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The following international labour-related web sites
and web pages may provide a useful resource to South
African trade unionists and labour activists. |
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ACTSA Scotland - Action for Southern
Africa: successor to the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement, working
to develop solidarity between Scotland and the states of the Southern
African Development Community. (UK)
AFL-CIO's Equal Pay Website -
It's Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay. (USA)
Amnesty International - working to protect
human rights worldwide.
Cafe Progressive - a one stop interactive
resource for the progressive Political and Educational Community.
CCPA:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - an independent, non-profit research
organisation, promoting research on economic and social policy issues from
a progressive point of view (Canada)
Cartoonwork - business and labour cartoons
by Carol Simpson (USA)
CEO: Corporate Europe Observatory -
a non-profit organisation monitoring and reporting on the political activities
of European corporations and their lobby group (Europe)
Corporate Watch -
committed to exposing corporate greed by documenting the social, political,
economic and environmental impacts of the transnationals, and by supporting
democratic control of corporations, human rights and environmental justice
Disgruntled -
an online magazine that combines news, feature, satire and commentary about
the darker side of the world of work. (USA)
Donald MacDonald's
Pages - Labour News and Links (UK)
EPI: The Economic Policy Institute -
a non-profit, non-partisan think tank aiming to provide high-quality research
and education, based on real world analysis and a concern for the living standards
of working people, in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable
economy. (USA)
Essential Information - founded
by Ralph Nader, encourages citizens' engagement in their communities, and provides
provocative information on important topics neglected by mass media and policy
makers (USA)
FOE: Friends of the Earth - the largest
international environmental network in the world with affiliates in 63 countries,
FOE is dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future
generations and to empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions
affecting their environment.
The Global Labour Summit
Greenpeace -
an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation
to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are
essential to a green and peaceful future
Hard Miles Music - Folk Music and
Labour Unions
ICTUR: International
Centre for Trade Union Rights - a campaigning non-profit organisation which
aims to: defend and extend the rights of trade unions and trade unionists worldwide;
collect information and increase awareness of trade union rights; provide information
about trade union rights and their violations throughout the world.
Industrial and Labor Relations
Review - journal of the School of Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell
University (USA)
ILO: International Labour Organisation -
the UN agency for the promotion of social justice and internationally recognised
human and labour rights (Global)
Jubilee 2000 Coalition -
a debt-free start for a billion people. Jubilee 2000 is an international movement
calling for cancellation of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries
by the year 2000 under a fair and transparent process (Global)
LaborNet - supports
human rights and economic justice for workers by providing labour news & information,
comprehensive Internet services, training & web site design for union and
labour organisations (USA)
LaborNet's Labor Quotes Page - a
compendium of quotes on labour subjects intended as a useful resource to those
preparing literature, publications, speeches and everything that has anything
to do with organising (USA)
The Labour Channel -
using "push" technology to broadcast labour news
Labour Media '97 - Labor Movement
and Media Conference: Workers, Information Technology and Solidarity (South
Korea)
LabourNet - Computer
Communications and News for the Labour Movement (UK)
Labour
News Network - News stories by trade union activists from around the globe
L A Labor News -
a left labour web site of news and features of labor activities, anti-neoliberalism
information and international solidarity (USA)
LRD: Labour Research Department -
an independent, trade union-based research organisation, providing a wealth
of detailed information for supporting negotiations and campaigns (UK)
LSI: Labour and Society International -
working together with the international trade union movement on education,
research, gender, global issues and building links, including with unions in
developing countries. (UK)
LabourStart - Where trade unionists
start their day on the net (UK)
LTC: Labour Telematics Centre -
supports and encourages trade unions and labour movement organisations in gaining
access to, and benefits from, computer-based electronic communications and
information technology (UK)
Labour
Webmasters' Forum a home on the web for trade unionists who edit, design
and write websites for the labour movement, a forum to discuss technical and
non-technical issues involved in trade union website design and maintenance
(UK)
Labour
Web Site of the Week - a weekly award to a labour web site of interest,
value and excellence
Labour's Online Bookstore -
a large selection of books (some substantially discounted) on the labour movement,
carefully chosen and often with brief reviews attached (UK)
MAI: Licence to Loot:
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and How to Stop it - a handbook
by Friends of the Earth
MAI:The Multilateral
Agreement on Investment - The Preamble Centre's page on Globalisation and
the MAI
May Day on the Web -
created in 1998 to celebrate May Day, the International Working Class Holiday
(USA)
News Search Engines -
search for the latest news stories on current events from hundreds of sources
on the web.
OneWorld - the
supersite of a community of over 200 leading global justice organisations,
focusing on social justice, human rights and sustainable development.
Organised
Labour in the 21st Century - an online conference run by the International
Institute for Labour Studies, of the ILO, in cooperation with the ICFTU, begining
in mid-September 1999.
Politically-oriented Net Sites -
links to sites of political interest around the world, divided into subject
areas that are country or issue specific.
PSIRU - Public Services International Research
Unit: a resource for research into, and monitoring of, the activities of multinational
companies involved in the privatisation of utilities worldwide. (UK)
Social Justice
E-Zine - an online and e-mail journal highlighting struggles of people
everywhere who work for gender equality, democratic government, economic opportunity,
intellectual freedom, environmental protection and human rights. (USA)
Statewatch: monitoring
the state and civil liberties in the European Union. The site contains news,
publications and a database of 24 000 + entries covering: policing and Europol,
security and intelligence agencies, the Schengen agreement, prisons, immigration
and asylum, racism and fascism, Northern Ireland, civil liberties, the law
and the European courts, the Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers
and third pillar issues in the European Union. (European Union)
Staying Alive: Labour
in the Global Information Economy
TUAC: Trade Union Advisory Committee an
international trade union organisation with consultative status, acting as
an interface for labour unions with the OECD and its various committees
Trade Union News ..... from Finland -
a regular labour news service, sponsored by SAK (the largest central trade
union in Finland) and compiled by journalist Juhani Artto (Finland)
UN: United Nations
UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV / AIDS
UnionFriendly - information and referral
site for union members and their families, with current union news, links,
boycott and strike information. (USA)
Union Ring -
a network of labour / union / worker related web sides around the world
Union Songs -
documenting the songs and poems that workers have made in the process of building
unions
Unions 21: Creating unions for the 21st
century - aims to provide an open space for discussion about how trade unions
can win and maintain public support for their priorities in a changing political
and economic environment (UK)
URCOT: Union Research
Centre on Organisation and Technology - undertakes work place research
which would assist union and management representatives involved in major projects
involving organisational and technological change (Australia)
VicNet's Labour and Trade
Union Page the labour page of a community network site in Victoria (Australia)
Workers' World News
Service - an online news service by the Workers World Party
Workplace Surveillance
Project - articles, interviews and resources compiled by the Privacy Foundation
on workplace surveillance from the perspectives of technology, law and business
ethics
World Economic Forum - publishes
The
Global Competitiveness Report, but describes itself as an "independent
and impartial international organization committed to improving the state of
the world... in the spirit of entrepreneurship".
WHO: World Health Organisation
WTO: World Trade Organisation
