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Other labor websites and publications

Websites

• BigLabor. A project of Union Communication Services Inc., "publishing and distributing education, training and communication materials for unions across North America since 1980." http://www.biglabor.com/index.html
• Catholic Worker. "produced and sponsored by an admirer of the Catholic Worker movement" http://www.catholicworker.com/
• The Comite' Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFO-Border Committee of Workers). "a worker-controlled organization that educates, organizes and empowers other maquiladora workers along the Mexican border with the United States , we organize for the defense of basic human and workers' rights, union democracy, and the protection of the health, life and welfare of each of us and our communities." (Spanish and English) http://www.cfomaquiladoras.org
• Community Labor News, (CLNews) "continues the tradition of workers' organizing and taking actions to create a better future.... CLNews provides a space for us to voice our views and to explore a world of opinions." www.clnews.org
• Cyber Picket Line.   A "world directory" of trade unions and labor activism. http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/union/links.htm
• Cyber Solidarity. "Dedicated to organizations and individuals who support human rights and economic justice for workers. Together, our efforts can and will affect long-term fundamental social change." http://cybersolidarity.com/index.html
• CyberUnions.net. "Where Labor and the Web come together." http://www.cyberunions.net/
• "How to Unionize!" A site with information on the process of forming a union. http://incolor.inebraska.com/uswa286/howtounionize.html
• Information for workers. "some things the boss would probably rather you did not know;" this section of the UE (United Electrical Workers) webpage has great material on workers' rights, grievances, and more.  http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/stwd_idx.html
• Internal UAW Appeals -- a practice manual for members. http://ellisboal.com/uaw-appeals17.html
• Internet Labor Resources. (Institute of Industrial Relations Library, UC, Berkeley); annotated list of labor links. www.lib.berkeley.edu/IIRL/iirlnet.html
• KC Labor: An Internet Port-of-Entry for Working People. With resources and links to unions, legal rights information and more… "Dedicated to the Working Class..." www.kclabor.org/index.html
• Labor Commons. "an online community where workers, union staff, labor academics, reformers and activists can interact with a wider range of people from areas traditionally outside labor discussions: environmentalism, arts, philanthropy, technology, etc." http://www.laborcommons.org
• Labour Talk. A Canadian forum for discussion and support. http://www.labourtalk.org/
• Labour Union Digest. "A U.K.-based site for labor news, offers links to many useful resources relating to labour/workplace law, health and safety, freedom of information, etc." http://www.labouruniondigest.org.uk/
• Labor Unions Online Forums. "a place for rank and file union employees from around the country and in a variety of jobs to gather and learn from a lively exchange of information and advice." http://www.laborunionsonline.com/
• LaborWire USA/LaborWire Canada. (and several other news and opinion websites run by Marc Brazeau) http://www.joehilldispatch.org/
• Labornet.  (IGC) Links to unions and labor-related sites and organizations. www.labornet.org
• LabourStart. "Where trade unionists start their day on the net." (Now multilingual.) www.labourstart.org
• Living Wage Resource Center. ACORN's website offers a brief history of the national living wage movement, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites. www.livingwagecampaign.org
• Rank and File AFL CIO. "America's Union Reform Movement." Harry Kelber is online with a website: http://www.rankandfileaflcio.org/, a blog: http://reform-aflcio.blogspot.com/ and a reform forum: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowBoard&Board=ranknfile, not to mention the Labor Educator site which features his many publications http://www.laboreducator.org/mainmenu.htm
• Retail Worker. News and information for retail employees. http://www.retailworker.com/
• Sisters in the Building Trades. "to expand a network of active women that will affirm building trades sisters as a positive and growing part of the construction workforce..." http://www.sistersinthebuildingtrades.org
• Teachers Unite. "supports New York City public school teachers fighting for social justice." http://www.teachersunite.net/
• Union Communication Services, Inc. "Steward advice, labor news, graphics and books that help progressive union leaders rally their members and build their unions." www.unionist.com
• Union Resource Network.  Links to union websites, searchable by location or keyword. www.unions.org
• Unionism.   www.unionism.com/
• United Students Against Sweatshops. "an organization of students and community members at over 200 campuses. We are part of a movement that supports the struggles of working people and challenges corporate power. We work to build power on campuses, we develop solidarity with workers." http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/
• U.S./ Labor Education in the Americas Project
  US/LEAP is an independent non-profit organization that supports economic justice and basic rights for workers in Central America, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Mexico. http://www.usleap.org/
  
• The WorkSite.org. Two "online communities" for labor activists. "Tools You Can Use"...for activists who want to share practical experience and not have to reinvent the wheel. "Resources & Strategy" provides articles, links, controversial debates, and other resources." You have to apply to join. http://www.theworksite.org/
  

Magazines, Newsletters, Journals

• The Chief-Leader. "a New York City-based weekly civil service newspaper that focuses on municipal government and its labor unions while also covering issues affecting New York State and Federal employees." http://www.thechief-leader.com/
• Hard Hat Construction Magazine http://www.laborers.org/Hardhat.html   
• Labor Notes. News, education and resources to help you put the movement back in the labor movement. www.labornotes.org
• Mexican Labor News and Analysis. Monthly publication of Dan La Botz and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), covers struggle for union democracy and reform in Mexico and cross-border solidarity. http://www.ueinternational.org/
• New Labor Forum. "A place for labor and its allies to test new ideas and debate old ones." http://qcpages.qc.edu/newlaborforum/index.html
• NY Hardhat News www.sweatmag.org/HardHat.htm
• Sweat Labor Magazine www.sweatmag.org
• Working Stiff Journal http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/wsj.htm
• Articles about the Carpenters Union. By a student labor activist. http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mpesa/labor/ubc.html

Radio/TV/Video

• Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report www.buildingbridgesradio.org 
• Labor Beat. "An independent rank-and-file labor forum; producers of labor television and radio; advocates for labor media."  http://www.laborbeat.org/lb/index.html
• Radio Labour Start. Music, international labor news and more. http://radio.labourstart.org/
• Merrimack Films.  Founded in 1983 to produce and distribute films and videos on labor relations. Among the videos available are films on union democracy, the crisis in US unions, and municipal union bargaining. www.merrimack-films.com/index.html
• Voices at Work. "a weekly independant radio program by workers and for workers. It is an hour of labor news, music and interviews with prominent activists, historians, leaders, and educators." http://www.voicesatwork.net/
• Workers Independent News Service. "puts the voice of working families on the air. With your support we'll build a strong labor radio news network." www.laborradio.org/

See also their raw audio service: http://www.laborradio.org/raw_audio_service.htm

Education Links

• A.J. Muste Memorial Institute. "publishes pamphlets and books on nonviolence, provides grants and sponsorships to grassroots groups throughout the U.S. and the world, and provides office space to social justice organizations." http://ajmuste.org/
• ALFORJA   This is the homepage for a network of Central American popular education centers. Publications available include the two volume Tecnicas Participativas Para la Educacion Popular which contain a wealth of participatory activities presented in a way that models popular education, and offer a convincing argument that popular education is about method and politics, not simply activities and techniques. www.alforja.org (in Spanish)
• Catalyst Centre "celebrates and promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change." www.catalystcentre.ca
• Center for Popular Economics , provides information, research, and economics education for workers, activists, and union members.   http://www.populareconomics.org/
• Labor Notes   The name of a publication and a networking center for workers and union activists confronting team concept, speed-up, sexual harassment, downsizing, concessions and other management evils. They hold periodic Democracy Schools and Team Concept Schools and a biannual conference that brings together the leading rank and file activists from across the US and internationally to share strategies, tactics, and to discuss the big picture of union reform today. www.labornotes.org
• The Popular Education News. "Connecting popular and community-based educators and activists to resources for improving educational work in social movements against oppression and for democracy, sustainability, social justice, and peace and building an information database about popular education resources..." http://www.popednews.org/
• Project South, Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, conducts popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation. They also publish a great resource guide on "popular education for movement building."  http://www.projectsouth.org/
• TRF The Teamster Rank and File Legal Defense and Research Fund provides education and materials for working Teamsters. TRF provides workshops for Teamster members, and has developed cutting-edge educational work and materials based on the experience of the Teamster reform movement, and its leading force, Teamsters for a Democratic Union. Contact TDU for more information www.tdu.org

Links for Web Designers.

• Communicate or Die - American Labor Unions and the Internet. "Our mission is to build a network of passionate individuals who are serious about discussing and developing solutions that allow unions to realize the full potential of Internet technology." http://www.communicateordie.com/
• Eric Lee. "Web design and Internet consulting for the trade union movement." http://www.ericlee.me.uk/
• E-Trade Unions. "The aim of this site is to provide a web-based Help-desk that will help webworkers on the staff of trade unions world-wide share their knowledge." A great resource -- in four languages -- for the union web designer, rank-and-file or official. www.e-tradeunions.org/home.php
• An Introduction to Activism on the Internet. "an overview and analysis of campaigning methods [and] electronic advocacy using email, the Web, and other "new media" to bring about social change." http://backspace.com/action/all.php
• "Legal Perils and Legal Rights of Internet Speakers, an outline with citations" www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/IntFreeSpch/articles.cfm?ID=6141
• Webmasters exchange. "Exchange news, ideas and stories. Do you administer a Website with a slant on reform and democratization? Help build the biggest peer-to-peer, independent activist network on the web!" www.ufcw.net

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