It's been only a month that a union for the unemployed has come into existence through an ingenious grassroots organizing campaign. In case you haven't heard about it, the union's name is "UR Union of the Unemployed" or its nickname, "UCubed," because of its unique method of organizing.

UCubed is the brain-child of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), whose leaders feel that the millions of unemployed workers need a union of their own to join in the struggle for massive jobs programs.

"A place to start organizing labor, online."

Looking for updates after last night's arrests.

MarkDilley: "Announced today is the effort by temporary workers in the School of Business to gain improvements in their working conditions."

An Arthur Miller -- Charles Walgreen connection/irony on U-M north campus.

AFT alerts via SMS.

Eric Schlosser's Upton Sinclair retrospective.

November 17, 18 & 19th, 2006 at USC.

"A wiki is the voice and platform of the drone, and there are many, many more drones than managers. A wiki is a way for drones to organize themselves and to serve their own needs without waiting for the boss, the manager, or the Encyclopedia Britannica."

Recent evidence of self-organization in the shadow of the nonprofit-industrial complex.

"Why and how non-profits should use blogs."

"Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity."

U-POWER.

Maybe it was a future worth fighting for.

"Web design and Internet consulting for the trade union movement." Interesting blog.

"They claim that the large firms, which buy only a small percentage of fair-trade beans, are turning it into a marketing ploy rather than an effort to help farmers."

"Radio LabourStart is run on a shoe-string budget and broadcast on the net via Live365 ... it has listeners in 38 countries."

"Large corporations in most Western nations destroy more jobs than they create. They grow by acquiring competing and emerging businesses, and offloading the redundant costs and labour."