A Fast-Growing, New Labor Union For People WITHOUT Jobs!

[Joanne98]

Labor educator Harry Kelber has a great post running on Alternet right now, entitled: "The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It's Catching on Quickly." It's all about a new union for the unemployed that's been established over the past few weeks by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). They're calling it the "UR Union of the Unemployed," and it's nicknamed: "UCubed."

IAM's "...leaders feel that the millions of unemployed workers need a union of their own to join in the struggle for massive jobs programs."


bobswern's diary :: ::
The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It's Catching on Quickly
Alternet.org
By Harry Kelber
February 24, 2010

...The idea is that if millions of jobless join together and act as an organization, they are more likely to get Congress and the White House to provide the jobs that are urgently needed. They can also apply pressure for health insurance coverage, unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits and food stamps. An unemployed worker is virtually helpless if he or she has to act alone.

Continued>>>>
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/26/841211/-A-Fast-Growing,-New-Labor-Union-For-People-WITHOUT-Jobs!

http://www.unionofunemployed.com/

[Royal Sloan 09]

1. K & R,

Unemployed and Under-employed please, Join or Create your own Cube!

[rhett o rick]

2. k & r

[patrice]

3. K & R for UCubed Solidarity!

[bread_and_roses]

4. K & R here - n/t

[snot]

5. K&R'd

[Hubert Flottz]

6. K&R

A good idea!

[dysfunctional press]

7. video now up from the first ucubed union meeting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzivCJ9pzU&feature=related

[druidity33]

8. don't be a dick...

this is serious.

:)