Unite’s Working Students Campaign (Part I)

The Unite, the largest United Kingdom trade union, is campaigning directly to organise thousands of student workers across tertiary campuses in the UK. The Working Students Campaign (‘WSC’) is an innovative way of  organising a new generation of workers, and is something that should be implemented by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. The campaign basically involves allowing students to join Unite on-line for £10 per year, and organising students into campus societies who can campaign for respect, rights and better conditions in the workplace while using the collective resources of Unite.

Trade Union Membership Up in the USA

I recently found an interesting story through Labour Start, on Australia Day (26 January) the Center for Economic and Policy Research ran a story about union numbers increasing in 2007 in the United States.