Re: AUT: new trade union for IT workers

[Richard Bailey <redrich2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't think this is a world's first. A comrade in
Sydney unionised Toshiba computer programmers. They
refused to sign individual contracts, went on strike
and won a collective agreement.

 --- Margaret <margaret@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From:
creuss@xxxxxxxxxx (Christoph Reuss)
> Subject: CH: World's First Trade-Union for the New
> Economy
> Sender: owner-futurework@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Zurich, Switzerland: The world's first trade union
> for the New Economy
> has been founded: "file://syndikat". It's a trade
> union for freelancers and
> employees in the IT sector -- web publishers,
> consulting and advertising
> professionals. For a start, there are 200 members,
> and the goal is to
> have 10,000 members until 2003. (60,000 people work
> in the Swiss IT sector.)
>
> The new trade union has organizatational and
> financial support from the
> industry&construction trade union, and wants to
> lobby for fair wages in
> the IT sector.
>
> Website: http://www.syndikat.ch (in German and
> French)
>
>
>
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