The UWS Mission
Union Web Services (UWS) provides high quality web site design, database implementation, maintenance services and content development to the labor movement.
- Web Site Design
- Membership Communication & Management Software
- Online Marketing & Search Engine Optimization
Union Web Services (UWS) exists to promote and further the goals of the labor movement by providing 21st century technologies, techniques, and tactics, including online tools that allow unions to reach their members and other constituents in the most cost-effective and direct manner possible. We do this while offering our workers the benefits of union membership. We constantly seek to improve working conditions for our clients and their members. Ultimately, it is our goal that our tools and services will revitalize the labor movement in the US and beyond. All UWS workers are members of Communications Workers of America, Local 1180.
Our Latest Work
July 23, 2012 : In Memoriam : Alexander Cockburn, Aurora Victims
RIP, Alexander Cockburn : We don't normally dawdle or get sentimental but today this space acknowledges its debt to one of its literary “founding fathers” who passed over the weekend - without the world knowing he was sick, working right up to the end. UWS Digital News mourns the passing of long-time “Beat the Devil” journalist/literary provocateur and former Village Voice/Nation/and lately of Counter Punch writer Alexander Cockburn and directs readers to the numerous appreciations available online beginning with NY Times.
July 23, 2012 : In Memoriam : Alexander Cockburn
RIP, Alexander Cockburn
: We don't normally dawdle or get sentimental but today this space
acknowledges its debt to one of its literary “founding fathers”
who passed over the weekend - without the world knowing he was sick,
working right up to the end. UWS Digital News mourns the passing of
long-time “Beat the Devil” journalist/literary provocateur and
former Village Voice/Nation/and lately of Counter Punch writer
Alexander
Cockburn and directs readers to the numerous appreciations
available online beginning with NY
Times.
July 20-21 : NYPD Scores Big Win Over Rev Guard, Are Occupations the New Haight?
To prosecute cases vs. occupiers, DA's
need evidence, and there's a trove of it on America's burgeoning
social networks. They're the essential pathways that convey
information and logistics. Recent decisions have affirmed the
court's right to gain access to an occupier's twitter accounts.
Twitter announces it will use its resources to continue the fight to protect the privacy of user tweets. The real game afoot is the court sees the tweets as being public and therefore not private, protected info. Shifting the onus for defending users onto the company means it won't be able to do it each and every time. The court denied the original tweeter, Malcolm Harris, the legal standing to challenge the request of info from twitter. Allthingsd.com
July 19th, 2012 : Dissecting the Dark Knight, Gitlin and Occupy Live Conference Call
Continuing the dissection of Nolan's Dark Knight Rises, which we suspect takes the Hollywood path of sensationalizing complex issues in favor of high-tech visual cocktails (disclosure : we've yet to see it).
Readers are reminded that Hollywood at it's best is (was) about story and script and, above all, entertainment. Movies are constrained by both a tight narrative format within narrowly prescribed time-frames, as well as the need to return profit margins to their backers. With the biggest films, the mandate is more so. The more ambiguous the message, the broader the appeal, so the logic goes.
July 18, 2012 : America 2012...No Threat is Too Small!
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Dateline : America 2012, where there's no limit on perceived threats. At what point do the cops cross the line between protecting the peace into suppressing the dissent upon which the country was founded?
A short list of the latest threats :
