LaborNet
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LaborNet is a San Francisco-based "democratic communications" network for the labour movement.
History
The LaborNet network was created by union organizers in 1991 to give a new boost to the labor movement.[1] LaborNet was organized around industrial lines, allowing workers from different unions to communicate with each others.[2]
By the end of the 1990s, LaborNet had 1,400 members.[2]
In 2001, LaborNet was established in Japan, where it held annual awareness events such as the Labor Fiesta and Union, Yes!.[1]
Description
According to LaborNet's website, its "founders believe that the new communication technology must be put to use to revitalize and rebuild the labor movement. To that end we established the first regular Labor News web page in the United States." [1]
Currently, the initiative has been expanded, with "LaborNets" being also set up in other places like Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Japan and Korea. LaborNet says it also works to defend the internet from censorship and the privatization of information "that would limit and destroy our rights to communicate and build world unionism."
References
- ^ a b Paul Jobin (2009). ""Labornet Japan" and the Revival of Trade Unions through the Net". Cairn Info. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ a b Jesse Drew (2013). A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media. Routledge. ISBN 9781135117559.
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