Enjoy the long weekend for
sure, but if you can, take a few minutes to send protest and solidarity
messages to the workers around the world whose unions have asked for our
help. Links to all of LabourStart’s active campaigns can be found HERE.
As a kind of digital
thank-you, LabourStart Canada would like to make it easy for you to get some
great Labour Day reading. Cory Doctorow’s For the Win (sub-titled
‘Online or offline, you’ve got to organize to survive’) is a great novel about
digital economy workers organizing the world’s first truly global union.
The book is available in hard- and soft-cover in your local bookstore,
but Cory is a fan of Creative Commons licencing and so he has made For the
Win available online for downloading HERE. The download is free,
but if you like the book (and you will), then consider a contribution or just
buy a few paper copies for birthdays and such.
If you take a break from your
reading and attend a Labour Day picnic, march or other union-sponsored event,
take a few photos and send them to us at Canada@LabourStart.org
for possible use as our Photo of the Week.
And if after all that you’re really
filled with the spirit of Labour Day, consider joining LabourStart as a
volunteer correspondent. Our volunteers collect the links to labour news
that make LabourStart the site where trade unionists start their day. For
more information or to sign on just go HERE or respond
to this message.
Thanks for your time and
attention, get out there and enjoy the long weekend as soon as you can!
