UNI Communicators' Forum

Any questions/comments about other aspects of union communications, or about the  Communicators' forum itself?

SEIU Local 615, representing 5,000 workers in Higher Education in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is soon to enter contract negotiations for over 500 service personnel at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT).  There is a deep endowment crisis at MIT as there is at Harvard and other ivy league schools due to investments in toxic assets similar to the crisis in US Banks.  These negotiations have broad implications for how wages and benefits will be realligned across institutions in Massachusetts. 

Union Newswire is a new site from the TUC. It's very much in betai (meaning it's likely to fall over at a moment's notice), but could be an interesting model for other union groups to look at.

Just playing with iMovie software and boat and minibus videos from Cyprus. Watch it at You Tube (if you want it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rURb7VCC60U

Comfia TV has made a video report of "Gay Pride Parade" in Madrid last saturday. More than 1 million people there for diversity and equality. Lots of people from abroad (there're interviews with an italian guy, a girl form Chile and from Brazil, and more...)

It's in Spanish though

http://www.comfia.tv/programa/56.html

Come photo blogi with us online here!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1111727@N20/

See our iPhone Fuzzyshot PhotoBlog:

http://fuzzyshot.com/uniglobalunion

Please find Forum agenda & participants' list attached.

Click here for Speakers' presentations:
http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/iportal.nsf/pages/20090211_6ljyEn