Writing web pages for workers
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…
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…
I have added my name to this statement. I encourage all readers of this blog to do so as well.
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…
Thanks to all of you who wrote in asking if we were alright. I don’t want to add my own voice just yet to the many who have already written about this, but let me…
When LabourStart began back in 1998, news was one of its three main features (the others were a directory of union websites and links to online campaigns run by unions). One of the three columns…
Last Friday, the British daily newspaper The Independent ran a column by Johann Hari which while it opposed the AUT boycott of Israel did call for “smart sanctions” instead. My letter in response to Hari…