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<< Why Labor Did Not Lose in Iowa | Main | Bush Savings Accounts- Theft from Future >> January 20, 2004SEIU Launches BlogHere is a fun and interesting addition to the blogosphere-- the first official union blog, called Blog for the Future from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-- with the first post authored by none other than its President, Andy Stern. Since I've done a bit of kibbutzing on the rollout of this endeavor, it's nice that Stern's writing in his own voice, rather than some institutional press release style. So check it out-- he basically compliments Kerry, gives kudos to Gephardt for a great career, while still holding strong for his guy Dean-- with a nice dig at Clark for bypassing Iowa-- "General this is not a war game, this is what democracy looks like." The blog will apparently have guest posters from around the union and its membership, so it should be a good window on labor issues and values from across the largest union in the AFL-CIO. Update: I stand corrected. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) launched their Union Blog a few months ago. Posted by Nathan at January 20, 2004 02:16 PM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsYo, lantzman! I bet your experience is in "kibbitz"-ing -- offering unwanted advice -- and not strictly in the application of Zionist collective economics -- that's ujammaa in faux Swahili -- to travails of labor organizing. Posted by: Lucye at January 20, 2004 04:48 PM Um, yeah-- oops :) Posted by: Nathan Newman at January 20, 2004 04:52 PM AFGE's blog (http://www.unionblog.com) was the first union blog by several months since it began on October 13, 2003. Posted by: AFGE at January 20, 2004 05:34 PM nope. http://www.youareworthmore.org was the first union-owned blog/community site. July 2002. Posted by: yawm at January 20, 2004 08:48 PM YaleInsider has been a union blog (admittedly a local union) since September 2002. Posted by: Antony Dugdale at January 20, 2004 09:50 PM I was definitely not counting local union blogs, since there are a few out there in various forms, but the YaleInsider work is worth highlighting. But with all respect-- SEIU International launching a blog is qualitative leap in unions plunging into Internet outreach. Posted by: Nathan at January 20, 2004 10:04 PM "But with all respect-- SEIU International launching a blog is qualitative leap in unions plunging into Internet outreach." Actually, the SEIU blog is very strange: it appears to be a national politics blog, rather than addressing union issues - Andy Stern's lame attempt (judging by the first entry) to come off as a political pundit - to speak with a homespun voice that, no less, yearns to be an authoritative voice, a club member whose criticisms are heard at the top level. Posted by: mucho maas at January 22, 2004 12:45 AM Mucho- The oddness is a bit of the product of campaign finance law-- this is the SEIU politics blog. Check out www.seiu.org for the general SEIU website on overall union issues. Posted by: Nathan at January 22, 2004 05:16 AM Whoops. Now he's "raging for unions" and against political pundits.
Posted by: mucho maas at January 23, 2004 01:27 AM The Teamsters have an unofficial blog at http://www.teamster.net Posted by: Doug at February 1, 2004 08:19 AM null Posted by: null at August 12, 2004 11:10 AM Post a comment
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