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AFL-CIO and National Labor College Launches Online Degree Program
Submitted by Steve Dondley on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 7:47amBig news hit the New York Times yesterday that the AFL-CIO and the National Labor College were joining together to launch the "first and only accredited degree-granting online institution devote exclusively to educating union members."
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AFL-CIO Offers Virtual Unemployment Lifeline to American Workers
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:45pmRecently the AFL-CIO launched a new site called Unemployment Lifeline that uses modern social media to provide a place for laid-off American workers to get some help and to connect - often for the first time - to the labor movement.
The surprisingly colorful and attractive site (sorry, but as someone involved in building labor websites, I notice that many union leaders ask for, shall we say, plain design concepts) offers a variety of ways for people to get involved with actions for national health reform and against giveaways to big business. It also provides forums where unemployed folks can talk with each other and compare notes, a calendar of relevant events nationwide, and a resource page where people can turn for human services and legal advice.
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Teamsters Employ Ustream.tv to Broadcast Hearing About Injustices at Federal Express
Submitted by Steve Dondley on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 4:30pmLast year, I wrote about ustream.tv, a service that allows you to broadcast webcast yourself live on the Internet for free. It appears unions are latching on to the technology. In just a couple of hours, the Teamsters International union will be placing a live feed for a hearing about the problems workers at Federal Express are facing. Watch it here, today, December 16, at 6pm EST.
Update: The hearing is over.
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Dapper Helps Create RSS Feeds for Sites That Don't Have Them
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 8:30pmSometimes you just can't get a good RSS feed when you need one.
For those of you who missed the memo, RSS stands for (among other things) "Really Simple Syndication" - and is a "microformat" (a little snippet of code) that takes the basic information from posts to a website and and presents it in a way that allows other people on the web to easily monitor new posts to the site as they appear.
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Union printed T-shirts and promotional items
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 1:56pmWe can print t shirts for your local for as low as .30 a print !!!
Tshirts are a great affordable way to promote your strike, nothing gets the word out quicker than a tshirt

Custom Union printed
American Made
T-shirts &
promotional items
for your business or local
1-800-569-1599
| Printing cost | |||||||||||||
| $ 15.00 | screens 1st time for each color | ||||||||||||
| T-shirts & Flat Goods cost per print | $ 10.00 | reset cost on repeat orders, no screen charge | |||||||||||
| $ 10.00 | proof sample shirt before actual run | ||||||||||||
| 1/C | 2/C | 3/C | 4/C | 5/C | 6/C | $ 2.00 | drop ship / pr box | ||||||
| 12-35 | $ 2.00 | $ 2.50 | $ 3.00 | $ 3.50 | $ 4.00 | $ 4.50 | $ 10.00 | color match | |||||
| 36-71 | $ 1.05 | $ 1.25 | $ 1.50 | $ 1.75 | $ 2.05 | $ 2.25 | |||||||
| 72-143 | $ 0.75 | $ 0.95 | $ 1.15 | $ 1.35 | $ 1.50 | $ 1.70 | |||||||
| 144-287 | $ 0.55 | $ 0.80 | $ 1.00 | $ 1.20 | $ 1.35 | $ 1.50 | add per print | ||||||
| 288-999 | $ 0.50 | $ 0.70 | $ 0.85 | $ 1.00 | $ 1.15 | $ 1.30 | $ 0.20 | finished caps | |||||
| 1000-2499 | $ 0.40 | $ 0.60 | $ 0.75 | $ 0.90 | $ 1.05 | $ 1.20 | $ 0.20 | flashing | |||||
| 2500+ | $ 0.30 | $ 0.40 | $ 0.50 | $ 0.60 | $ 0.70 | $ 0.80 | $ 0.10 | puff neon white ink | |||||
| $ 0.15 | metalic glitter | ||||||||||||
| $ 0.20 | above or on pocket | ||||||||||||
| Jackets, Nylon Goods & Bags | $ 0.20 | sleeve print | |||||||||||
| $ 0.25 | sweatshirts / shorts | ||||||||||||
| 1/C | 2/C | 3/C | 4/C | 5/C | 6/C | $ 0.50 | sweatpants | ||||||
| 1-12 | $ 3.00 | $ 4.00 | $ 4.75 | $ 5.50 | $ 6.00 | $ 6.50 | $ 0.20 | towels | |||||
| 24-35 | $ 2.00 | $ 2.75 | $ 3.50 | $ 4.25 | $ 5.00 | $ 5.50 | |||||||
| 36-71 | $ 1.50 | $ 2.50 | $ 3.25 | $ 3.85 | $ 4.25 | $ 4.40 | |||||||
| 72-143 | $ 1.25 | $ 2.10 | $ 2.80 | $ 3.40 | $ 3.90 | $ 4.20 | |||||||
| 144-287 | $ 1.00 | $ 1.75 | $ 2.25 | $ 2.65 | $ 2.95 | $ 3.25 | |||||||
| 288-499 | $ 0.90 | $ 1.50 | $ 1.95 | $ 2.30 | $ 2.50 | $ 2.80 | |||||||
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Screen Captures Are a Snap With Jing
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Anybody using Organic Groups?
Submitted by Matt Noyes on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 10:25pmI'm looking for info, thoughts on using the Organic Groups modules in Drupal -- has anyone used them? Or decided not to for specific reasons?
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Internet Protocol TV Worth a Look
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 10:54pmOver the last few years, as fast internet connections have become the standard for more and more Americans, software has been developed by a number of companies and at least one defunct non-profit project to allow live video streaming (generally from broadcast satellite feeds) to people's computers for no additional money down.
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Too Many Passwords? Try OpenID.
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 10:09pmAs time moves on, and we all sign up for more and more web services, inevitably we're going to forget the various usernames and passwords we're forced to use to keep our personal information at least moderately protected from the possibility of identity theft or worse.
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Social Networking with Communicate or Die
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 1:00pmTo ensure a vibrant web presence and to make your site more visible to younger viewers, it's important to establish outposts on the major social networking sites.
The 900-pound gorillas of the social networking market are currently Facebook and MySpace. Each have their strengths and weaknesses, but each provide your organization with a free page and the ability to pipe in feeds from your existing website every time you post something new.
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CWA Report Decries Internet Speed Gap Between U.S., Other Nations
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 4:17pmFor the second year in a row, the Communication Workers of America's "Speed Matters" campaign has released "A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States." The campaign surveyed almost 230,000 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico between May 2007 and May 2008 on their speedmatters.org website to gather the necessary data.
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Information Will Be Free ... on Wikileaks
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 11:22amby Steve Dondley and Jason Pramas
Quite the brouhaha this week between the AFL-CIO and arch-union buster Richard Berman.
It seems the AFL posted a blog entry in the "anti-union network" section of their American Rights at Work site that included newly-public documents from an ongoing lawsuit by Smithfield Foods against the United Food and Commercial workers. The documents detailed Berman's relationship to Smithfield.
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Free Live Internet Broadcasting from Ustream
Submitted by Jason Pramas on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 4:25pmHave you ever wanted to have your own TV channel? Or at least wanted the ability to broadcast your own programming live to many people at once?
If so, the future is here now thanks to live interactive video broadcast technology on the internet (if not, the future is still here now).
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Twitter as a Communications Tool for Unions
Submitted by Steve Dondley on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 8:40pmTwitter is yet another free Internet service that could open up new possibilities for union communication. Read on for more.
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Next Internet Revolution: Live Streaming Video for the Masses (and Unions, Hopefully)
Submitted by Steve Dondley on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 12:03amYou've got a blog, posted a couple of podcasts and some videos on YouTube, now get ready for the next hot way to communicate: live streaming video. You heard it here first. A new company, less than 1/2 year old, called Ustream, offers live video streams to anyone who wants one, absolutely free. I've set one up and coupled it with a live chat feature for my company, Prometheus, and I absolutely love it.
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