UNISON stands in solidarity with eight trade unionists in Turkey charged with terrorism offences for carrying out their union duties
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Unite joins forces with Day-Mer in ‘long overdue’ campaign
A new campaign has been launched to eradicate pay and employment abuses of members of the Turkish and Kurdish communities in London during the pandemic. Unite the union has joined forces with…Read more…
Free Öcalan call
Kurdish MP Leyla Güven has now been on hunger strike for more than 120 days. Her body has begun to shut down; she can hardly speak. Alongside over 300 other hunger strikers, Leyla is standing…Read more…
Delegates discuss international concerns
Conference hears of treatment of the Palestinian people, plus the plight of LGBT workers in Colombia, Turkey and Jamaica
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‘Stand in solidarity’
Unite the union is deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the assassination of Abdullah Karacan, general president of Turkey’s DİSK/Lastik-İş (Rubber and Chemical Workers’ Union) and the attempt on…Read more…
UNISON demands justice for Abdullah Karacan
General secretary writes to Turkish ambassador over murder of trade union leader
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Free Ocalan
Yesterday (September 9) Tommy Murphy spoke at TUC for Unite seconding motion 75 on Turkey. “Comrades, the Turkish regime is at war with its own people,” said Murphy. It’s record of…Read more…
Blog: Time for the government to end their silence on Turkey
Although the UK government vocally condemned the attempted coup in Turkey for undermining democracy, they have remained almost silent on the subsequent state of emergency, mass detentions and…Read more…
‘Support forces for peace’ plea
Unite is outraged at the Turkish military attacks on the Kurdish population and security forces of Afrin, Syria – as yesterday (January 29) Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, told foreign…Read more…
Boris: Stop ignoring human rights in Turkey
Since the failed coup a year ago, Turkey has experienced an unprecedented erosion of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
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Solidarity with workers in Turkey
Last night I spoke at a hastily-convened but well-attended meeting at the NUT in solidarity with public sector workers, teachers and journalists currently suffering a state purge in Turkey. The…Read more…
Cyberunions Episode 91: Announcing the Punch a Nazi Challenge, Take that Ice Bucket!
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Update section Richard Spencer punch to the music of Born in the USA. Peoples Inauguration Friday night in Boston. Womens march Saturday in Boston over 175,000 people. Labor section ideas Framing the conditions. Davos — themes, new tech and rise of robots, globalization and retreat of globalization. Typically not […]Read more…
Cyberunions Episode 91: Announcing the Punch a Nazi Challenge, Take that Ice Bucket!
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* Richard Spencer punch to the music of Born in the USA.
* Peoples Inauguration Friday night in Boston.
* Womens march Saturday in Boston over 175,000 people.
Labor section ideas
* Framing the conditions.
* Davos — themes, new tech and rise of robots, globalization and retreat of globalization.
* Typically not supportive of right wing. They are realizing that the anti union perspective is bad for them.
* View of what to expect under trump.
* Refinery Town book review, about forming Progressive Alliance to win locally and building an alternative to the two parties.
Tech section
* Tech Solidaity meetings.
* Boston experience.
* ACLU: massachusetts membe Kade Crockford spoke and highlighted the importance of secure communication and informed peopel to use Signal. Emphasis on calling elected officials and getting them to hear us, we have a tendency to not take action. FBI can hack without a warrent and the concerns it puts forward. Tech for Liberty project.
* Local organizing to hold police accountable Seecops legislation. Lots of focus on local actions.
* National Domestic Workers Alliance: Spoke about the challenges the immigrant communities have faced and their need to begin to use better technology and communication but also shared knowing the fear many newly active people are seeing. Need to work on making sanctuary companies, in contracts and pushing company leaders. Need tech support with worker centers and working on expanding the security and privacy knowledge.
* MIRA (Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocates Coalition) spoke about the local push for supporting free legal assistance and municipal IDs for undocumented folks who cannot get state IDs.
* Labor Lawyer Spoke about the difficulty in organizing tech workers. Spoke about the ways in the US that companies use captive audience meetings to control thoughts on forming a union. But that now is the time to organize to protect our work but more importantly to protect the data that man…Read more…
Turkey’s purges continues
Turkish President Erdogan’s purges of anyone he sees as a threat continues at a pace.He has recently fired a further 10,131 public employees, bringing the total number of public sector…Read more…
Release them now
Unite strongly condemned Tuesday evening’s (October 25) detention of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir Ms Gültan Kışanak and Mr Fırat Anlı and the subsequent police attacks on civilians who were protesting…Read more…
Report of our last meeting in the Guardian
Umit Ozturk, speaking at the Craft Beer Co. Photo by Fred PipesReport by John…Read more…
Turkish democracy’s nightmare
The deficiencies in Turkey’s democracy cannot be remedied by armed force. The fact that the attempted coup by a section of Turkey’s armed forces failed is to be welcomed; what is not is the death of…Read more…
Erdogan loyalists attack the media in wake of failed coup
To denounce the deterioration of the situation is not enough. The international community must act…Read more…
As death returns to May Day protests, Turkey is sliding back into dictatorship
We – and colleagues in the Turkish trade union movement – have been writing about the struggles of the Turkish trade union movement on Stronger Unions for years. At one point, things were…Read more…
Turkish workers under further attacks
Sadly and as I have repeatedly reported on in my blogs, Turkish workers, their unions and wider civil society are under constant attack from their ever autocratic government. The latest example of…Read more…