The following article, published in the most recent issue of Labour Research magazine, was out of date before it ever saw print. Working together with the union and the global union federations, we were able…
Dear Sir: I was pleased to see that you vigorously condemned last week’s terrorist attacks by jihadists in Bangladesh. As I’m sure you know, today — less than a week after Israel’s withdrawal from the…
Business Week recently devoted an entire special double issue to India and China, and surprisingly (for Business Week) had a relatively sympathetic account of the problems faced by workers in the latter country. Quoting from…
Jakob Nielsen is a name that will be familiar to those of you who design web pages. Nielsen is the world’s leading expert on website usability. Thanks to his efforts, a lot of websites are…
Unions that want to recruit new members will make it as easy as possible to join. In this century, that means allowing people to join unions online.
It is late afternoon in North London. Behind my house, maybe 50 meters away, is the North Circular Road. Here, in this part of London, it’s a six-lane highway. We tell people that we can…
Under British law, political parties are obligated to inform us of the names of their major donors. A visit to the website of the Electoral Commission reveals that nearly half of the money donated to…
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Dear Sir: Last week, following the attacks in London, you wrote: “No one can condone acts of violence aimed at working people going about their daily lives. They have not been a party to, nor…
Ed McBain has died of cancer at the age of 78. I discovered his books relatively late in life, nearly 20 years ago. And then I read through them one by one, all the books…