For a long time I have felt that online union organizing, mobilizing and education included sharing news and views of the labor movement that doesn't usually make it to mainstream media. Over the years I have met a lot of progressives who'd say they'd be in support of most labor issues, if they knew what they were. In part, this is what I work to do with my site Union Review. What is interesting though is that I fall into the same rut a lot of other organizers do: I end up preaching to the choir. I don't often get to sites like Kos to cross-post our news and engage in conversation about the issues, instead I will spend hours on Facebook and Twitter spreading the news to workers that happen to be on those social media sites.
Today I thought would be a perfect time to share some of the stories that made it to UnionReview with Kos readers. My goal here to just inform folks about some of the things going on in the labor movement, and of course this list of news items is hardly exhaustive -- there is so much more going on that I don't get to.
Meet me on the other side of the fold for the links to stories that made it to Union Review in the last month or so.
I hope you have a few minutes to get to some of these stories. Please keep in mind that I didn't write most of these, in fact most are written by correspondents to the site or are cross-posted from sites I enjoy the most.
Have a great Sunday!
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Shaw's Workers Strike Company in Methuen, Mass.
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Temporary Workers Made to Think Twice Before Taking Union Jobs
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