Unions and union members rightly lobby their local representatives and government Ministers all the time. Not only are unions the largest, oldest social movement on earth, but in Australia they make up the country’s largest voluntary representative associations.
While imagining political lobbying may evoke suited professionals, big business and slick CEOs, it is perfectly legitimate for [...]
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What union members want from their union’s communications
In my line of work, I hear a lot of opinion expressed as fact. A common one is that “union members don’t want our communications to look too corporate”, or “our members want a lot of detail, not a short summary”, or “our slogan should be ’screw the boss’ or something like that”. You get [...]
Why I’m not blacking out on Australia Day
The legion of No Clean Feed activists have developed several campaign sites, one of which is The Great Australian Internet Blackout. Their call to action (in addition to writing to the Government and adding a twibbon to your Twitter profile picture) is to blackout (darken) your website on Australia Day.
Their reasons for doing this are:
The [...]
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