Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:56:11 -0500
Subject: Re: AUT: new trade union for IT workers


yes, I meant to reply to this a while back.  
Washtech (Washington Alliance of 
Technology Workers) was created in 1998, 
though I'm not sure how successful they've 
been.

check out their site at:
http://www.washtech.org/wt/

also, you might be interested in Netslaves, 
a site set up by disillusioned high-tech 
workers, whose "mission statement" is:

"Something's rotten in the Technology 
business. Never in the history of media has 
so much money been spent so wastefully 
by clueless corporations hoping to make a 
fast buck in this medium." - NetSlaves 
Mission Statement, 1998 

their analysis is typically off-target for the 
cyber-libertarian world of high-tech, but a 
start nonetheless.

http://www.netslaves.com/


e.




-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Bailey 
<redrich2000-AT-yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:12:09 +0000 
(GMT)
To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: AUT: new trade union for IT 
workers


> Don't think this is a world's first. A 
comrade in
> Sydney unionised Toshiba computer 
programmers. They
> refused to sign individual contracts, went 
on strike
> and won a collective agreement.
> 
>  --- Margaret <margaret-AT-rie.net.au> 
wrote: > From:
> creuss-AT-bluewin.ch (Christoph Reuss)
> > Subject: CH: World's First Trade-Union 
for the New
> > Economy
> > Sender: 
owner-futurework-AT-scribe.uwaterloo.ca
> > 
> > Zurich, Switzerland: The world's first 
trade union
> > for the New Economy
> > has been founded: "file://syndikat". It's a 
trade
> > union for freelancers and
> > employees in the IT sector -- web 
publishers,
> > consulting and advertising
> > professionals. For a start, there are 200 
members,
> > and the goal is to
> > have 10,000 members until 2003. 
(60,000 people work
> > in the Swiss IT sector.)
> > 
> > The new trade union has 
organizatational and
> > financial support from the
> > industry&construction trade union, and 
wants to
> > lobby for fair wages in
> > the IT sector.
> > 
> > Website: http://www.syndikat.ch (in 
German and
> > French)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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