Change at the coalface in China
China faces unprecedented challenges as it industrialises, leading to the largest rural-urban migration in the history of the world. One aspect of this dramatic shift has been the battle to lift energy...
View ArticleBest labour book 2009. It’s…………
We have a winner in our Best Labor Book of 2009 poll. By a huge majority it’s “Unhealthy Work: Causes, Consequences, Cures“, edited by Peter L. Schnall, Marnie Dobson, and Ellen Rosskam. Why did this...
View ArticleTurning psychosocial
There is a growing realisation in the health and safety industry that the game has changed. It used to be about back strain and blood-on-the-factory-floor. Today, we need to be looking for empty boxes...
View ArticleFair Work / Union Made – a new global standard?
This article proposes the creation of a new international sustainability standard certifying that wages and working conditions are set through ongoing processes of good faith collective bargaining....
View ArticlesafeSpace – anonymous email and meeting rooms
Bestu oskir from Iceland — the Switzerland of data! That’s where you’ll find safeSpace, an anonymized communication tool created by volunteers from the New Unionism Network. It’s an online facility...
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