Funny how when you search for something union-wise using Google, you get adverts on the right side of your screen from companies promising to keep you union-free, or which will
happily recruit, train and deliver scabs into your workplace.
Yum. Just what a local union activist wants to see first thing in the morning.
There is a union-friendly search engine alternative called SoliComm, which has a bunch of cool features like discussion forums and support for multiple languages. Brought to us by the good folks at ACTRAV, the Worker Activities Programme section of the ILO (International Labour
Organization), the project is headed by Marc Bélanger. When a Canadian Union of Public Employees staffer, Marc was responsible for SOLINET, the first real international union presence on the Internet.
If SoliComm does for web searches what SOLINET did for online union communications, at your retirement lunch you’ll be able say you were there when the ball first started rolling.
Give it a whirl at http://www.solicomm.net/.
And then make it the search site your members can access through your local’s website.
2 comments:
But don't be scared to click on the google-jumping unionbusters - It costs them every time you do :)
True. An obsessive-compulsive personality could click a few of them into bankruptcy. :-)
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