Flint – as in Michigan! Lead in the drinking water and the community, public and nation is outraged. Union Plumbers from Local 370 and around the state volunteer thousands of hours in thousands of homes thru-out the community. Unions doing what we do best – our jobs and stepping forward in times of emergencies. You… Continue Reading
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Plumbers Protect the Health of the Nation –
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Evaluation of 1,308 Building Trades Websites – You Decide –
We’ve talked a lot about technology – tools that could change how you do things. Today, we’re going to talk about technology you probably already have: websites. Labor Rising has looked under the hood of 1,308 websites, from internationals to locals and even most Labor/Management websites. Almost every local has a website, be it good… Continue Reading
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Who Will Light the Fuse? –
Sitting in our hands – a potential Powder Keg of social power! This Blog will talk about the internal use of Mass Texting in unions from locals to internationals. New communication methods such as mass texting, mass email and smartphone apps have to be used to have any chance of reasserting labor union independence and… Continue Reading
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Grass Roots Activists – Alive and Growing Everywhere but in the Building Trades –
Even the AFL-CIO which is “Lobbing from the Cheap Seats” is growing active again. However the AFL-CIO may have taken a premature victory lap regarding passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP). The AFL-CIO has approx. 40 million for political activities and lobbing which limits the sophistication needed in these campaigns. http://labor-unions.findthecompany.com/l/3/American-Federation-of-Labor-And-Congress-of-Industrial-Organzation Compare that with just… Continue Reading
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Twitter Overview Video – Social Media 101 –
101 from the perspective of “POTENTIAL UNION POWER” which now sits untapped. Consider Twitter as digital word of mouth on steroids in the 21st century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAP8s5QgkrY 101 from the perspective that we as the Rank & File don’t need to be social media experts and/or have big $$$ to leverage our numbers to significantly impact… Continue Reading
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Twitter = Raw Power –
The AFL-CIO nor the Building Trades unions have never trended a single Tweet. Twitter has changed a few countries entire regimes and has changed the course of politics and business in this country alone thousands of times now. Labor is sitting on some 12 million social signals and has yet to use them even once…. Continue Reading
Technology – The Younger Members Will Lead the Way –
Labor Rising & Leading Labor will take the weak technology that currently exist; and turn it into a powerful and aggressive platform that will substantially raise market share; and the younger members will lead the way. We as Building Trades members will negotiate our future CBA more along the lines of the massive social signals… Continue Reading
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ALS IceBucket & Market Development –
During my session of the Labor Rising classes, I devote a good deal of time to discussing the power of social media. While it may seem, on the surface, a way to share pictures of cats and be annoyed by people you haven’t seen in ten years, it is actually one of the most powerful… Continue Reading
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Technology is the single most under-utilized asset of the building trades –
Dan Woodman of www.leadinglabor.com is focusing on 4 separate components of technology that aggressively use technology along with our membership, to change the dynamics of market development and organizing. The first is an internal communications platform that connect leadership to membership thru mass texting, mass email and smart phone Apps. This entire platform is done,… Continue Reading
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Let’s talk 21st Century Communication…
Dan Woodman, Founder of Leading Labor, writing again today. I want to tell you about our communication portion of the Labor Rising program, which has been a huge success in class. (It’s probably the only time anyone teaching a class is actually telling the attendees to get their phones out.) Rather than bore you with… Continue Reading
