<br>
</font></font></strong></font></font></font></font></span></font><img alt="ILO" src="cid:part13.01070805.01010906@newunionism.net" align="left" border="0" height="161" hspace="0" vspace="5" width="265">E</font>mployers’
representatives
at the ILO
have recently
started
worrying that
freedom of
association
and collective
bargaining
rights might
mean more than
offering
workers a seat
at the table
and then
proceeding to
ignore them.
They seem to
have finally
realised that
the <i>point</i>
of freedom of
association is
to allow
workers to
challenge
unilateral
managerial
control over
business costs
and
organization.
For the last
couple of
years they've
battled to
ensure this
right means as
little as
possible in
practice.
However, a new
report from
the ILO’s
independent
legal advisory
body - the
Committee of
Experts -
suggests the
battle is not
going their
way. It seems
that ILO
workers'
representatives
have employers
on the back
foot over the
thorny issue
of the right
to strike. <b><a href="http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/ilo-workers-representatives-call-employers-bluff-on-right-to-strike/" target="_blank">More»</a></b></font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></font></font>
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<div align="left"><font size="1"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000"><font size="1"><span><font color="#000000"><font><font size="3"><font><strong><font size="5"><font color="#400080">Reframing trade: Unions vs GATS<br>
</font></font></strong></font></font></font></font></span></font><img alt="Reframing" src="cid:part15.03080708.01030004@newunionism.net" align="left" border="0" height="187" hspace="0" vspace="7" width="311">Network
member <b>Mike
Waghorne</b>
has written in
to recommend
Donna
McGuire's
recent book:
"Re-framing
Trade: union
mobilisation
against the
General
Agreement on
Trade in
Services
(GATS)". The
book is
derived from
McGuire's
thesis, in
which she
looked at the
work of two of
the biggest
global union
federations:
Public
Services
International
(PSI) and
Education
International
(EI). </font></font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></span></font></font></span></span></font></font></font></font><font size="1"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><span><font color="#000000"><font><span><font color="#000000"><font><font color="#000000">She includes
extensive case
studies on
union
campaigns in
Australia and
South Africa.
Not only does
McGuire look
at the
successes
achieved, she
also looks at
various
campaign
failures --
something not
often found in
work on union
campaigns! <b><a href="http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/re-framing-trade-union-mobilisation-against-gats/" target="_blank">More»</a></b><br>
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no wages
(sorry - I
should have
mentioned that
earlier!).
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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