Way back in the early days of the Internet (in December 1996, to be exact), I noticed something new on the Amazon.com website. It was called an “affiliate program”. It offered websites something extraordinary: the chance to share in Amazon’s soon-to-be multibillion dollar revenue stream. I jumped at the chance and began selling Amazon’s books through my own website, collecting around ten percent of the cover price of every book I could sell.
But soon it became clear that Amazon was pursuing a ruthlessly anti-union policy as it expanded, and being that my site was a union site, I couldn’t very well continue as a partner with this company
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I am sure you will have read the promotion in the TUC newsletter to union reps for the book about Robert Tressell on sale at Zed books. I have now emailed them to refer then to the suggestion in this article. I have asked them if they have a union agreement, and suggested that if they do not they should agree recruitment facilities for my union , USDAW. I fully agree with your idea and would love to see the power of union members as consumers used in this way. I will let you know of any reply and wish you well with this campaign.
Alun Williams