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Last updated: 9-2-2010 10:30:01 GMT

This page is automatically updated from LabourStart's database. At the moment, some of the details about our correspondents are incomplete, but we are constantly working to keep these up to date and accurate.

  1. Rachid Boussairi: Rachid works for the Union Marocaine du Travail/ Federation Nationale des Travailleurs de l'Energie in Morocco. [recent stories] [send message]
  2. Joseph Welsh: Joe is a delegate to the New York City Central Labor Council, a member of UA Lu638 Steamfitters, and is a co-administrator of Union Review. [recent stories] [send message]
  3. Kate Thomas: Kate is the editor and main blogger for the SEIU website in North America. [recent stories] [send message]
  4. Abdullah Muhsin: Abdullahis a representative of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  5. Amri Abdelwahab: Responsable des relations exterieures - Observatoire tunisien des droits et des libertés syndicales [recent stories] [send message]
  6. Rochelle Wong: Rochelle is the Online Communications Officer for the ACTU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  7. Angie Croft: Formerly LabourStart correspondent in New Zealand, Angie now has a two year teaching contract on the island of Mauke in the Cook Islands. [recent stories] [send message]
  8. Anita Gardner: Anita is Communications Officer at the International Metalworkers Federation, based in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  9. Amri Joyner: Amri is Assistant Director, Collective Bargaining at the UFCW in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  10. Sebastián Orozco: Sebastián is a journalist working for the Escuela Nacional Sindical (Or Unionized National School) in Medellín, Colombia. [recent stories] [send message]
  11. Anne Speed: Anne is campaigns organiser for SIPTU in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  12. Ajay kumar Rai: Ajay is the the president of the Nepal Transport workers union and a Board member of the ITF Asia Pacific region. [recent stories] [send message]
  13. Alan Maki: Alan is Director of Organizing for the Red Lake Casino, Hotel, and Restaurant Employees' Union Organizing Committee, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  14. Alan Peto: Alan is our Las Vegas correspondent. He is a freelance journalist and runs the website http://www.walmartworkerslv.com which is the mainstay website for Wal-Mart workers in Las Vegas who are organizing for the UFCW. [recent stories] [send message]
  15. Alex Gordon: Alex Gordon is an elected official of the RMT union in Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  16. Alex Hogan: Alex is a communications specialist for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  17. Alexander Ivanou: Alex works for the International Metalworkers Federation in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  18. Alex McCallum: Alex is Assistant Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia - Southern States Branch and is based in Melbourne. Responsible for monthly eTUonline newsletter, ETU website and quarterly ETU News. [recent stories] [send message]
  19. Alison Paul: Alison works for the U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project, which is a independent non-profit that works to support the labor movements in Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Central America. [recent stories] [send message]
  20. Jurgo Alkasaro: Jurgo is based in Spain, a member of the CGT and Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda. [recent stories] [send message]
  21. Antony McMullen: Antony works as a Social Justice Officer for the Uniting Church in Australia, and is a member of Union Solidarity and the ASU. [recent stories] [send message]
  22. Amin Kazemi: Amin is the International Organiser of Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network (IWSN) and the European representative of Workers' Action Committee (Iran). [recent stories] [send message]
  23. Ana Cernov: Ana works for Instituto Observatório Social, a NGO created by the CUT (biggest Brazilian Central Union), that concentrates in developing research and making its results public, so that union leaders can have accurate information to plan action and also to negotiate with companies. [recent stories] [send message]
  24. Ana Cosel: Ana will post Romanian labour news to LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  25. Anabella Rosemberg: Anabella works for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). [recent stories] [send message]
  26. Albert Narvaez: Albert is a Puerto Rican trade unionist, active in Hermandad Independiente De Empleados Telefónicos. [recent stories] [send message]
  27. Anders Eriksson: Anders, a member of the Swedish Teachers Union, lives in Uppsala. [recent stories] [send message]
  28. Andrew Casey: LabourStart Senior Correspondent in Australia, covering the Asia/Pacific region. [recent stories] [send message]
  29. Andrew Jones: Andrew is the national web strategist for the LHMU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  30. Andy Neufeld: Communications consultant working for UFCW Local 1518, one of the largest unions in British Columbia with 26,000 members in both the private and public sectors (approximately 3500 Health Care workers) [recent stories] [send message]
  31. Andy Funnell: Andy is a recent recruit and looks after the French pages. He was born in Britain in 1955 and has lived in France since the age of 20. A union activist in the hospitality sector with the CFDT since 1979, he believes unions must get over their rivalry (in France, there are five main unions) and get on with tackling the important issues stemming mainly from globalisation. [recent stories] [send message]
  32. Anita Fors: Anita works as a journalist at Sekomagasinet, the Journal of the Swedish Union for Service and Communication. SEKO has about 120,000 members and is part of the Swedish LO. [recent stories] [send message]
  33. Anne Mette Ødegård: Anne Mette is a LabourStart correspondent in Norway. [recent stories] [send message]
  34. Antony Dugdale: Antony Dugdale is the research analyst for H.E.R.E. Local 34, the union of clerical and technical workers at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, CT. [recent stories] [send message]
  35. Anthony Main: Anthony is a metal worker by trade and an active unionist, a member of the AMWU. He also helps produce a radio program on Melbourne's 3CR (community radio) called 'On the picket Line'. [recent stories] [send message]
  36. Antonia Mau Tempo: Antonia is a temp worker and railway electrician in Germany. [recent stories] [send message]
  37. Antonio Carlos Castro: Antonio is based in Brazil and is in charge of the website for ORIT the Americas regional organization of the ICFTU. [recent stories] [send message]
  38. Anthony Hiron: [recent stories] [send message]
  39. arabictest: [recent stories]
  40. Michael: Arbejderen is a Danish left-wing daily newspaper. [recent stories] [send message]
  41. Arieh Lebowitz: Works as Communications Director and Program Associate of the New York-based Jewish Labor Committee. [recent stories] [send message]
  42. Alison Rose: Alison is Senior Industrial Officer for APESMA, an Australian union representing workers who include engineers, scientists and IT professionals. [recent stories] [send message]
  43. Asaf Adiv: Asaf is one of LabourStart's correspondents in Israel. [recent stories] [send message]
  44. Ashok Subron: Ashok is a LabourStart correspondent in Mauritius. [recent stories] [send message]
  45. Atosha McCaw: Atosha is Campaigns and Communications Officer for the National Tertiary Education Union Victorian Division, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  46. Atte Houtsma: Atte is a member of abvaKabo in the Netherlands, active as a shop steward and an activist in the Socialist Party. [recent stories] [send message]
  47. Averlon Toussaint: Averlon works in the Information Unit of the ILO Subregional office for the Caribbean, in Trinidad. [recent stories] [send message]
  48. Thomas Campbell: Thomas is based in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he's an activist, writer, and translator. [recent stories] [send message]
  49. Ayadi Mohamed: Ayadi is the coordinateur de l'observatoire tunisien des droits et libertés syndicaux. [recent stories] [send message]
  50. Burcu Ayan: Burcu is International Relations Coordinator for the Tobacco, Drink, Food and Allied Workers' Trade Union of Turkey. [recent stories] [send message]
  51. Ayten: A member of KESK, Ayten will be helping to maintain our Turkish edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  52. Hassan Barghouthi: Hassan Barghouthi is the General Director of the Democracy and Workers Rights Center (CWRC) in Ramallah, Palestine. [recent stories] [send message]
  53. Colin Hinshelwood: Colin is shop steward (for now) at at a General Electric plant in Peterborough, Ontario and a member of the Canadian Auto Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  54. Barry Kennedy: Barry is a Regional Representative for CAW-Canada, National Council 4000. [recent stories] [send message]
  55. Basem Kuwaitan: Basem is head of external affairs for the Alba labour union in Bahrain. [recent stories] [send message]
  56. Yannick Etienne: LabourStart correspondent in Haiti. [recent stories] [send message]
  57. Teresa Marshall: Teresa is a communications officer for one of British Columbia's largest unions, and a filmmaker. [recent stories] [send message]
  58. Robert Daraio: Robert is Recording Secretary, New York Broadcast Trades Council. [recent stories] [send message]
  59. Brian Dominick: Brian is an editor at The NewStandard which regularly covers issues regarding labor, health care, safety, etc in a "hard news" format from an explicitly progressive, pro-worker perspective. [recent stories] [send message]
  60. Marc Belanger: Marc, an international labour educator now based in Canada, is the founder of RadioLabour, which launched in February 2010. [recent stories] [send message]
  61. Ben Bellamy: Ben is assistant national organiser for Connect, "the union for professionals in communications", in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  62. Ben Davis: Ben is Mexico Country Program Director for the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. [recent stories] [send message]
  63. Kirsten Burgard: Kirsten runs the UnionGal blog and is based in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  64. Ben Haynes: Ben is president of Local 6720 of the United Steel Workers of America, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  65. Ben Kempink: Ben is the webmaster of FNV Spoor, the Dutch FNV website with information about the Dutch railways. [recent stories] [send message]
  66. Weronika Szydlowska: Weronika is one of our correspondents in Warsaw, Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  67. Enzo Bernardo: Enzo is Head of International Department for FP-CGIL in Italy. [recent stories] [send message]
  68. Bev Pausche: Bev Pausche is a Communications Assistant for the BC Federation of Labour in British Columbia, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  69. Blaise Farina: [recent stories] [send message]
  70. Bernard Harbor: Bernard is press officer for Public Services International (PSI). PSI is the global federation of public service unions. Its 650 affiliates have over 20 million members in over 150 countries. [recent stories] [send message]
  71. R. Bieńkowski: [recent stories] [send message]
  72. Brian Forbes: Brian is National Coordinator - Organising, Recruitment and Campaigns for Mandate in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  73. Greg Anderson: Greg is a member of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW). [recent stories] [send message]
  74. Biju Longhinos: Biju is a lecturer in Geology at University College, Trivandrum, India, and also a permanent member in the World Federation of Teachers Union (FISE). [recent stories] [send message]
  75. William Saunders: President of the Vancouver & District Labour Council in British Columbia, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  76. Bill Reno: Bill is a union communications consultant in Ontario, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  77. Bismo Sanyoto: Bismo is a member of the FKUI in Indonesia. [recent stories] [send message]
  78. Blazej Sadowski: [recent stories] [send message]
  79. Brigid Marasco: Brigid is Communications Officer for the ASU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  80. Bernadette Moloney: Bernadette Moloney is the National Publicity Officer of the CFMEU Construction Division in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  81. Bob Beck: [recent stories] [send message]
  82. Rolando "Bobbit" Librojo: Programmes Coordinator for the UNI-PLC, the coordinating body of the affiliates of UNI Global Union in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  83. Bob Chandler: Bob, a member of OPEIU Local 343, is a LabourStart correspondent in Toronto. [recent stories] [send message]
  84. Bob Gallie: Bob is a member of the Labor Beat board and producer for 20 years. He is also the Labor Beat web site developer. [recent stories] [send message]
  85. Alexander Bobilev: Alexander works for iJET Travel Intelligence, and will be covering industrial disputes in the travel sector for LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  86. Robert P. Kolb: A member SMWIA Local 73, has set up and administers a wide number of independent labour websites in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  87. Bob Ramsay: Bob Ramsay works for the Building and Wood Workers' International (formerly the IFBWW). [recent stories] [send message]
  88. Khalil Bohazza: Khalil is a journalist based in Bahrain. [recent stories] [send message]
  89. Bojan Stanislavski: Bojan is a vice-chief-editor of the Polish trade-union magazine "New Popular Weekly" which is the only ``nation-wide trade union magazine in the country. [recent stories] [send message]
  90. Bernard Pollack: Bernard has led dozens of political and organizing campaigns across 40 U.S. states as a Senior Political Strategist for a major political organization in the United States for 8 years. [recent stories] [send message]
  91. Bernard Pollack: Bernie works for the AFL-CIO Voice @ Work Campaign in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  92. Bernard Q. A. Pitts Jr.: Bernard is general secretary of the Belize Communication Workers' Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  93. Karina Brocks: Karina is a journalist and works for a Venezuelan union called Justicia Obrera. [recent stories] [send message]
  94. Haines Brown: Haines will be helping LabourStart cover African labour news. He is a retired history teacher who now does some computer related teaching, such as Java, and some web publishing. One of his sites is a collection of some 3-4,000 documents in primarily contemporary world history, in which he attempt a working-class perspective (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives). He co-edits an African studies newsletter and is a member of AFT A & R and AFSCME retirees unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  95. Blair Penny: Blair is 1st Vice President of the PEI Federation of Labour, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  96. Brian Synnott: Brian works for the EPSU -- the European Federation of Public Service Unions, based in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  97. Acharya Buddhi Ram: Buddhi works for the Nepalese national trade union center, GEFONT, and is involved with the websites of GEFONT and Labour Nepal. [recent stories] [send message]
  98. Andrew Burchardt: Andrew is lecturer who took early retirement (and is now teaching more hours than before!). Before retirement he taught for about 25 years at Ruskin College, which is (or was) a trade union-oriented College. His subjects were Industrial and Labour Economics, and (more recently)effective internet searching. [recent stories] [send message]
  99. Peter Sagar: Peter is Trade union Co-ordinator for the Burma Campaign UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  100. Tewarit: Tewarit is one of our correspondents in Thailand. [recent stories] [send message]
  101. Charles-Antoine Bachand: Charles-Antoine is a LabourStart correspondent in Quebec. [recent stories] [send message]
  102. Carolyn Jones: Carolyn is Director of the Institute of Employment Rights, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  103. Michael Antonio Canganelli: Michael is an attorney and member of AFSCME in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  104. Carl Biers: Carl is Education Director for International Longshoremen's Association Local 1588 in Bayonne, New Jersey (USA). [recent stories] [send message]
  105. Charles Arthur: Writer and researcher specialising in the politics and economics of Haiti as well as covering other Caribbean countries for Latinamerica Press amongst others. He is also part-time director of the activist Haiti Support Group based in London, UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  106. Steve Balayewich: Steve works at Hitachi Truck in Guelph, Ontario is currently the Sergeant-at-Arms, Political Action representative and Guelph and District Labour Council delegate for his local union (CAW local 1917). [recent stories] [send message]
  107. Cindi Foreman: Cindi is a member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  108. Chad Alan Goldberg: Chad is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an active member of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 223. He has also been involved in the Jewish Labor Committee. [recent stories] [send message]
  109. Craig Griffiths: Craig does Strategic Media and Communications for the Community and Public Sector Union, is Marketing Resource Consultant for the Australian Nursing Federation and is also a freelance writer/designer with a BA in Sociology and Journalism. He lives in Tasmania. [recent stories] [send message]
  110. Rosemari Södergren: Rosemari is responsible for the webc ommunication for LO - the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. [recent stories] [send message]
  111. Chai Montgomery: Chai is a Unit Steward for Teamsters Local 214. [recent stories] [send message]
  112. Charity Ryerson: Charity is program coordinator for US Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP), a nonprofit organization that supports workers who are organizing in Latin America. [recent stories] [send message]
  113. Charley Lewis: Charley Lewis is a former teacher, former computer programmer, current South African Communist Party activist, and formerly headed the COSATU Information Technology Unit. [recent stories] [send message]
  114. Christine Hayvice: Works full time for CAW Local 2002 doing communications, based in Vancouver. We are the Airline Division of the CAW, a national local representing 13000 members of the Canadian Auto Workers Union - the third largest local in the union. [recent stories] [send message]
  115. Cheri Taylor: Cheri is Research Officer at the United Firefighters Union of Queensland, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  116. Isabel Cortes: Isabel coordinates communication work for the International Transport Workers Federation in London. [recent stories] [send message]
  117. Chinyong Chong: Vice President of Asian Pacific Caucus of Western Region, SEIU, AFL-CIO. Member of SEIU local 660. [recent stories] [send message]
  118. Chloe Gaul: Chloe is a a union educator and organiser who has a keen interest on global social justice issues and movements for social change, and a member of the Victoria Independent Education Union in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  119. Chris Garlock: Chris is the Managing Editor for Union City, the daily (weekdays) email publication (and associated website at www.dclabor.org) covering labor news in the metropolitan Washington DC area. [recent stories] [send message]
  120. Christian Karl: Active since 2003 in the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions ETU-MB, organizing international solidarity for the resistance of migrant workers in South Korea. [recent stories] [send message]
  121. Christine Revkin: Christine works as webmaster for UNI Global Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  122. Cindy McCallum Miller: Cindy is National Director of the Prairie Region for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  123. Chris Snyder: Chris is a business agent for IUOE Local 3, in Oakland, California. [recent stories] [send message]
  124. Carolyn Jacobson: Carolyn is the Outreach Coordinator for Working Woimen ROCC! (Reaching Out against Cervical Cancer) at the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), in Washington, D.C. For more information about this project, visit the website. [recent stories] [send message]
  125. Caroline Jacobsson: Caroline is Information and Communications officer at the European Metalworkers Federation in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  126. Claus Hall: Claus is active in the Danish LO youth. [recent stories] [send message]
  127. David Climenhaga: David is union rep, communications, for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (58,000 members). He writes frequently about AUPE and on other topics of interest to trade unionists. [recent stories] [send message]
  128. Diana Beaumont: Diana is an intern at the Asia Monitor Resource Centre in Hong Kong, and co-ordinator of China Labor News Translations (CLNT). [recent stories] [send message]
  129. Katherine Stecher: Katherine works for the Campaign for Labor Rights in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  130. Kitty Sun: Kitty works for China Labor Watch, a non-profit organization that fights for the rights of Chinese workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  131. Coen Helderman: Coen is a policy advisor for Abvakabo FNV in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  132. Cornell Organization for Labor Action: A student group at Cornell University, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  133. Colin Jones: Colin is a shop steward for Unison, Britain's largest public sector union. [recent stories] [send message]
  134. Philippe Matzkowski: Le Collectif LBO est la première association qui a porté dans le débat public la question de la place et du rôle des fonds d'investissement dans l'économie. [recent stories] [send message]
  135. Duncan Harrod: Duncan is communications officer for the Community trade union, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
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  137. Patrick Craven: Patrick works for COSATU in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  138. Stephen Crockett: Stephen co-hosts Democratic Talk Radio and writes the Democratic Voice column. He is a member of the National Writers Union (United Auto Workers local 1981). [recent stories] [send message]
  139. Michael B. Ganino, Jr: Mike is a local union president for the postal workers union in the USA (APWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  140. Annie Watson: Annie Watson is the director of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council. [recent stories] [send message]
  141. Center for Trade Union and Workers Services: The Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS) is an Egyptian non-governmental organization established in March 1990 by some labor leaders and activists guided by their experience in the Egyptian labor movement. They vowed to meet the urgent need to form an independent organization that advances and supports the needs of workers in a democratic manner, provide direct support and services to the workers and fill the void created by the "official" trade union organization which failed to achieve its fundamental obligations. [recent stories] [send message]
  142. Matthew Rocks: Matthew works for the CEPU - Communication Workers Union (Queensland) in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  143. Marek Canek: Marek is a PhD student at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, researching labour immigration to the Czech Republic. [recent stories] [send message]
  144. Damian Sat³awa: Damian is secretary of the editorial board of the New Popular Weekly, in Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  145. Damien Davie: Damien is lead organizer for the LHMU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  146. Daniel Crute: Daniel is a LabourStart correspondent based in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  147. Daniel Byron: Daniel is a student and LHMU member in Australia. His blog can be found at http://www.danleyrant.blogspot.com/. [recent stories] [send message]
  148. Dan Cork: Dan serves as Program Officer for the Gulf States and Yemen at the Solidarity Center, an allied organization of the AFL-CIO. [recent stories] [send message]
  149. Dave Anderson: Dave is President, AFSCME Local 3592 and Recording Secretary for AFSCME Council 76, in Colorado. [recent stories] [send message]
  150. Dave Gilbert: Dave is an Australian working as a teacher in Umpiem Refugee Camp in Thailand, and is also involved in Indymedia Burma. "Because everyone from Burma here is illegal," he says, "there are no official trade unions. However there is a lot of activism by illegal migrant workers and there are migrant worker organisations and strikes and other actions." [recent stories] [send message]
  151. Dave Smith: Dave Smith is Director of Communications, National Union of Government and Federated Workers of Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  152. Dave Thompson: Dave is the Regional Organizer for the Public Service Alliance of Canada based in Yellowknife. His territory is the Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. [recent stories] [send message]
  153. David Braniff-Herbert: David is National Organiser for Youth and Students at Unite, Britain's largest union. [recent stories] [send message]
  154. David Carey: David is Joint National Secretary for the Community and Public Sector Union - SPSF Group in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  155. David Shih: David is program coordinator for China Labor Watch. [recent stories] [send message]
  156. David Eden: David is editor of LabourStart's Spanish language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  157. David Fahlen: [recent stories] [send message]
  158. David Hollis: Dave is the founder of LabourNet Germany. [recent stories] [send message]
  159. David Koff: David, a member of HERE, is working on the national mobilization for immigrant and worker rights, the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. This is an international labor and civil rights issue and is already receiving widespread attention in labor, religious, ethnic, and mainstream media. More information is available at www.iwfr.org [recent stories] [send message]
  160. David Shai: David is a member of Kibbutz Ein Dor and works in its wire and cable factory. [recent stories] [send message]
  161. David Stephens: David works as for the Australian Federation of Air Pilots as``Senior Industrial Officer and Deputy Editor of the union journal, "Air Pilot". He has served as a delegate and union official for some 25 years. [recent stories] [send message]
  162. Dawn Page: Dawn is Communications Manager for LIUNA - the Laborers International Union of North America. [recent stories] [send message]
  163. Derek Blackadder: LabourStart's senior correspondent in Canada, Derek is a National Representative in CUPE's Peterborough (Ontario) office. [recent stories] [send message]
  164. Daniel Blackburn: Daniel is director of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR), based in London. [recent stories] [send message]
  165. Dennis Britton: Dennis is the LabourStart correspondent in the Bahamas. [recent stories] [send message]
  166. Dennis Chunisingh: Dennis is General Secretary of the Managers & Supervisors Association in Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  167. Vallan Scott Anundson: Vallan is a delegate and founding member of the Washington DC branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). [recent stories] [send message]
  168. Don Osachoff: [recent stories] [send message]
  169. Dee Luxford: Dee is a branch organiser, Sussex Taxes, for the PCS union in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  170. Delia Hutchinson: Delia works in the Labour Studies office at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and is a member of CAW Local 555. [recent stories] [send message]
  171. David Empey: David is President of the University of Western Ontario Staff Association, an independent union which represents 1050 administrative and technical staff. [recent stories] [send message]
  172. Denis B.: Denis is an IT engineer working in a national union office in Russia; he also runs this site - Profsoyz. [recent stories] [send message]
  173. Dennis Rock: Dennis has been a member of the Machinists Union (IAMAW) for 26 years and is a a Committeeman at the shop he works at. He is also the editor of the Local Lodge's newsletter, "The Fighting Machinists", Communicator for the Local, and Recording Secretary. His Local Lodge 1227 is located in Valparaiso, Indiana which is in District 90 of the Midwest Territories. [recent stories] [send message]
  174. Robert Deschambault: Robert works as an advisor to the CSN in Quebec. [recent stories] [send message]
  175. David Francis: David is a Research Associate for SEIU Local 1 in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  176. David Gibney: David is Public Relations Officer for MANDATE in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  177. Dharmendra Kumar: Dkharmendra is secretary of Janpahal, and is an organizer working with urban poor namely, ragpickers, rickshaw pullers, street vendors, domestic workers and construction workers in India. [recent stories] [send message]
  178. Steve Diamond: Steve writes: "Nearly thirty years experience in the labor movement, beginning with my first union card (UFCW) at age 14. Grandparents were in the SF General Strike. Currently study and teach international labor rights, international economy and corporate law. Frequently advise labor unions on these issues." [recent stories] [send message]
  179. Hsin-Hsing Chen: Chen is a long-time participant in Taiwan's labour movement and solidarity campaigns with workers in other countries. Currently he is an associate professor of labour studies at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies at Shih-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. [recent stories] [send message]
  180. Trung Doan: Trung Doan is General Secretary of the Committee to Protect``Vietnamese Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  181. Doerte: Doerte is editor of LabourStart's German language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  182. Dom Tuvera: Dom is Campaign Officer of the Ban Asbestos Campaign of the Associated Labor Unions (ALU)/Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and Building and Woodworkers International (BWI). [recent stories] [send message]
  183. Donald Brown: Donald an organiser with the LHMU in Queensland, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  184. Don Polly: Don is a lifelong trade unionist, a semi-retired journalist, who has been writing features, and commissioned pieces for the New Zealand Engineers Union for a number of years, as well as a weekly web column "The week that was... with Don Polly." [recent stories] [send message]
  185. Don Sutherland: Don Sutherland is the National Industrial Officer at the AMWU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  186. Danny Postel: Danny is a writer and activist living in Chicago. He is Communications Coordinator for the organization Interfaith Worker Justice (www.iwj.org), which campaigns against the pernicious practice of wage theft. He is also a Contributing Editor of the online journal Logos (www.logosjournal.com) and used to be Senior Editor of the online magazine openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net). He writes frequently about Iran, with a particular focus on the Iranian labor movement (see www.postelservice.com). He also does solidarity work and antiwar activism around Iran. He's a founding member of the Chicago Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iran (www.iran-solidarity.net) and a member of the No War on Iran Coalition (www.nowaroniran-chicago.org). He's written for The Guardian, The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times, and other such outlets. [recent stories] [send message]
  187. Debbie Rasmussen: Debbie one of the two primary people who helped organize a union at Whole Foods Market in Madison, Wisconsin. She, along with one other person, have been maintaining the union's web site (http://www.wholeworkersunite.org). Although fired for my involvement in the union in November, 2002, she still maintains the web site in her free time. [recent stories] [send message]
  188. Andrew Mizzi: Andrew is national secretary of the General Workers' Union in Malta. [recent stories] [send message]
  189. Dr. M. Kailasa Pathi: Dr Pathi is Editor of The Labour News, a registered weekly newspaper, published in Andhra Pradesh. [recent stories] [send message]
  190. Duck Swart: Duck is webmaster for FNV BOUW in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  191. Nick Durie: Nick is Central Scotland Organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). [recent stories] [send message]
  192. Dustin Teske: Dustin is based in the USA and works on the UnionGuide website. [recent stories] [send message]
  193. Eddy Stam: Eddy Stam is a national officer for FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands and is posted as a guest secretary at the European Metalworkers Federation in Brussels, Belgium. He has an (inter)national background in metal- transport- and service-industry and is a trained expert on organizing. [recent stories] [send message]
  194. Edgar Callano: Edgar is a LabourStart correspondent in the Phillipines. He does occasional web editing for apl.org.ph and ciu.ph websites. An advocate of "telephone-for-everyhome", wireless and broadband internet connectivity with special interests to remote provinces, public schools and local government units and agencies in the Philippines. He works as economic researcher, network and PC technician. [recent stories] [send message]
  195. Ed Goddard: Ed is a UNISON shop steward in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  196. Erinn Graham-Barter: Erinn is a Research Associate with Service Employees International Union Canada, and a member of CEP. [recent stories] [send message]
  197. Paul L. Quintos: Paul is Executive Director of the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc., in the Philippines. We are a non-governmental institution which provides services to unions and workers' organizations. The services we provide are giving trainings and seminars to workers, development of modules for trade union education, and research work for labor-related issues. [recent stories] [send message]
  198. Eldon Ray Stephens: Eldon is an AFSCME member in Oklahoma. [recent stories] [send message]
  199. Martin van der Linden: Martin works for CNV Vakcentrale, in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  200. Ellen David Friedman: Ellen is a retired member of the National Education Association (NEA) in the United States, is a lifetime union organizer and activist, and currently spends part of every year in China. [recent stories] [send message]
  201. Evan Matthew Daniel: Evan is a Ph.D. Student (History and Political Science) at the New School for Social Research and a processing archivst at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. [recent stories] [send message]
  202. Emil: Emil is a student and a member of the editorial collective of the New People's Weekly in Warsaw, Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  203. Eric Lee: Founding editor of LabourStart. Author of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism, published by Pluto Press in 1996. For more information visit http://www.ericlee.info. [recent stories] [send message]
  204. Eric Hustvedt: Eric is the information officer for StraightGoods.com in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  205. Erika DeCarlo: Erika is helping out with LabourStart's German language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  206. Erik Davis: Erik writes: "I am an anthropologist of contemporary Cambodian Buddhism whose work in that area deeply concerns the practices and effects of agriculture, environmental degradation, and the influential garment industry in Cambodia and Southeast Asia more generally. Stories of interest to readers of LabourStart may include stories I write to my own blog, and which I think of as 'commoning' (use of shared lands, or their destruction) and labor unionism." [recent stories] [send message]
  207. Chaka E. Rukobo: Chaka works for the Union of Northern Workers, based in Yellowknife, NWT, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  208. Espen L�ken: Espen L�ken is a former senior shop steward in a Norwegian oil company, now employed as a researcher at the Fafo Insitute for Applied Social Science working with projects towards trade unions. He ran the first local union web site in Norway, and started the independent web site Faglig vev (Union web) with union news and links in May 2000. Espen is editor of the Norwegian LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  209. Ethan Clarke: Ethan is Organizing Coordinator for Workers United Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  210. Euan Gibb: Euan is an associate researcher for SEIU Local 1, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  211. Eugene Plawiuk: [recent stories] [send message]
  212. Evy Varsamopoulou: Evy is Senior Lecturer and Admissions Tutor, Department of European Philosophy and Literature at Anglia Polytechnic University, and editor of the Greek language edition of LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  213. Ewa Jasiewicz: Ewa is a member of the NUJ and TGWU in the UK, and the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions. She used to work as a union organiser for the TGWU - and is now working on a campaign to keep Iraqi oil in the public sector supporting Iraqi trade unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  214. Eylem Ates: Eylem is Vice President of the Turkish Civil Aviation Union (Hava-Is). [recent stories] [send message]
  215. Eyup Ozer: Eyup is a university student and a member of the Social Rights Association in Turkey, which produces a monthly report about Social Rights with a focus on Labor Rights. It collects news from every newspaper, website and trade unions on a daily basis, publishing some of the news on its website (in Turkish only). [recent stories] [send message]
  216. Faraz Khan: Faraz is a Researcher at the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, based in Washington, DC. [recent stories] [send message]
  217. Farid C. Partovi: Farid is working with the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran and is also a member of CUPE Local 4772 in Toronto, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  218. Francisco Cendejas: Francisco works with SEIU Local 615 in Providence, Rhode Island. [recent stories] [send message]
  219. Fons Vannieuwenhuyse: Fons is the campaigns and research assistant at the Brussels-based ICEM. [recent stories] [send message]
  220. Francine Filion: Francine is Director of Communications for the Canadian Teachers Federation. [recent stories] [send message]
  221. Francisco d'Oliveira Raposo: Francisco is a leader of the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores do Municipio de Lisboa - Lisbon Council Workers Union and is involved in its international work. [recent stories] [send message]
  222. Fred Hyde: Active in AFSCME since 1976, was a delegate to the King County, Washington, Central Labor Council for 18 years, and a frequent delegate ot the Washington State Labor Council. I have organized labor support to defend the free speech rights of radicals, abortion rights, native american rights, affirmative action, welfare rights. I have also gotten resolutions passed to oppose the neo-nazis and white supremacists, attempts to repeal gay rights. work as an Administrative Law Judge for the State of Washington, and am a civil rights and civil liberties lawyer in my spare time. [recent stories] [send message]
  223. Lindley Bergue: [recent stories] [send message]
  224. Funmi Komolafe: Funmi Komolafe, who works for the Vanguard newspaper, is our correspondent in Nigeria. [recent stories] [send message]
  225. Galina Yurova: Galina is education officer for the IUF in Moscow, Russia. [recent stories] [send message]
  226. Brian Gardiner: Brian is Communications officer with the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU), based in Burnaby , B.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  227. Gavin MacFadyen: Gavin writes: Since I was 13 years old, I've held interest in labour and social justice movements; Former producer-director of investigative TV series World in Action and many other broadcasters. Now director, Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) based at City University, London, UK. While training journalists in investigative practice & method in South Africa, Europe, the UK, the US and South America I frequently come across labour stories and can bring them to LabourStart's readers. [recent stories] [send message]
  228. Leslie Gonsalves: Leslie is general secretary of the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union(GB&GWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  229. Nigel Indar Paul: Nigel is a Trustee for the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union in Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  230. Geneviève F. Kalina: Geneviève works for the BWI in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  231. Geoff Martin: Geoff Martin heads up campaigns for the Health Emergency pressure group. He also runs the Left Field stage at Glastonbury Festival, co-ordinates the Hope Not Hate anti-fascist coalition and co-owns the Miltant Entertainment record label. [recent stories] [send message]
  232. George Cheatham: George is a law student in the USA, active in a number of progressive and pro-labour organizations. [recent stories] [send message]
  233. Gilles Anne: [recent stories] [send message]
  234. Gisela Neunhoeffer: Gisela is the TNC coordinator for the IUF in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  235. George Lessard: George Lessard is a long time access media activist and was first constructively dismissed while trying to organize a union when he worked for a college in Montreal, Quebec back in the early '70s. He's been paying attention to his (and his fellow) worker's rights since then. Since his departure from his most recent employer he's been volunteering to help with communications for his former union, the Nunavut Employees Union by moderating an e-mail list for them.``For more information about George, visit his website``A Media Activist's Homepages. [recent stories] [send message]
  236. G.M. Cook: Member of the United Steel Workers, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  237. Gary Meadows: Gary is a member of Teamsters Local 880 in Southern Ontario, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  238. George Kofi Mude: George is Public Affairs Officer (Publications) for the Ghana Trades Union Congress and editor of TUC's quarterly newspaper, The Ghanaian Worker. [recent stories] [send message]
  239. Andrew Goodall: Andrew is co-ordinator of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  240. Ken Marciniec: Ken works for the Ontario Nurses' Association. ONA is the union representing 55,000 registered nurses and allied health professionals as well as more than 12,000 nursing student affiliates providing care in hospitals, long-term care facilities, public health, the community, clinics and industry. [recent stories] [send message]
  241. Bent Gravesen: Bent is a LabourStart correspondent in Denmark. [recent stories] [send message]
  242. Greg Banton: Greg is the webmaster of Teamsters Canada Rail``Conference (TCRC) [recent stories] [send message]
  243. Greg Beiter: Greg is a shop steward for the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 587, in Seattle, Washington, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  244. Gretchen Donart: [recent stories] [send message]
  245. Mike Guilfoyle: Mike is the Greater London Publicity Officer for Napo. [recent stories] [send message]
  246. Gil Vachman: Gil is the webmaster and sysadmin for the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center. [recent stories] [send message]
  247. Adetunji Haastrup: Dr. Haastrup is a member of the Nigerian Industrial Relations Association and has been involved with the labour movement for two decades. [recent stories] [send message]
  248. Pierre Habbard: Pierre works as a policy advisor for the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). [recent stories] [send message]
  249. Edwin: Members of the Confédération des travailleurs haitiens, in Haiti. [recent stories] [send message]
  250. Hannah Casey: [recent stories] [send message]
  251. John Hanrahan: John is Nova Scotia Union of Public and Private Employees and a member of the executive board of the Canadian Confederation of Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  252. Harold Bell: Harold is a retired cable car conductor from the Bay Area in Northern California (USA). He has been active in the labor movement for most of his life. [recent stories] [send message]
  253. Harold Tor: Harold is co-ordinator of the web communications unit for the Education International, based in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  254. Harrie Lindelauff: Press officer of the biggest trade union central of the Netherlands, responsable for news-department on the FNV trade union website, responsable for publicity about FNV support activities in developing countries. [recent stories] [send message]
  255. Louise Haysom: Louise works for StreetNet, an international federation of street vendor organisations organising as a sector of informal economy workers, and is based in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  256. Hazel Ripoll: Hazel works for Public Services International at its headquarters in France. [recent stories] [send message]
  257. Helena Hamalainen: Helena works for the Finnish national trade union centre SAK. [recent stories] [send message]
  258. Helen Martin: Helen is a Unison (UK) activist concerned about the problems faced by trade unionists in Colombia. She runs a new website called OtraVoz (another voice), supported by the NUJ and the SW FBU, which shows stories from Voz, an opposition newspaper in Colombia, in English. Otravoz focuses on the trade union and human rights stories as well as the main national news. [recent stories] [send message]
  259. Herb Yambra: Herb is President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Division 194, in Texas. [recent stories] [send message]
  260. Maureen Hermitanio: Maureen is currently KMU's Public Information Officer, in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  261. Leonard Hikaumba: Leonard is president of the Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia, and president of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  262. Steve Thornton: Steve is a member of Local 1199 of the SEIU in the USA. He's on the steering committee of US Labor Against the War. [recent stories] [send message]
  263. Tom Herriman: Tom produces a weekly radio show, Shift Break on KBCS-FM in the Seattle Washington area. He also operates a website and labor news blog, http://shiftbreak.com [recent stories] [send message]
  264. Larry Hubich: President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour. [recent stories] [send message]
  265. Huey Ying Lim: Huey works for the IUF Asia Pacific region. [recent stories] [send message]
  266. John Davis: John is an organizer for the National Union of Workers in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  267. Ian Allinson: UNITE EC member for Electrical Engineering, Electronics & IT. Runs a blog. Chair of UNITE’s Fujitsu UK Combine Committee. Chair of UNITE Greater Manchester IT Branch. [recent stories] [send message]
  268. Ian Martin: Ian works for the Education International in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  269. Ian Raines: Ian is executive officer of the General Union in Japan. [recent stories] [send message]
  270. Ian McArdle: Ian is Head of Organising and Regulatory Affairs for the Communication Workers Union in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  271. Irma Arkus: Irma hosts the 355 Daily News (samples can be found at http://irma.hiscifi.com), a syndicated radio headlines show, dedicated to promotion of labour news, environmental and science issues, and coverage of Canadian politics and economy. [recent stories] [send message]
  272. Mehdi Kouhestaninejad: Mehdi is working for solidarity with Iranian workers and is president of a CUPE local in Toronto. [recent stories] [send message]
  273. Ian Clysdale: Ian works for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). [recent stories] [send message]
  274. Igor Zustand: Trade union activist and journalist at the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions of Belarus and IUF national coordinator. [recent stories] [send message]
  275. Ilya Znamenskiy: Ilya works full time for VKT (All-Russian Confederation of Labour). [recent stories] [send message]
  276. Iman Rahmana: Iman is a coordinator of a labour NGO based in Bogor, Indonesia. [recent stories] [send message]
  277. Indah Budiarti: Indah is Organising and Communication Coordinator for Public Services International-Asia Pacific Regional Organisation, based in Singapore. [recent stories] [send message]
  278. Steve Ongerth: Steve is the system administrator for the website of the Industrial Workers of the World. [recent stories] [send message]
  279. Ioan Thomas: Ioan is based in Australia and has written for union websites such as the Victorian Trades Hall Council web site on OH&S issues. He works in the Education and Vocational Education and Training sector as a teacher and program coordinator. [recent stories] [send message]
  280. Andeesheh Nicko: Andeesheh Nicko is the editor of the Iranian Workers Bulletin. [recent stories] [send message]
  281. Masood Farahmand: Masood works with the Iran Labour Watch website. [recent stories] [send message]
  282. Irina de Sancho: Irina is in charge of the Equality Department in FeS-UGT (Services Federation of General Workers Union of Spain). She is also vice president of UNI Europa Youth and a formal delegate in the European Works Council of Generali Group (finance sector). [recent stories] [send message]
  283. Isabel Hay: Isabel is an Amicus rep in the IT industry in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  284. William Sheppard: William is president of CUPE Local 569 in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  285. Jack Clark: Jack's current job involves 'workforce development' or in older language job and skill training for transit workers, mostly affiliated with the Amalgamated Transit Workers and the Transport Workers Union. He has a long history of interest and involvement in labor struggles and was the first National Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), now Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). [recent stories] [send message]
  286. Michael Whitney: Michael works with the Workin' It / The Jackie Guerra Show, a labour radio show in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  287. Denis Jacquot: Denis covers France and French-speaking African labour news for LabourStart. Now retired, he formerly worked for the international desk of the French national trade union center CFDT. [recent stories] [send message]
  288. Jagath Bandara: Jagath works for the National Organising Unit- AMWU(Australian Manufacturing Workers Union) in New South Wales, Australia. He mostly covers India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka news for LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  289. Jake Lagnado: Jake is acting secretary of the Latin American Workers Association in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  290. Jamie Doucette: Jamie tracks Korean Labour and Social movements and is a PhD student at UBC in Vancouver, Canada studying East Asian Political Economy. He has a blog on Korean Social Movements at http://www.twokoreas.blogspot.com [recent stories] [send message]
  291. Rafa³ Jankiewicz: [recent stories] [send message]
  292. Jannie Volschenk: Jannie is Deputy General Secretary of the South African Communications Union (SACU). [recent stories] [send message]
  293. Jason Wallach: Jason has been reporting on labor news from El Salvador for upsidedownworld.org and crispaz.org [recent stories] [send message]
  294. Jasper Goss: Information and Research Officer at the Asia & Pacific Regional Secretariat of the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF). [recent stories] [send message]
  295. Julianna Angelova: [recent stories] [send message]
  296. Jawad Qasrawi: Jawad works on Hazards, the health and safety magazine. Check out its website, which won the Labour Website of the Year award a couple of years back -- http://www.hazards.org [recent stories] [send message]
  297. Jessica Emami: Jessica works for the Solidarity Center, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  298. Jeff Ballinger: Jeff Ballinger is working on a Pol-Sci PhD at McMaster University near Toronto. Starting in mid-70s, worked in garment union boycotts and organizing campaigns. Went to Asia for the AFL-CIO in 1984, returning to the U.S. in 1995. Most of his time was spent directing A.I.D.- and union-funded programs in Indonesia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Founder and Director of Press for Change, a consumer-information NGO which monitors worker rights in Asia. While at the University of Pisa in 2003, he developed an international workers' rights web-site for the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of the Science of Peace. [recent stories] [send message]
  299. Jordan Barab: Jordan has been working for 18 years for US labor unions in the field of Occupational Safety and Health, and three years as Labor Liaison at OSHA in the Clinton Administration. Since March of 2003, he has been the author of Confined Space, a weblog addressing workplace safety, labor and politics. [recent stories] [send message]
  300. Jeffrey Baxter: Jeffrey is based in Cardiff (Wales) and works as a support worker with people with learning disabilities. He is a dual ``card carrier of the Industrial Workers of the World and UNISON and also runs a weekly e-mail based newsletter ``for the Cardiff area called Cardiff Alternative News which covers alternative and radical causes. [recent stories] [send message]
  301. John Cartwright: John is President of the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, in Ontario, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  302. Jessica Champagne: Jessica works as a Community & Political Officer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) focussing on international solidarity and will help cover Indonesian labour news. [recent stories] [send message]
  303. Jennifer Luff: Jennifer is a researcher at the SEIU in the United States, and is a student of labour history. [recent stories] [send message]
  304. Józef J Drozdowski: Józef is 3rd Vice President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, Federal District 1, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He is also a local president and an officer of NFFE FD1's Forest Service Council. NFFE's FS Council is comprised of about 90 locals which represent U.S. Forest Service employees from Alaska to Puerto Rico. [recent stories] [send message]
  305. Jean Cooper: Jean is a Bargaining Unit Assistant for PCS, in the United Kingdom. [recent stories] [send message]
  306. Jeremy Kerbel: Jeremy is a planning officer for the LHMU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  307. Jerise Fogel: Jeri works on LabourStart's edition in German. [recent stories] [send message]
  308. Liam Craig-Best: Liam is director of Justice for Colombia, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  309. James Godfrey: James is an organiser for the ASU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  310. Jossel I. Ebesate: Jossel is a nurse supervisor at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital and currently National Executive Vice President and Manila Chapter Secretary of the All U.P. Workers Union (AUPWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  311. Jim Denham: Jim is a member of Unite-T&G section, presently working for West Midlands region NASUWT, in the United Kingdom. [recent stories] [send message]
  312. Jim Quinn: Jim is Team Leader Organising Dept, ATGWU in Northern Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  313. Jimmy Tong Yee Shen: Jimmy is deputy financial secretary for the Malaysian Trade Union Congress. He's also general secretary of an enterprise level union for workers in the largest bank in the country. [recent stories] [send message]
  314. J.J. Fueser: J.J. works as a research analyst for UNITE HERE in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  315. John K. Carter: John is a member of the United Steel Workers of America. [recent stories] [send message]
  316. James Kehoe: James is Vice President of CUPE Local 1001 in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  317. John M. Briffa: John is a secretary for the UHM in Malta. [recent stories] [send message]
  318. Jim Mellor: [recent stories] [send message]
  319. Joseph Catron: Joseph Catron is an organizer for the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a citywide tenants' union in New York, and an active supporter of Domestic Workers United, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and other innovative labor organizing campaigns in the metropolitan area. [recent stories] [send message]
  320. João Silva: João works for the union SINAPSA in Portugal where he is responsible for information (including the web), union strategy and foreign relations. [recent stories] [send message]
  321. David Jobson: David was the Treasurer of the Foreign Workers Caucus of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo South as well as a branch president of a union local. He was very active in organizing migrant worker English teachers in public schools, creating the first union local at a dispatch company for Japanese public schools. [recent stories] [send message]
  322. Joe Asphar: Joe is State Organiser of the AMWU in Western Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  323. Joe Carolan: Joe is an organizer for the Solidarity trade union in Auckland, New Zealand. [recent stories] [send message]
  324. Johan Boyden: Johan is an activist with the "Youth Union Movement," the Toronto and York District Labour Council Youth Committee, in Canada. He also covers youth and young worker issues for the Peoples Voice Newspaper. [recent stories] [send message]
  325. John Burgess: John is a branch secretary for UNISON, in the United Kingdom. [recent stories] [send message]
  326. John Campbell: John is a Unison branch secretary, a Regional Convenor for Unison Yorkshire and Humberside, and President of the Sheffield Trades Union Council, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  327. John Earl: John is a former researcher/organizer for the hotel workers union in Anaheim, California and is now co-owner, editor of Orange Coast Voice newspaper. He is involved in grass roots organizing for immigrant and other workers' rights. [recent stories] [send message]
  328. John Kelly: John is information officer at the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Melbourne, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  329. John Moran: John works as a media consultant for unions in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  330. John Wood: John works as Campaigns & New Media Office for the TUC in Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  331. Joseph Lapp II: Joseph is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  332. Josua Mata: Josua Mata is the Secretary General of the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL), one of the national labor centers in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  333. Jotika: Jotika is Publicity & Education Officer at the FTUC in Fiji. [recent stories] [send message]
  334. Jelle Postma: CNV Publieke Zaak, in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  335. Jacqueline Rotty: [recent stories] [send message]
  336. Juan Martinez: Youth Officer for the USMR-CCOO trade union in Madrid. [recent stories] [send message]
  337. Juhani Artto: A full-time freelance journalist since 1982. He now edits five web-publications: Trade Union News from Finland (English), Baltic Sea Trade Union Network (English), Ay-uutiset maailmalta (Finnish), Maailman Sivu (Finnish) and Medialinnakkeet (Finnish). He has also published on the web the manuscript of the book Everything at stake - safeguarding the interests in a world without frontiers (Finnish and English). All the publications can be found by visiting his homepage: http://www.kaapeli.fi/artto [recent stories] [send message]
  338. Julio Cardoso: Julio works for the CGTP in Portugal. [recent stories] [send message]
  339. Jerzy Wrzesinski: [recent stories] [send message]
  340. Jason Ward: [recent stories] [send message]
  341. Cynthia Kain: Cynthia works for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, DC. [recent stories] [send message]
  342. Karen Reissmann: Karen is a senior mental health nurse who has been sacked after 25 years service for speaking out against cuts and privatisation. Her campaign is demanding her reinstatement.``Details are at this blog. [recent stories] [send message]
  343. Karen O'Connor Coulter: Karen, a member of the Teamsters in British Columbia, Canada, is a lawyer with many years experience in the immigration and refugee field. [recent stories] [send message]
  344. Maria Kurzina: Maria is a communication officer for UNI Moscow office and also for IMF Moscow office. [recent stories] [send message]
  345. Kathleen A. Shaw: Kathleen is journalist and a member of CWA-TNG Local 31041, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  346. Mehmet Eymen: Mehmet is a journalist and writer worked in Turkey, France and Belgium. Now publishing an internet periodical Katman Haber (www.katman.info). [recent stories] [send message]
  347. Katrina Ford: Katrina works as a national industrial officer in the Printing Division of the AMWU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  348. Dr Roy Wagner: Roy is a member of the Board of Kav La'Oved, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the territories, personnel company employees, and new immigrants. [recent stories] [send message]
  349. Kevin Buchanan: Kevin works for the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Glasgow. [recent stories] [send message]
  350. Kirill Buketov: IUF Representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, based in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  351. Katy Carlan: Katy works for the organisational team at the Liquor Hospitality & Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  352. Lee Chang-geun: The International Secretary of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  353. Michael Keil: [recent stories] [send message]
  354. Mike Kempski: Mike is the Political Action Chair of his National Education Association local in Delaware, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  355. Ken Borden: Ken is communications officer for the Histadrut in Israel. [recent stories] [send message]
  356. Ken Hall: Ken is a member of AFSCME in Oklahoma. [recent stories] [send message]
  357. Ken Nash: Ken Nash produces and hosts the radio program 'Building Bridges'. [recent stories] [send message]
  358. Kevin Davies: Kevin is a Health & Safety Rep for UNITE in the UK, and works for Fujitsu in Manchester. [recent stories] [send message]
  359. Kiley Hernandez: Kiley is a communications representative for the IAMAW in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  360. Kim Mapley: [recent stories] [send message]
  361. Kirill Buketov: Kirill works in the IUF and is editor of the Russian language edition of LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  362. Kyle Webster: Kyle is a nurse in New Zealand. [recent stories] [send message]
  363. Roland Klaverstijn: Roland belongs to the NVJ, a union in the Netherlands, and blogs here. [recent stories] [send message]
  364. Klementina: Klementina is regional youth president of the Union of Metallworkers in Lithuania (LITMETAL). [recent stories] [send message]
  365. Katherine Livas: Katherine Livas works for the International Metalworkers Federation, a Geneva-based federation of 193 unions in 101 countries representing almost 23 million metal workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  366. Dirk Kloosterboer: Dirk works for the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation FNV where he is involved with local / municipal issues (decentralisation of social assistance and labour market policies; development of local role of the FNV). He is responsible for the website www.fnv.nl/lokaal which aims to provide activists at the local level with news and background info. As a researcher he also follows developments such as trade union revitalisation abroad. [recent stories] [send message]
  367. Anna Leah Escresa: Anna is researcher/trainer at the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, Inc. (EILER) in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  368. Koala Yeung Shu-Hung: [recent stories] [send message]
  369. Kollo: Kollo is a LabourStart correspondent in Russia. [recent stories] [send message]
  370. Penney Kome: Penney is the the editor of Straight Goods, a weekly online news round-up from Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  371. Cole Dorsey: Cole is secretary of the Grand Rapids GMB of the IWW, in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  372. Rob Koster: One of our correspondents in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  373. Kristyne Peter: Kristyne is a communications officer at the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF), based in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  374. Krissi Jimroglou: Krissi works for the SEIU in Washington, D.C. [recent stories] [send message]
  375. Robert Kulaya: Robert is a labor and lobbying consultant/trainer and a writer retired from a 25 year career of local union leadership within the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 153 at JFK International Airport in New York City. [recent stories] [send message]
  376. Juhani Kulo: Juhani is an officer for IF Metall, a union that covers most industrial companies in Sweden. [recent stories] [send message]
  377. Khumbulani Ndlovu: Khumbulani is a Zimbabwean female journalist aged 26 and works for the labour newspaper in Zimbabwe - The Worker. [recent stories] [send message]
  378. Francis Lafosse: Francis works with Website voor Syndicalisten (WVS-SWS), which started in 2003. WVS is a Belgian website with lots of information from trade union sites, mainstream media sites, and alternative media sites. [recent stories] [send message]
  379. Lou Arab: Lou is a Communications Representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). [recent stories] [send message]
  380. Jean-Pierre Larche: Jean-Pierre works for the Confédération des syndicats nationaux in Quebec. [recent stories] [send message]
  381. Ron Lare: Ron is a Former Local Executive Board member for UAW Local 600, in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  382. Larry Wells: Larry is the 1st Vice President of the Oakville and District Labour Council and is a member of CAW local 707, he is also a labour and human rights activist. Larry has fought for rights of Colombian trade unionist and is presently working on a project to build a school and medical clinic in Guatemala for the Mayan people and sits as a Board of Director of Cantabal Health and Education (CHE). [recent stories] [send message]
  383. Oskar Larsson: [recent stories] [send message]
  384. LaToya Egwuekwe: LaToya is a writer for the Machinists Union (IAMAW) in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  385. Don Sheehan: Don is president of a 600-member local of the American Postal Workers Union. He is producer/host of a cable access program called "Labor Talk". Labor Talk is a monthly, 1/2 hour program dedicated to issues facing working families, union and non-union. The show is cable cast in 50 Massachusetts cities/towns, as well as on the web. Go to www.apwuma.org and click "Labor Talk". [recent stories] [send message]
  386. Lynne Baker: [recent stories] [send message]
  387. Dhr. Poot: The LBV is the fourth largest union in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  388. Laura Carter: Laura is the Assistant to the General Secretary of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers' Federation, the Global Union Federation representing workers in the sector in 110 countries around the world. [recent stories] [send message]
  389. Leah Marrone: [recent stories] [send message]
  390. Lee Campbell: Lee worked briefly as an organizer for UE, but is currently just an ordinary worker, working to help build an informal rank and file union activist network in Seattle, called Seattle Solidarity Network. [recent stories] [send message]
  391. Richard Leitch: Richard helps cover Mexican labour news. [recent stories] [send message]
  392. Len Bush: National Representative for the National Union of Public and General Employees in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  393. Levina Sung: Levina is based in Hong Kong, China. [recent stories] [send message]
  394. Liz Giegerich: Liz is Communications Director for the Transport Workers Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  395. Margaret Sharkey: Margaret works for the London Hazards Centre. [recent stories] [send message]
  396. Carol Ferguson: Carol is a project officer for the New Brunswick Labour History Project, a bilingual research project based at the University of New Brunswick and the Universite de Moncton researching the history of work and unions in the province. [recent stories] [send message]
  397. Lika Shershukova: Lika works for the IUF office in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  398. Steven Brewer: Steven is on the board of the Massachusetts Society of Professors. [recent stories] [send message]
  399. Linda Gale: Linda Gale works as Senior Industrial Officer with the NTEU Victorian Division, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  400. Lisa Vives: Lisa is Director of the Global Information Network -- http://www.globalinfo.org -- which carries news from the Global South on a wide range of development issues including labor. [recent stories] [send message]
  401. Scott Littlehale: Scott is a campaign researcher for the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council. [recent stories] [send message]
  402. Deborah Littman: Deborah is a National Officer for UNISON in the UK, doing bargaining research and campaigning around living wage. She has helped UNISON to build alliances with local community organisations to combat poor pay and conditions for private contract staff. UNISON's Bargaining Zone can be found on www.unison.org.uk [recent stories] [send message]
  403. Alex Livadaros: Local union president for AFSCME. [recent stories] [send message]
  404. Lominda Afedraru: Lominda is a journalist and publicity secretary for the Uganda Media Workers Union (UMWU). [recent stories] [send message]
  405. Louie De Vera: Louie is Education Officer for the National Federation of Labor in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  406. Louis Sombes: Secrétaire Général Exécutif - Confédération des Syndicats Autonomes du Cameroun (CSAC). [recent stories] [send message]
  407. Loukas Christodoulou: Loukas is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Great Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  408. Lucy Early: Lucy is a union rep for Unite, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  409. Lynette O'Brien: Lynette is currently a full-time student and formerly an employee of the New Zealand Nurses Organization, where she served as information coordinator. [recent stories] [send message]
  410. Maciek Śmigielski: Maciek is a high school student and LabourStart correspondent based in Toruń, Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  411. Mac Urata: Mac works for the International Transport Workers Federation in London. [recent stories] [send message]
  412. Andrea Ferrari Toniolo: Andrew works for the international office of FIM CISL, in Italy. [recent stories] [send message]
  413. Mahendra Prasad Yadav: Mahendra is director for organizing at the Nepal Trade Union Congress and was formerly president of the Nepal telecom workers union. [recent stories] [send message]
  414. Mahesh Upadhyaya: Mahesh has been associated with the Indian trade union movement and left in Gujarat since his student days. He worked as a full-time volunteer on environmental and other issues including the Bhopal gas tragedy. He specialised as a trainer and does freelance work with NGOs doing capacity-building work. He set up a Solidarity Centre in Ahmedabad to give support to small membership organisations and do human rights work. The Centre is currently concentrating on working with youth on the Gujarat communal violence which took place in 2002. [recent stories] [send message]
  415. Mahir: Mahir is a LabourStart correspondent in Turkey. [recent stories] [send message]
  416. Mairin Power: Mairin is assistant international officer at UNISON, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  417. Marilen Reyes Barte: Marilen works for the National Federation of Labor in the Philippines, on the Womens Department staff. [recent stories] [send message]
  418. Malia Karataþ: Malia is a member of the teachers' trade union in Turkey, Eðitim-Sen. She also writes for the magazine ÝÐNE OYASI. [recent stories] [send message]
  419. Juan de la Cruz: Juan works for the media and public information committee of the Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines). [recent stories] [send message]
  420. Francis Louie Mangubat: Francis is a working student in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  421. Tania Reeves: Tania is the the Queensland Council of Unions Media/Communications Officer (Australia). [recent stories] [send message]
  422. Manuel Yang: Manuel is a graduate student at University of Toledo in Ohio, pursuing research on postwar Japanese working-class social and cultural history. [recent stories] [send message]
  423. Maragtas S.V. Amante: Maragtas is a professor of labor and industrial relations, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City (on leave) and now is a professor at the College of Economics & Business Administration, Hanyang University Ansan Campus, Republic of Korea. Also an officer of the All U.P. Academic Employees Union, and previously, the All U.P. Workers Union, University of the Philippines (10 campuses nationwide). [recent stories] [send message]
  424. Djandel DP Marbun: Djandel is an activist in the Pharmaceutical and Health workers' Union "Reformasi" in Indonesia. [recent stories] [send message]
  425. Marcin Dobrzynski: Marcin is a LabourStart correspondent in Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  426. Marcus Denton: Marcus has done union organizing work with the Texas State Employees Union, a CWA local, and the IWW in Austin, Texas. Recently he's been volunteering with The NewStandard. [recent stories] [send message]
  427. Paul Tulloch: Paul runs the website LivingWork in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  428. Margaret Bozik: Margaret works for the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia which is a registered trade union representing professional employees. [recent stories] [send message]
  429. Marie Badarne: Marie works with Sawt el-Amel: The Laborer's Voice, a Palestinian workers' rights NGO in Nazareth, Israel. [recent stories] [send message]
  430. Mario Pacheco: Mario is a job steward for CWA Local 6222 in Houston, Texas. [recent stories] [send message]
  431. Mario Pierre: Mario is a member of May First Federation - Batay Ouvriye in Haiti. [recent stories] [send message]
  432. Mark Metcalf: Mark is a member of the National Union of Journalists in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  433. Mark Osborn: [recent stories] [send message]
  434. Art Martynuska: Art is the president of IAFF Local 463 (and has been so for 10 years), and is a graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program, '03. Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association Trustee. [recent stories] [send message]
  435. Mary Robertson: Mary supports a number of social justice/ freedom of speech/workers' rights organisations including 'No Sweat' and is enthused by fair trade, worried about climate change and very interested in efforts to amplify the voice of progressive grassroots movements such as Via Campesina. [recent stories] [send message]
  436. Mattias Emanuelsson: Mattias is a member of Skogs- & Träfacket (www.skogstrafacket.org), a Swedish union. [recent stories] [send message]
  437. Matt O'Connor: Matt is the Communications Director for CSEA/SEIU Local 2001, which represents 25,000 active and retired public sector workers serving in state, municipal, and town agencies, as well as local school boards across Connecticut. [recent stories] [send message]
  438. Matt Pouard: Matt is a health and safety representative in USDAW in the UK. He writes and distributes a fortnightly newsletter. [recent stories] [send message]
  439. Matt Rector: Matt is president of the GFT, Guam's local union, AFT Local 1581. The GFT represents workers in every agency of the Government of Guam and has exclusive recognition for Guam Public School System Faculty and Staff, Guam Community College Faculty and Staff, Department of Public Works Bus Drivers, University of Guam Staff, Guam Memorial Hospital Nurses, Department of Public Health Social Service Eligibility Specialists, Guam Waterworks Authority Workers,``Department Of Defense Education Agency Bus Drivers and most recently GIAA Airport Rescue Firefighters. [recent stories] [send message]
  440. Maura Tomi: Maura works as an information agent for Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute (IRSST)(Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail - in French). The IRSST aims to contribute, through research, to the prevention of industrial accidents and occupational diseases as well as to the rehabilitation of affected workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  441. Max Watson: Max is chair of UNISON at London Met University. [recent stories] [send message]
  442. Dan McCrory: Dan is president of Local 9503, Communications Workers of America with 1400 members. He is also local chair of the LA local of the National Writers Union (United Auto Workers Local 1981). [recent stories] [send message]
  443. Michael Danroth: Michael is Secretary Treasurer of Local 718 of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  444. Megan Dobney: Megan is the Administration & Publications Officer for the Institute of Employment Rights, a think tank for the labour movement supported by Britain's trade unions, labour law academics and practitioners. [recent stories] [send message]
  445. Mehdi Kouhestani: Mehdi works for the Canadian Labour Congress. [recent stories] [send message]
  446. Melanie MacDonald: Melanie is a video editor, a member of the BECTU trade union and Socialist Appeal in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  447. Mikael Elsila: Mikael is the editor of the monthly newspaper of the New York City musicians' union (AFM Local 802), the largest union local of musicians in the world. [recent stories] [send message]
  448. Maarten Meuleman: A staff member for internet services of the union De Unie, a union of 100.000 members in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  449. Muhamad Ali Bin Aman: Muhamad is a former union branch chairman in Singapore. [recent stories] [send message]
  450. Mauricio Garay: Mauricio is a CECOF union organizer for LIUNA LOCAL 183, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  451. Mischa Gaus: Mischa is an editor of Labor Notes magazine, in the U.S. [recent stories] [send message]
  452. Matthew Heaney: Matthew is a LabourStart correspondent based in Germany. [recent stories] [send message]
  453. Mike Henneberry: Mike is a union representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers in Northern California. [recent stories] [send message]
  454. Michele Nigra: Michele is a member of FIBA/CISL, a Federation of Italian Bank and Insurance Employees. [recent stories] [send message]
  455. Mick Holder: Journalist and campaigner on workplace, community and environmental health and safety issues. NUJ member. [recent stories] [send message]
  456. George 'Mick' Sweetman: Mick is a member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and also of Punching Out - a collective affiliated with the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communist, which provides a network for news on labour struggles in Ontario, Quebec and the Northeast US. [recent stories] [send message]
  457. Mick Duncan: Mick is an organiser with Unite and Secretary for No Sweat, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  458. Jennifer Miconi-Howse: Jennifer works for the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety as head of media relations. [recent stories] [send message]
  459. Mike Blain: Mike works for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, DC. [recent stories] [send message]
  460. Mike Dalton: Mike is president of POWER - the Progressive Organization for Workplace and Employee Rights, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  461. Mike Harman: Mike is a UNISON member in the education sector in Hackney, London will report news of organising in the education sector and in general around the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  462. Mike Luff: Mike works for the NUPGE in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  463. Mike Palecek: Mike is a shop steward for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and is a member of the editorial board of Fightback, a socialist newspaper. [recent stories] [send message]
  464. Mike Abrahams: Mike is media and research official for the South African Commercial Catering & Allied Workers Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  465. Mike Wisniewski: One of our Philadelphia correspondents, Mike is Secretary, Local 590 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a Delegate to the Executive Board of District Council 47 of AFSCME, and webmaster for the DC47 website, dc47afscme.org (the working stiff). [recent stories] [send message]
  466. Misty Malott: Misty is a shop steward for the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurse Union in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  467. Michael Laffan: Michael is web officer for PCS in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  468. Mark Meinster: Mark is a union organizer for United Electrical Workers (UE) in Chicago. [recent stories] [send message]
  469. Manrico Moro: Manrico is a member of the National Council and Victorian State Council of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU). He is also Information Convenor of Australia Asia Worker Links, which is a labour movement solidarity organisation. [recent stories] [send message]
  470. Mary Muldowney: Mary trains shop stewards in organising, recuiting and campaigning in Ireland. [recent stories] [send message]
  471. Anna Kostyakova: Anna works for the Miners' & Metallurgical Workers' Union of Russia. [recent stories] [send message]
  472. Matt Noyes: Matt is Internet Coordinator for the Association for Union Democracy, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  473. Molly McGrath: Molly is a research analyst for the Writers Guild of America, West. [recent stories] [send message]
  474. Moloto Mothapo: [recent stories] [send message]
  475. Joe Golowka: Joe is a teaching assistant and graduate student who specializes in US labor history and a member of the IWW. [recent stories] [send message]
  476. Moses John: Moses is a LabourStart correspondent in Nigeria. [recent stories] [send message]
  477. Mark Phillips: Mark is Media Co-ordinator for the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  478. Marta Pioro: Marta works for Solidarnosc in Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  479. Maura Pond: Maura works for the UFCW in the United States as a web communications specialist. [recent stories] [send message]
  480. Glen Mpufane: Glen is Unit Head of International Relations with the National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  481. Frank DeFilippi: Frank has been active in the labour movement in New York for about thirty years, was an Union officer in the IAM through the Eastern Airlines Strike, then worked for an independent union, and is now Financial Secretary Treasurer Local 455. [recent stories] [send message]
  482. Martin Smith: Martin has been a union organiser for 10 years at the Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council and the GMB union, and helped develop the initial programme of training for the TUC Organising Academy. He now works in GMB London where they have their own media operation and will post their press releases covering stories of our industrial and political battles on Labourstart. [recent stories] [send message]
  483. Michelle Travis: Michelle works for Unite Here, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  484. Mustapha Said: Mustapha, who is based in Beirut, is the project coordinator for the Arab region for the IFBWW. [recent stories] [send message]
  485. Michael Walker: Michael is communications officer for the SDA in New South Wales, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  486. Mark Carter: Mark is Secretary(soon to be Treasurer), Webmaster, Health and Safety Committee rep, and jack-of-all-trades within the ETFO Niagara Occasional Teachers' Local (niagaraot.org). [recent stories] [send message]
  487. Martin Wicks: Martin is Secretary of Swindon TUC, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  488. Ari Myllyviita: Ari is one of our correspondents in Finland and works as a principal in the Helsinki Civic Institute and as a educational officer in KSL (Civic Association for Adult Learning). More information is available in his own website: http://www.myllyviita.com. [recent stories] [send message]
  489. Nancy Knickerbocker: Nancy is Communications Coordinator for the Education International, based in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  490. Nat Bender: Nat is vice president of the Union of Rutger Administrators (AFT), in the United States. His personal website is located here. [recent stories] [send message]
  491. Nathaniel Catchpole: Nat is involved in running a website: libcom.org which includes www.libcom.org/news, the main focus of which is workplace and community struggles in the UK. He's a member of UNISON and the Musicians Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  492. Nathan Newman: Nathan works on labor rights as a lawyer and runs the weblog, LaborBlog. [recent stories] [send message]
  493. Neill Staurland: Neill was born in Canberra, Australia and I has lived in Norway since 1973. Rosenberg yard in Stavanger has been his workplace since 1986 and he is a member of LO and Fellesforbundet in Norway. In March 2007 he was elected deputy shop steward at Rosenberg yard. He supports the Burmese democracy movement and will contribute with labour and union news from Burma to LabourStart. He is a member of The Burma Campaign UK and Amnesty International. In addition he is a moderator/ member of Democracy_forBurma@yahoogroups.com.au, D4B in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  494. Alan Newcombe: Alan is a member of the CEP union in Canada and has been so for 21 years. [recent stories] [send message]
  495. Nick Holden: Nick Holden is a freelance webdesigner based in Leicester in the UK; his website is www.thewebtailor.co.uk and his most recent effort is the No Sweat! site. [recent stories] [send message]
  496. Nick Lucchinelli: Nick is Communications Officer for Unions NSW in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  497. Nicolas Pons-Vignon: Nicolas is a political economist, doing a PhD on the impact of the outsourcing of forestry operations in South Africa - ie, for workers, unabated casualisation. He's committed to making his findings available and useful to trade unions seeking to organise casual workers. He's already worked closely with unions in South Africa and with BWI, as well as GURN. [recent stories] [send message]
  498. Nikos Lountos: Nikos is a LabourStart correspondent in Greece. He has been active in campaigns of solidarity around education, anti-war and labour issues in Greece in the last 10 years, and also a journalist in the weekly newspaper "Workers Solidarity" (Greek). [recent stories] [send message]
  499. Nina Kristiansen Skalle: [recent stories] [send message]
  500. Nathan Metcher: Nathan works with the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union, NSW Postal and Telecommunications Branch, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  501. Norbert Braun: Norbert is webmaster for Unia, the largest trade union in Switzerland. [recent stories] [send message]
  502. Bob Watt: Bob is Branch Communications officer for Nottinghamshire UNISON, in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  503. Joselito Natividad: Joselito is Executive Director of the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) in the Philippines. [recent stories] [send message]
  504. Nanne Sierkstra: Nanne works for Abvakabo FNV, in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  505. Laxman Basnet: Laxman is president of the Nepal Trade Union Congress. [recent stories] [send message]
  506. Dave Smith: Dave Smith is Director of Communications, National Union of Government and Federated Workers of Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  507. Stephen Pearce: Stephen is the Campaigns and Communications Officer for the National Union of Journalists in Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  508. Darleen Arokoh: Darleen works for the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  509. Jaron Phillips: Jaron is webmaster for the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union and are responsible for their website. [recent stories] [send message]
  510. Øyvind Berge: Øyvind works for FAFO in Norway. [recent stories] [send message]
  511. Miquel Loriz: Miguel is webmaster of Comfia CCOO (Comisiones Obreras) a Spanish union which is in charge of the following sectors: Financial, Insurance, Clerical (little offices), Call Centers, IT, and Temporary Work Companies. [recent stories] [send message]
  512. Andrew Mangampo Ociones: Andrew is chairperson of the MIGRANTE Sectoral Party Saudi Arabia, which is perhaps the broadest representation of the expatriate Filipino labor force in Saudi Arabia. [recent stories] [send message]
  513. Olaitan Oyerinde: Head of International Department, Nigeria Labour Congress. [recent stories] [send message]
  514. Olga Vinogradova: Olga is Union Network International (UNI) representative in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. [recent stories] [send message]
  515. Onder Ozdemir: Onder edits LabourStart's Turkish language edition and is based in Istanbul. [recent stories] [send message]
  516. Onno Bruins: Onno is webmaster for the largest Dutch Union FNV Bondgenoten. [recent stories] [send message]
  517. Davide Orrechio: Davide Orecchio is a LabourStart correspondent based in Italy. He is a journalist, and editor of www.rassegna.it. [recent stories] [send message]
  518. Oskar van Rijswijk: Oskar van Rijswijk: is a Union Man from The Netherlands. He works for the Dutch union ABVAKABO FNV. [recent stories] [send message]
  519. Tina Østberg: Tina works at Fafo in Oslo, Norway. [recent stories] [send message]
  520. Oskar van Rijswijk: Oskar is a Union Man from The Netherlands. He works for the Dutch union ABVAKABO FNV. [recent stories] [send message]
  521. Pablo Sanchez: Pablo works with Hands off Venezuela in Scotland. [recent stories] [send message]
  522. Paolo Nistri: Based in the UK, Paolo is currently studying for an MSc in Latin American Politics having spent two years working as a human rights observer (Colombia) and community worker/project organiser (Mexico and Nicaragua). [recent stories] [send message]
  523. Brian Oelberg: Brian is from Paper City Films, which makes videos about unions and other stuff. [recent stories] [send message]
  524. Paul Smith: [recent stories] [send message]
  525. Ron Taylor: Fired during the PATCO (air traffic controllers) strike of 1981 by President Reagan, Ron is currently President of PATCO, now an independent labor union. [recent stories] [send message]
  526. Patrick Poon: Patrick is the chairman of his union - WorkRight Union (Rights Workers Trade Union Hong Kong) [recent stories] [send message]
  527. Derek Pattison: [recent stories] [send message]
  528. Patrick S: Pat is a member of the IWW in Vancouver, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  529. Pat Wright: Pat is a LabourStart correspondent in Adelaide, South Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  530. Paula Doody: [recent stories] [send message]
  531. Paul Doughty: Paul is organizer for the National Tertiary Education Union (NSW Division), in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  532. Paul Hardy: Paul Hardy works in SIPTU's National Organising Unit, in Ireland. He was formerly a member of the NUJ national executive. [recent stories] [send message]
  533. Paul Howes: Paul is National Organiser for the Australian Workers' Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  534. Paul Palmer: Paul is a member of the AMWU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  535. Paul Hewitt: Paul is the editor of LabourStart's Esperanto language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  536. Pawel Sikorski: Pawel is a LabourStart correspondent in Warsaw. [recent stories] [send message]
  537. Peter Bosrotsi: [recent stories] [send message]
  538. Pepijn Brandon: Pepijn is the editor of a Dutch socialist monthly, called de Socialist. [recent stories] [send message]
  539. Pat Bruce: Pat works for the ACTU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  540. Phil Smith: Phil is Communications Director for the United Mine Workers of America. [recent stories] [send message]
  541. Percy King: Percy works for Unions WA in Western Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  542. Peter Hall-Jones: Peter is based in France and works with the New Unionism network and Force Ouvriere. [recent stories] [send message]
  543. Peter Murphy: Peter Murphy, one of our Australian correspondents, covers the Philippines, transport in Australia and Zimbabwe for LabourStart. [recent stories] [send message]
  544. Peter Rossman: Works for the Geneva-based International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF). [recent stories] [send message]
  545. Petya Klimentova: Petya is the editor of LabourStart's Bulgarian language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  546. Skhumbuzo Phakathi: Skhumbuzo is in charge of international affairs for CEPWAWU, which organises in the paper making, pulp, chemical and energy``and related sectors in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  547. Phelim MacCafferty: Phelim is the Projects and Events Officer at The Institute of Employment Rights, which brings the information and history needed to develop an alternative and more equitable framework of labour law in the UK, by providing comparative information and details of internationally accepted standards. [recent stories] [send message]
  548. Phil Cleary: Phil works for the ETU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  549. Phil Doyle: Phil works as a journalist for the Unions NSW OHS website Unionsafe, http://unionsafe.labor.net.au, in New South Wales, Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  550. Philip Hunter: Philip works for the International Labour Office in Geneva. [recent stories] [send message]
  551. Pierre Rose: Pierre is the webmaster for the CEP, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  552. Vinnie Valente: Vinnie is an instructor for United Association Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 777 in Connecticut, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  553. Piotr Kuligowski: Piotr is a LabourStart correspondent in Poland. [recent stories] [send message]
  554. Paul Barber: Paul works as a human rights advocate for the UK-based NGO TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign. Amongst other things, they campaign on Indonesian workers' rights and regularly disseminate news items on labour rights issues. [recent stories] [send message]
  555. Marc Bousquet: Marc is a member of the National Council of the American Association of University Professors. He publishes video and commentary on academic labor issues to several high-traffic weblogs and a Youtube channel. He is the founding editor of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, and the author of How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008). [recent stories] [send message]
  556. John Medhurst: John a Reserch Officer in the Protect Public Services Unit of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  557. Prasanta N Chowdhury: Prasanta is a Trade Union organiser in the field of Electricity. He has been the General Secretary of WBSEB Workmen's Union with 28000 members in the state of West Bengal, India. He is one of the Secretaries of the Electricity Employees Federation of India, consisting of 0.2 ``million electricity employees and is also one of the National Executive Committee members of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions,consisting of 3.5 million members. [recent stories] [send message]
  558. Piet Schouten: Piet is a member of ABVAKABO FNV, in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  559. Caroline Taleb: Caroline Taleb works for Public Services International (PSI). [recent stories] [send message]
  560. Michael S. Queen: Michael is a Purser with the Alaska State Ferry System and is a member of the current Inland Boatmen's Union (ILWU) contract negotiating team. [recent stories] [send message]
  561. Patrick van Klink: Patrick is a member of FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands, where he works for Unilever Rotterdam. He is involved in international union work within Unilever and member of the national negotiating committee. [recent stories] [send message]
  562. Pirzada Imtiaz Syed: Pirzada is Secretary General of All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions (APFUTU). [recent stories] [send message]
  563. Qamar ul Hassan: Qamar works for the IUF as Pakistan Project Officer. He is also secretary for education & research with Muttahida Labour Federation (a national trade union centre). [recent stories] [send message]
  564. Ricky Baldwin: Ricky has been involved in the labor movement for about 17 years as rank and file, organizer and rep, in Mississippi, New York and Illinois. He is a member of the CWA and IWW. [recent stories] [send message]
  565. Rachel Bernstein: Rachel teaches in the Graduate Program in Public History at New York University, and conducts workshops in Oral History for unions, schools and many others. LaborArts.org is one of her projects, jointly founded (in 2001) and continued in collaboration with Henry Foner and Evelyn Jones Rich. Debra Bernhardt and Rachel wrote the book Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives - A Pictorial History of New York Working People (NYU Press, 2000), and created a``traveling exhibit and a web exhibit with the same name. [recent stories] [send message]
  566. Rachel Bennett Steury: Rachel works with the Steelworkers union in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  567. Rachel Yates: Rachel is Administration Officer for the United Campaign for the Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Laws in the UK. You can find out more about the campaign at http://www.unitedcampaign.org.uk [recent stories] [send message]
  568. Francis Mourgues: Francis is a member of the CGT, in France. [recent stories] [send message]
  569. Marcelo Raimundo: Marcelo is a professor of history at the UNLP in Argentina, specializing in working class history. [recent stories] [send message]
  570. Raj Gill: Raj is a Full Time GMB Branch Secretary attending to members in Hotels and Catering and Hospitality and Security Industry. He is also President of Harrow Trade Union Council, and Ealing delegate to GLATC and SERTUC. He chairs the GMB Race and Equality Committee. [recent stories] [send message]
  571. Chris Ramsaroop: Used to work for both the United Farm Workers and the Canadian Labour Congress, working with migrant farm workers in Ontario. Now a student and community activist fighting both the corporate agenda and the lack of equity within the post secondary school sytem. [recent stories] [send message]
  572. Rand Wilson: Rand Wilson has worked as a union organizer and labor communicator for more than twenty five years. Currently, he is a Communications Coordinator for the national AFL-CIO's Center for Strategic Research. In addition to a number of senior staff positions with both national and local unions, Mr. Wilson was the founding director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and as a candidate for state Auditor, helped establish the Massachusetts Working Families Party. He is President of the Center for Labor Education and Research, and is on the board of directors of the ICA Group, the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund and the Center for the Study of Public Policy. [recent stories] [send message]
  573. Peter Rasmussen: Peter is a freelance journalist editing an international news bulletin from 3F - the United Federation of Danish Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  574. Ron Blum: Ron is Automotive Director for the International Metalworkers Federation, based in Geneva, Switzerland. [recent stories] [send message]
  575. Regan Carver: Regan works for the Center for Construction Research and Training, a non-profit affiliate of the Building Trades Dept., AFL-CIO, and will contribute news regarding worker safety health and training. [recent stories] [send message]
  576. Robert Chant: Robert, a member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, is webmaster of Breton Local 117's Web site (www.bretonlocal.org) in Nova Scotia, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  577. Robert Demaine: Robert is a UNISON regional officer in South Yorkshire, in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  578. Robert E Beatty Jr.: Robert is a member of the IWW Ohio Valley GMB, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  579. C. Reerink: [recent stories] [send message]
  580. Renato Palmi: Renato is a researcher and writer on the apparel industry sector in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  581. Tim Bowron: Tim is a shop floor activist in the National Distribution Union in New Zealand. [recent stories] [send message]
  582. Ricardo Hernandez: Ricardo works for the non-profit organization American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Philadelphia. His program is called Mexico-U.S. Border Program which more than 20 years ago pioneered the efforts to organize rank and file maquiladora workers in Mexican border cities. Those efforts led to the creation of the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras (CFO) which is now a Mexican workers-led organization. AFSC and CFO continue working together and one product of that collaboration is the production of information from original sources. [recent stories] [send message]
  583. Rhonda Slafer: Rhonda is the Communications Director for Teamsters Joint Council 25 in Chicago. [recent stories] [send message]
  584. Richard Hemminga: Richard is a Dutch dockworker and an active union member with FNV Bondgenoten. [recent stories] [send message]
  585. Rick Bujold: Rick is a member of the Syndicat des cols bleus regroupés de Montréal, in Quebec, Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  586. Rickard Pettersson: Rickard Pettersson is a member of the Union of commercial workers (Handelsanställdas förbund) in Sweden. You can read more here: Handels in English. He works with educating members in some of the union on issues such as working environment and what new members can expect to get out of their membership. [recent stories] [send message]
  587. Robert Johnson: Robert is a shop steward and health and safety steward for the Royal College of Nurses in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  588. Ruth Kershaw: Ruth works as a researcher for the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [recent stories] [send message]
  589. Rhea Martin-Scott: Rhea is a branch vice president for the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) in Trinidad and Tobago. [recent stories] [send message]
  590. Rwatirinda Mahembe: Rwatirinda is president of the Zimbabwe Graphical Workers Union which is an affiliate of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions at national level and affiliated to UNI at the international level. [recent stories] [send message]
  591. Rob McGuffin: Rob is a member of the Canadian Auto Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  592. Roy Nitzberg: Roy Nitzberg is based in New York City. He is a member of The Professional Staff Congress (AFT). Roy is a former editor of The New International Review and holds a Ph.D. in music theory. [recent stories] [send message]
  593. Robert Mkwezalamba: Robert is general secretary of the Communication Workers Union of Malawi. [recent stories] [send message]
  594. Robert Egan: Robert is a communications advisor for the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  595. Joel Robert: Joel is a railway worker and member of the CGT in France. [recent stories] [send message]
  596. Robin Alexander: Robin works for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a democratic national union representing some 35,000 workers in a wide variety of manufacturing, public sector and private non-profit sector jobs. [recent stories] [send message]
  597. Roger Sutton: Roger is an officer GLATUC in London (UK). [recent stories] [send message]
  598. Ron Harrell: Member of the``International Association of Machinists and Aerospace``Workers (IAM) and Communicator for IAM District 160 in``Seattle. BA in Labor Studies from the National Labor``College of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.``Please visit my IAM District 160 Communicator's website at:````http://iam160communicator.homestead.com/IAM160Communicator.html [recent stories] [send message]
  599. Ron Spratt: Ron is going to Cambodia to live and raise funds for the children who work inn a the dump in Phnom Penh. One of his ideas is to start a union of landfill/dump works. He will be using LabourStart to report on the progress of this unusual union. [recent stories] [send message]
  600. Palikhe Rajesh: [recent stories] [send message]
  601. Randy Robinson: Randy is senior communications officer for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  602. Robert Baran: Robert is a member of the editorial board for the Polish website, http://www.socjalizm.org, and edits LabourStart's Polish language edition. [recent stories] [send message]
  603. R.T. Shankar: R.T. Shankar is general secretary of the Hindustan lever workers union, in India. [recent stories] [send message]
  604. Hermann Rupp: Hermann has been active in the trade union movement in Germany for nearly 30 years; he is currently a member of ver.di. [recent stories] [send message]
  605. Levi Nayman: Levi works for the RWDSU in New York City. [recent stories] [send message]
  606. Sacha Ismail: Sacha is a socialist and student movement activist in the UK, involved in a variety of labour movement solidarity campaigns. [recent stories] [send message]
  607. Safak Timur: Safak is the editor and website correspondent for Sendikanet, a communication platform between the trade unions at both national and international levels. It's a project in cooperation of Gýda Is trade union in Turkey (food sector) and Rosa Luxemburg foundation in Germany, and is online in Turkish, German and English at www.sendikanet.org [recent stories] [send message]
  608. Sally Chun: [recent stories] [send message]
  609. Sam Dawson: Sam is press and publicity manager for the London-based International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF). [recent stories] [send message]
  610. Sam Maher: Sam works for Labour Behind the Label in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  611. J Solomon: General Secretary of the National Union of Bank Employees in Malaysia. [recent stories] [send message]
  612. Sandeep Samwad: Sandeep is a member of Bigul Mazdoor Dasta in India. [recent stories] [send message]
  613. Sandra Dann: Sandra Director of a community based organisation in Australia that with union support for almost 30 years has provided industrial support, information and advocacy to non union women who are the most vulnerable workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  614. Sanford L. Tanenbaum: A LabourStart correspondent in the US. Member of LL 1725 IAMAW and Contributing Editor to The Victory News. He is the former editor of LL 2444 The Local Review 1993-1998. [recent stories] [send message]
  615. Sanna Sandberg: Sanna is a member of Kommunal, in Sweden. [recent stories] [send message]
  616. Sarah K. Harper: Sarah is chairperson of the civil rights committee of AFGE Local 12, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  617. Muddappa: [recent stories] [send message]
  618. Sian Jones: Sian is the national press officer for the Communication Workers Union in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  619. Eko Sumaryono: Leader of the Nestle Indonesia workers union, works in the Nestle Panjang Factory. [recent stories] [send message]
  620. Sandy Bosman: Works for the Dutch labour union ABVAKABO FNV, as coordinator for external relations. [recent stories] [send message]
  621. Jennifer Schneidman: Jennifer is Outreach Coordinator for the University of Illinois' Labor Education Program, in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  622. Steven Dawes: Steven is a steward for AFSCME local 251 and runs the Labor Forum on the Democratic Underground. [recent stories] [send message]
  623. Sedraoui Driss: [recent stories] [send message]
  624. Sarah Gardner: Sarah Gardner works at the ACTU Education and Campaign Centre in Sydney. [recent stories] [send message]
  625. Seth Michaels: Seth is on the blogging team at the AFL-CIO, in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  626. Shawn Gilchrist: Shawn works for PACE, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  627. Shafiur Rahman: Shafiur produces and researches documentaries. His areas of interest are human rights, migrant workers and labour issues. His work includes a documentary on the garment workers of Bangladesh. [recent stories] [send message]
  628. Shane Enright: Shane is Trade Union Campaigns Manager for Amnesty International UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  629. Shankar Lamichhane: Former general secretary, Nepal Telecommunications Corporation Worker's Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  630. Shaun Tinsley: Shaun is civil servant working in Manchester and a member of the PCS union. [recent stories] [send message]
  631. Shawn Perry: Shawn is the Communications Director of the Amalgamated Transit Union - the largest international union of transit and allied workers in the United States and Canada, with over 190,000 members. [recent stories] [send message]
  632. Shay Cohen: Shay is a member of the new union Power to the Workers in Israel. [recent stories] [send message]
  633. Sid Shniad: Sid, one of our Canadian correspondents, has been Research Director of the Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) in British Columbia for the last 21 years. [recent stories] [send message]
  634. Simon Oosterman: Simon is Campaign coordinator for the SuperSizeMyPay.Com campaign in Aotearoa/New Zealand to raise the minimum wage to $12, abolish youth rates and win secure hours. Also a organiser for the fast food industry in central Auckland. [recent stories] [send message]
  635. Sindhu Menon: Sindhu is associated with a journal, Labour File - a bimonthly on labour and economic affairs. The journal is published``from New Delhi by the Information and Feature Trust. [recent stories] [send message]
  636. Goran Lukiè: Goran works for the Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia. [recent stories] [send message]
  637. Kay Tillow: Kay is Director of Organization for the Nurses Professional Organization. She is a lifelong union activist and organizer and is currently involved in building union support in the US for national single payer healthcare, HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for all. Her website is http://unionsforsinglepayer.org/ [recent stories] [send message]
  638. Suzanne Adamson: Suzanne is organization officer for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). [recent stories] [send message]
  639. Sanjay Kumar Dahal: Sanjay is general secretary of the Union of Public Services in Nepal. [recent stories] [send message]
  640. Stephen Mahood: Stephen is the Political Advocate for the Graduate Employee Organization UAW local 2322. He is currently finishing a Masters of Science at the UMASS Labor Center. [recent stories] [send message]
  641. Solidariteit: [recent stories] [send message]
  642. Steve Zeltzer: Steve is a labor journalist and labor video producer. [recent stories] [send message]
  643. Solly Nicholas Ramphisa: Solly is a programme officer in labour law at Ditsela, in South Africa. [recent stories] [send message]
  644. somrai: Our correspondent in Nepal; a member of GEFONT. [recent stories] [send message]
  645. Sonia Ruiters: Sonia is a student at the University of Free State (South Africa), doing a post graduate diploma course in Labour Law. [recent stories] [send message]
  646. Bahram Soroush: Bahram is in charge of Public Relations for the International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. [recent stories] [send message]
  647. Steve Maritas: Steve is organizing director for the SPFPA in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  648. S. Głąbiński: [recent stories] [send message]
  649. Ron Wood: Ron has worked at Shell's Stanlow Manufacturing Site in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire for 36 years. He is a steward, branch secretary, union appointed safety rep and represents Unite on the Chemical and Downstream Oil Industry Forum. [recent stories] [send message]
  650. Staphany Wong: [recent stories] [send message]
  651. steo: [recent stories]
  652. Stephanie Lord: Stephanie is a full-time political activist and active on political trade unionism activities. She writes a weekly column in An Phoblacht on workers issues and contributes regular feature pieces to this paper on trade union related news. She also keep an online blog which sometimes features trade union news. [recent stories] [send message]
  653. Stephen Dawson: Stephen works as a Research Officer for the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union in Western Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  654. Steve Beers: Steve is currently working with the United Auto Workers in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  655. Stephen Day: Stephen works for the AUS in New Zealand. [recent stories] [send message]
  656. Steve Yuen: Steve has been a union organiser for 15 years and is currently with the CPSU in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  657. Scott Pattison: Scott is Communications Officer for the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  658. Stuart Elliott: Stuart Elliott, based in Wichita, Kansas, is active in the American Postal Workers Union. He is also webmaster for Kansas Workbeat, www.ksworkbeat.org, the website of the Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. [recent stories] [send message]
  659. Hari Subramanian: [recent stories] [send message]
  660. Christian Mahieux: [recent stories] [send message]
  661. Suki Chung: Suki Chung works for Labour Action China (LAC), a labour rights non-governmental organization based in Hong Kong. [recent stories] [send message]
  662. Fransiskus X Supiarso: Fransiskus works for Public Services International in Indonesia. [recent stories] [send message]
  663. Suren Moodliar: Suren is one of three Co-ordinators of the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, whose website can be found at http://www.fairjobs.org [recent stories] [send message]
  664. Jan Cornell: Jan is President of the Staff Union at the University of Virginia/ Communications Workers of America (SUUVA/CWA). [recent stories] [send message]
  665. Stephen Wishart: Stephen works in the Office of Corporate Affairs for UNITE, the clothing and textile workers union in the US and Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  666. Terrie Albano: Terrie is the editor of the People's Weekly World newspaper in the U.S. [recent stories] [send message]
  667. Llewellyn Kenny: Llewellyn is a member of CUPE, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  668. Red Maples: TEA-KOR is Teachers of English Abroad in Korea, a grassroots support network for sharing information and reducing abuse against foreign teachers of English, especially those working in the private sector. [recent stories] [send message]
  669. Richard Negri: Richard is Projects Manager/Communications Department for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  670. Tessel Pauli: Tessel is based in the Netherlands and works as as Urgent Appeals Coordinator for the International Secretariat of the Clean Clothes Campaign. The Clean Clothes Campaign is a coalition of consumer organisations, trade unions, researchers, human rights groups and other organisations that aims to improve working conditions in the garment industry worldwide. There are national Clean Clothes Campaigns in 11 European countries. At the International Secretariat we often receive requests for international solidarity from our partners in garment-producing countries when garment workers' rights are violated at specific factories. Our activities (urgent appeals) to support these organisations and workers are writing letters of protest to companies or public authorities, launching large-scale public e-mail and fax campaigns directed to pressure companies or authorities to take action, send solidarity messages to workers and their organisations, etc. [recent stories] [send message]
  671. Thando Tshangela: [recent stories] [send message]
  672. The Worker newspaper: The Worker is a monthly publication of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, ZCTU. [recent stories] [send message]
  673. Thierry Duhin: Thierry is the IT & Facility Coordinator for the ICEM in Brussels. [recent stories] [send message]
  674. Thierry Lenoir: Thierry is publication and communication assistant at the Brussels-based ICEM. [recent stories] [send message]
  675. Tim Evanson: Tim is a LabourStart correspondent in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  676. tgunstone@nuw.org.au: Tim is an external organizer for the NUW in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  677. Will Scott: Will is Organizer for Local 105 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  678. Todd Jordan: Todd produces the Future of the Union website, a UAW rank and file publication. [recent stories] [send message]
  679. Tom Feiling: Tom is Campaigns Officer at Justice for Colombia in the U.K. [recent stories] [send message]
  680. Tom Glazer: [recent stories] [send message]
  681. Tony Burke: Tony is assistant general secretary at Unite, Britain's newest -- and largest -- trade union. [recent stories] [send message]
  682. Sam Pizzigati: Sam has edited national publications for four different U.S. unions. He's now retired from America's largest union, the National Education Association. He's currently editing an online weekly on excess and inequality called Too Much (www.toomuchonline.org), and he's also an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-authors an annual report on CEO compensation. [recent stories] [send message]
  683. Gary Walton: Gary is a union rep for Unison. [recent stories] [send message]
  684. Jason Thomas: Jason is a member of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union - JeonGyoJo. [recent stories] [send message]
  685. Mark Thompson: Mark is a branch secretary in ASLEF, the train drivers union in Great Britain. [recent stories] [send message]
  686. Tim Hall: Tim has been an activist for more than four decades and is currently a member of the American Postal Workers Union. [recent stories] [send message]
  687. Danny McHugh: Danny is a LabourStart correspondent in Ireland and a member of SIPTU. [recent stories] [send message]
  688. Giovanni Torre: Giovanni is a long time unionist and former Community and Public Sector Union organiser (in Western Australia) now pursuing a career as a writer. [recent stories] [send message]
  689. Dmitry Petrov: Webmaster for trud.org, the most prominent Russian trade union website, based in Moscow. [recent stories] [send message]
  690. Tony Elkins: Tony is a Steward at Bridgestone Australia, a State Councillor for the ETU in South Australia and an Executive member of the ETU South Australia and a National Conference Delegate for the ETU Electrical division Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  691. Benjamin B. Yinsob: First worked as an industrial relations officer for the Construction Union in Ghana from 1985 to 2001. A stringer for the TUC (Ghana) newsletter, "The Ghanaian Worker" since 1989. Now works as an Administraitve Secretary in the office of the Secretary-General of the TUC (Ghana). [recent stories] [send message]
  692. Kivanc Eliacik: Kivanc works in DISK, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey, as an International Relations Expert. [recent stories] [send message]
  693. Michael A. Serrapica: Michael is media coordinator for the Air Transport Division of the Transport Workers Union of America. [recent stories] [send message]
  694. Tymoteusz Staniucha: [recent stories] [send message]
  695. Tom Zaniello: [recent stories] [send message]
  696. Ans van Uffelen: One of our correspondents in the Netherlands. [recent stories] [send message]
  697. Ukeme Lechalla: Ukeme is a university student in Nigeria. [recent stories] [send message]
  698. Ulisses Garrido: Ulisses is a member of the Executive Board of CGTP-IN, where he is in charge of education and internal communication. [recent stories] [send message]
  699. Matt Alley: Communications Specialist for the United Mine Workers of America's Communications Department/UMW Journal. [recent stories] [send message]
  700. Ben Traslavina: Ben works for the Maine AFL-CIO. [recent stories] [send message]
  701. Rick Alexander: Rick writes articles for local newsletters of the Communications Workers of America, covering various topics with contract negotiations, benefits, grievances, and communications. [recent stories] [send message]
  702. Leanne Shingles: Leanne is Communications and Campaigns Officer for the Finance Sector Union of Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  703. Mariya Strauss: Mariya is Media Coordinator for the ILCA, in the United States. [recent stories] [send message]
  704. Richard Negri: Richard is a freelance writer, technology consultant and union activist. He publishes a blog at www.unionreview.com and backs it up with similar content at www.myspace.com/unionreview. He's a member of the UAW National Writers Union in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  705. Steve: [recent stories] [send message]
  706. Matt Ball: Matt is Director of Unions 21 - the 'open space' for trade union debate. Unions 21 brings trade unionists and our critical friends together to discuss the issues facing trade unions in the early 21st century. [recent stories] [send message]
  707. Susan Duncan: Susan is web/communications officer for the Union of Taxation Employees / Syndicat des employé-e-s de l'Impôt in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  708. Val Butler: Val Butler works for Telstra at the National Telemarketing Centre in Burwood, Melbourne (Australia). She is a member and shop steward for the CEPU T&S Branch at that site. She was one of the co-founders of SHOT Shareholders of Telstra, formed to represent small and employee shareholder interests. She is currently working on a website for call centre workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  709. Jon Vandenburgh: Jon works in the strategic campaigns department for the United Steelworkers (USW) in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  710. Shannon Sullivan: Shannon is a representative for UFCW Local 400 in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  711. Vaughn Goodwin: Vaughn is an organizer for the SEIU, and is currently a Labour Student at Athabasca University in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  712. Vicki Morris: Vicki is the publicity officer for Barnet trades council and maintains their website - http://www.barnettuc.org.uk [recent stories] [send message]
  713. Vic Thorpe: Vic is the former general secretary of the ICEM and currently works for Just Solutions. [recent stories] [send message]
  714. Vikki Chan: Vikki works for the IHLO - the Hong Kong Liaison Office of the international trade union movement. [recent stories] [send message]
  715. Viola Wilkins: Viola is a long term community and union activist in Australia, and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. [recent stories] [send message]
  716. Vittorio Longhi: Vittorio Longhi is an Italian labour and political journalist. He writes for the Italian leftist daily il Manifesto and for the CGIL trade union's weekly Rassegna Sindacale. [recent stories] [send message]
  717. Veronica Naylon: Veronica works for the ASU, in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  718. Ryan Larue: Ryan is a member of IUOE local 870 in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  719. Boris Kravchenko: Boris is the president of the All-Russian Confederation of Labour. [recent stories] [send message]
  720. Heather McClellan: Heather is the communications person at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  721. Fabrice Warneck: Fabrice is Secretary for Property Maintenance, cleaning, security servicesand temporary agency workers for UNI Europa. [recent stories] [send message]
  722. Dave Thompson: Dave is Regional Organizer (Pacific region) for the Public Service Alliance of Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  723. Warren Bone: Warren worked for Unite, the largest union in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  724. Bill Bumpus: Bill Bumpus works for Union Web Services in Massachusetts. [recent stories] [send message]
  725. Benjamin Weinthal: Benjamin Weinthal worked for 10 years as a union representative and organizer in the New York City labor movement. He worked for 1199 SEIU and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 966. He is currently based in Berlin,Germany and is the Labor Notes Correspondent for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and writes for both American and German-language publications. [recent stories] [send message]
  726. Wynne Hartviksen: Wynne is Director of Communications for UNITE HERE in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  727. Kevin Jones: Kevin runs the Safety at Work blog - safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com [recent stories] [send message]
  728. William Johnson: Will is one of the editors at Labor Notes, in the USA. [recent stories] [send message]
  729. Winston Murray: Winston is president of the Tobago Community College and the Tobago workers union. [recent stories] [send message]
  730. Dave Greenstein: Dave represents and advises workers in the UK. [recent stories] [send message]
  731. Yasmine Mather: Works with the Solidarity Campaign With Iranian Workers. [recent stories] [send message]
  732. Lennon Ying-Dah Wong: Wong is General Secretary of the First Commercial Bank Industrial Union (FCBIU) in Taiwan. [recent stories] [send message]
  733. Yoon Youngmo: Yoon works in Korea Labour & Society Institute, responsible for its "International Information Centre". One of the areas of work for the Centre is providing information about Korean trade union movement and industrial relations. [recent stories] [send message]
  734. Yu Bin Chiu: [recent stories] [send message]
  735. Deborah Turner-Davis: Deborah is communications advisor for the Yukon Federation of Labour, in Canada. [recent stories] [send message]
  736. Zita D. Allen: Director of Communications for District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, which represents 120,000 municipal employees in the city of New York and 50,000 retirees. [recent stories] [send message]
  737. Zoe Reynolds: Zoe is the MUA media and communications officer in Australia. [recent stories] [send message]
  738. Laure Akai: Laure is an activist of Union of Syndicalists and National Federation of Labor, a new union with a few portals, including the relatively new Pracownik. [recent stories] [send message]