Archive for the ‘Labour issues’ Category
Sunday, October 15th, 2006
It has been some time since I've made a political speech, and somehow I'd missed the challenge. Academic presentations are such a different environment, where even as you are working to persuade your audience of your argument, you must feign objectivity, neutrality. It's possible to work towards a climax, to ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
News from Ireland of workers being locked out because of their desire to join a union - despite the fact that this is forbidden by the unfair dismissals act:Labour Enterprise spokesperson Ruairi Quinn has lent his support to a rally to take place tomorrow Friday, 6pm, in support of eight ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Irish Labour Party President Michael D. Higgins is introducing a bill to establish the rights of freelance workers to be represented by a trade union in collective bargaining. According to Michael D.:The introduction of this Bill would be the most effective way of redressing the curtailment of ...
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
Disturbing news on the AFL-CIO blog about recent developments at NPR:Sister Barbara Krieger writes that NPR (National Public Radio) has shut down negotiations with its technical employees, represented by NABET-CWA Local 52031, and has implemented workplace changes without bargaining with the union despite an arbitrator's ruling to cease and desist.
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Those outside of Ireland may not have caught wind of the current dispute at Irish Ferries, but for those paying attention, the manner in which this single dispute has catalysed much of the tension in industrial tensions, while exemplifying many of the absurdities of globalization and the neo-liberal market-focused policies ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
I attended a conference in Chicago last year run by COCAL, the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor - the increasing reliance on contingent faculty (that is, those without tenure) is worrying in itself, particularly for those of us planning to work in academia, but is also part of the corporatization ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
as you'd expect...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Sarah, over at Hop, Skip, Jump, has posted another piece about her latest project:This memorial is silent and, aside from my figure squatting with a case in the dust, invisible. I have two minutes of silence in which to think - think about what I am doing, think about ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
I've spent most of the past week or two travelling and entertaining visitors, so I've fallen a little behind in posting various items that I would generally try to cover on this blog, so it's time for a bumper compendium:The website for Radio Research Ireland, a new network of individuals ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Not much fun for the American workers concerned, but beautifully symbolic - the Voice of America is outsourcing overnight news operations to Hong Kong.
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