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Union & Union Related Resources

Link to web site followed by brief "about" snippet culled from the resource's website.

• Labor Union Resources

About Labor Union Resources -- "Labor unions have benefited greatly from the communications capabilities provided by the Internet: thousands of sites overflow with a wealth of information regarding news, issues and policies of labor unions both regional and global. I've collected some of these resources here, to serve as a starting point for those doing research on labor unions, looking for a specific group, or simply wanting to learn more about the state of unions today."

• UCubed | Union of Unemployed

Useful. Unique. Unified. -- "You lost your job. You're not alone. 31 million Americans face the same challenges. You want your job back. You want your life back. But you can't do it alone. Neither can anyone else. You all need each other. That's what UCubed is here to do: Help you and 31 million other unemployed Americans organize, work together and get back to work. Let UCubed help you connect. Form a cube, and multiply your political and economic power by 6. Then by 36. Eventually, by 31 million. Take Control."

UCubed is a "community service project" of the International Association of Machinists (IAMAW), a union "active in more than 200 industries."

Portent Interactive ("An internet marketing company.") is UCubed's web site provider.

Labor News Sites

• LaborNet

"Global online communication since 1991 for a democratic, independent labor movement"

Organizing Resources

• The Five Basic Steps To Organizing a Union

"Although every workplace is different and the needs of workers vary, there are some basic steps involved in winning a union voice on the job. Here's how it happens ..."

• It's Your Right To Organize a Union!

"The National Labor Relations Act gives you the right to organize a union in your workplace. Here's what you are allowed to do ... and what your employer is not allowed to do ..."

• How To Organize A Labor Union At Your Workplace

"This article explains the basic steps of how to organize a labor union in your workplace."

Technology Service Providers

• MayFirst

(Associated with October2011.org.)

• Prometheus
• Union Web Services
• Unions-America.com "America's Union Internet Service Provider" | UnionActive "The Ultimate Website Management and Communications System for Unions"

From the UnionActive website:

UnionActive Newswire: When your site becomes part of the UnionActive system the content you post to your home page will also be included in the UnionActive Newswire. The UnionActive Newswire is displayed on thousands of websites and includes the most recent content from all sites in the system. This gives your content and your website instant exposure to hundreds of thousands of viewers. It also vastly improves your sites search engine rankings as you are now connected to thousands of other websites.

Unions-America.com / UnionActive are associated with Oregon AFSCME Council 75.

• Trilogy Interactive LLC. "Trilogy stands with labor."

Trilogy Interactive LLC. is associated with American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME ), AFL–CIO

Book Shelf

• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? | Martin Luther King, Jr.

Related Links:

- Guaranteed Income - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Plan to Eliminate Poverty Revisited | Gwenneth Morgan

- Guaranteed minimum income | (Wikipedia)

- Poor People's Campaign | (Wikipedia)

- The Basic Income Earth Network

- Dr. Martin Luther King's Economics: Through Jobs, Freedom | Mark Engler

• The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies | Ivan Illich

Related Links:

- List of book recommendations from WhyWork.org, a "pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work?."

- COMMENT–The Right to Useful Unemployment | David Parkinson, Immanence Magazine From review: "The prevailing mindset of local economic leaders is to ... take on heavy debt to pull off gambles on the global economy’s continued growth, supporting the consumerist lifestyle that enables people to retire wealthy, travel, and shop as far as the eye can see.... Meanwhile, a mass movement, however disorganized and provisional, is gathering speed, to opt out of this worldview and instead focus on essentials: food, shelter, transportation, holistic health, and more. When the economy destroys jobs and wealth as measured in money, people will inevitably shift allegiance to the real foundations of wealth.... (Illich’s) life’s work argued for a convivial culture, one in which people’s right to create their own culture, tools, language, and social systems is paramount."

Domain Ideas

• OrganizedPower.org
• OrganizedUnions.com
• OrganizedTrades.org
• OrganizedLabor.net
• UnionWiki.org

Code Ideas

New Breed Wiki Platforms Under Development

• Smallest Federated Wiki

Ward Cunningham says his Smallest Federated Wiki project wants to be small in the “easy to learn powerful ideas” version of small. It wants to be a wiki so that strangers can meet and create works of value together. And it wants to be federated so that the burden of maintaining long-lasting content is shared among those who care.

• LocalWiki
  • LocalWiki Code Planning

LocalWiki is a project to create a new form of local media that makes it easy for people to learn--and share their own unique knowledge--about their local community. Davis Wiki co-founders Philip Neustrom and Mike Ivanov began working on this project after receiving a grant from the Knight Foundation.

A Lightweight CMS Using .htaccess

Still need a quick 'n' dirty splash page for the main domain. Rather than installing a full Drupal instance, this might work:

• Build A Lightweight CMS Using .htaccess (Blog entry explaining the process.)
• Welcome to my Apache Demonstration (The demo / download page.)

This web site is generated entirely using .htaccess, simple CSS and XHTML, and local file system navigation. We wrote it to test the feasibility of powering a content management system entirely in Apache.

HTML / Wiki Markup to PDF

• Prince - A great way of getting web content onto paper. (License fee imposed.)

Prince is software for converting XML and HTML documents to PDF files.

• DocRaptor - The best way to convert your code into XLS and PDF. (Monthly pricing plans.)