Broadband internet opens new possibilities for unions
More than three million homes and businesses in the UK now have broadband access to the Internet, with 40,000 new connections being made every week. By the end of 2005, it should be possible to…
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Sometimes you don’t need a library
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
Sometimes you don’t need a library
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
Sometimes you don’t need a library
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
Sometimes you don’t need a library
The sharing of information is fundamental to what we do in the trade union movement
The difference a decade makes
I have been thinking about the changes that have taken place in the world in the last decade or so, and in particular the effect of the Internet. And I’ve been thinking about Iraq. Let…
US occupation forces raid Iraqi union headquarters
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Searching for ‘labour’
What happens when you search for the word ‘labour’ on the world’s leading search engines? The results are as you’d expect from Google and all the rest — with one amazing exception.
Britain needs a Powells
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…
What to do when email campaigns no longer work
For more than a decade now, trade unions and others have used email as a powerful tool for online campaigning. Despite some notable successes, it is now becoming clearer by the day that this tool…