Trades Unions & CoTech

I totally agree on the style of unions needed, I modelled the delegate system on what I’d read about the IWW.

Would you be up for a zoom call at some point this week to talk more about this?

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I’m not around this week much sorry. How about Monday at 4pm? We could make it a public call so other folks can join?

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Monday at 4 works for me, and a public call is a great idea. Although I don’t quite know how that works logistically, would I just post the zoom link in this thread?

We could try our CoTech Nextcloud video chat functionality. It’s just a simple link for public guests to join. I will test it earlier in the day and then see if it is feasible.

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This sounds great. I think it would be great if Space4 could be a launchpad for matching people in the CoTech community to work and advice. We’d also like to see it becoming a co-op incubator and have been investigating some ways to get unions to support us in doing this (and that we in turn can help the tackle some of their issues).

I won’t be in London on Monday. I’ll try to join anyway but I’ll be in the countryside so I guess it depends a bit on the interwebs.

Polly

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@chris could we perhaps have a forum category entitled “Unions and Workers Rights” to keep track of this topic?

@kawaiipunk, good idea, how about a "Labour movement" top level category and then we could have sub-categories if needs be for “Trade Unions”, “Workers Rights”, “Health and Safety”, "Labour Party" etc?

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This thread has been movement into the new Labour movement category .

Looking forward to the call today!

I would love to join this meeting to!

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Hey folks, here is the public link to join the video call:
https://office.coops.tech/call/5d39rksw

Bit of an experiment to see if Nextcloud talk works well so there may be some issues. I’m on now if you want to chat.

Hmm yes, very interesting chat! We’ll write up some short minutes and put it on the CoTech wiki for future reference. I think there’s a lot of questions to explore and hopefully we will be able to have another chat in the future.

Nextcloud worked ok but I had some issues with lag which I felt was sometimes 4 or 5 seconds between me and @KingMob :astonished: Would be interested to hear others experiences?

The highly early pre-alpha barebones of the app concept are starting to emerge here: Wobbly and in the repo GitHub - King-Mob/techno-syndicalism: repo for the techno-syndicalism app. read more at bananananaba.com/Wobbly.html.

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Late in on this thread. I was at the Coops and Unions working together round table in Manchester last week, look forward to seeing the Wiki report.

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We’re hosting the Unite tech workers’ social at Space4 in a couple of weeks time.

10th May from 6ish if people want to come and find out what Unite do, discuss what we could/should do, and/or join.

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I’m based in Newcastle but I’m always up for a call if you want to talk about the project, as ideas and contributions can come from anywhere. If you want, just send me a PM about a call and we can arrange something.

I’d really like to have a discussion about Unite/Unison styles of organising as compared to the IWW/IWGB, maybe we could arrange that sometime?

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I didn’t quite know if I should post about the meeting in a new topic or this one, so I’m linking the new thread here, I hope this is alright!

Hey Harry, did this thought/thread lead anywhere?

I’m currently doing worker with my academic hat on around helping empowering workers, and I’m looking at putting together “tech responses” and training sessions/hackathons/game jams to help workers engage with gig economy platforms. So I’m thinking about the ways that unions could digitalise, but also what resources/tech could help workers, and how we as technologists can educate or transfer skills to no tech workers.

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Hey @bates_oliver! The Union app is still moving forwards, called Wobbly now, I’d be up for a zoom call if you haven’t perished

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@KingMob that sounds up my street! I’ve not perished :slight_smile: I’ve got a a blend of interest in this with both my academic hat on for helping workers (specifically self employed couriers) and my cotech "but we are self-employed members and that’s making Unions confusing to me " hat.

When works for you and others who are interested? Things are all up in the air at the moment for the next week of so as people work out new working schedules.

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I’ll send you a direct message now

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