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Featuring, Candi Peterson – WTU General V.P.
I started out my union career as a Washington Teachers’ Union building representative for itinerant teachers and related service providers. Years ago, a soon to be departing colleague urged me to take on this role because she was planning to retire. She argued after all that I would be good in this job because of my outspokenness. I remember thinking how could I reach the almost 200 or so union members who were spread out in our schools. Building ties to people, came easy for me in part due to my background in the field of social work. I reasoned to myself that a great deal of my career had been spent working with those who didn’t want to be reached. Surely, I thought I’d be up for the challenge connecting to union members.
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Charles Lechner, founder of Organizing 2.0 attended the recent LaborTech conference held at the University of San Francisco. Check out Charles’s online organizing site for exciting programs and information.
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Welcome to the new cms-wordpress website for Labortech. This new site will allow blog posts from registered users and greater interactivity. The site is still in the process of being modified and amended. New ideas and methods of exchange will be routine.
LaborTech 2010 was an astonishing success with news breaking presentations by Stephen Lech of USW Local 7-669 on the plight of nuclear materials workers at the Honeywell processing plant in Metropolis Illinois; a daring presentation by Kevin Bracken of Australia MUA Secretary Victoria Branch/Victorian Trades Council Hall President speaking on “Corporate Media, The Trade Unions, War And 9/11″. Kevin has questioned the official US Government story of the events of September 11, 2001 and joined the ranks of over 70% of his countrymen in calling for a new investigation. Labortech also hosted a vital live streaming event of the serious struggle of Coca Cola workers in Colombia. Being a labor activist in Colombia is a life or death struggle. Labortech supports the efforts of courageous workers in Colombia to achieve safe and fair working conditions.There’s more inside.
Join us as we embark on an exciting campaign to bring voice to labor all over the globe with new online technologies and strategies.
- John Parulis, LaborTech webmaster
