Back in 2003-04, David Peetz and Barbara Pocock (from Griffith University and the University of Adelaide) conducted a survey of 2500 union delegates to examine the power of workers in their workplace. You can download the paper here (pdf).
The paper on the report is definitely worth reading and at 11 pages (many of which are [...]
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Delegates key to union power
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 [...]
Using Google Docs in your union campaign
Google Documents is a free online service that provides word processing and spreadsheets that are stored online (in the “cloud”).
Google Docs basically allows you to mimic Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The main feature (in my view) is that it is online, so it can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet, and [...]
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