RE: UKNM: New Media Unions

[Toby Hopkins]

GPMU has a new media branch CMS Online which offers training and the like as

well as solidarity - http://www.gpmu.org.uk/cms/about.html. I am fond of

GPMU as long ago in the age of old media they gave one of my colleagues very

real and solid support when he was injured at work.

It is hard to imagine dinosaurs like these drinking apricot lattes, but what

the dinosaur can do is offer a range of services - legal, bargaining, health

& safety, pensions, specialist industry training, etc - which are very hard

to put together well.

And union membership is remarkably cheap (until management recognises the

union, that is).

A new media start-up would have to do very well from the word go to match

this.

There are new media trade bodies which are making a beginning from a

different starting point, like BIMA, http://www.bima.co.uk, but so far from

what I've seen I'm less impressed by these.


Toby Hopkins

Account Manager

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From: Geoff Inns[SMTP:geoff [dot] innsquestico [dot] co [dot] uk]

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Reply To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Sent: 	27 November 2000 14:20

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To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: 	UKNM: New Media Unions

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> Is a new media union in place?  Not so much for maintaining a 39 hour week

> or lobbying for pay, but more for providing useful services for employees

> of

> small and innovative companies that cannot  otherwise afford them. For

> example, using a group presence to instigate pension and private health

> schemes - a co-operative if you like. It could kitemark new media

> training,

> possibly exist as a third party arbiter in certain cases. Lots of things

> that could be done, and the industry is approaching a size where these

> things will become useful.

>

> Anyone have thoughts or experiences on this?



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