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
June 15-16 : Wall Street, Mainstream Media Still Clueless, Groupama Wins Leg 8
photo : Paul Todd, Associated Press
The investigation into the Oakland Police Department's actions
against Occupy Oakland remains front and center. The former Baltimore
Police Chief overseeing the investigation, Thomas Frazier,
criticizes OPD at length, faulting police for “failing to
adequately plan for the Oct. 25 demonstration" at which Iraq vet Scott
Olsen was injured by a bean-bag projectile. Frazier writes of the
department's use of less-than-lethal weapons that were “outdated
and dangerous. “ Mayor Quan says the city is “unafraid of
the truth” and has been trying to reform the police department for
decades. San
Jose Mercury News
June 13, 2012 : Russia Rally, Occupy SEC Urges Senate Committee on Dimon
When tens of thousands demonstrate against the system in the United States, it occasions media hand-wringing over the demise of a movement, and commentary over how the demonstrators have failed to achieve anything.
Not so when the same rally takes place in Russia.
Upwards of 50,000 clog the streets of Moscow to demand reforms from/to Putin's strongman government, undeterred by threats of enormous fines for participation, and in spite of having speakers brought before an “investigative board.”
June 12, 2012 : Oakland Roils, Does Occupy Need to Get Back?
What
is Occupy and what is not? Tens of thousands of protesters gather in
the middle of Moscow to protest Putin's iron-fisted rule and for a
more democratic society. For activists, attending demonstrations
carries risks – more than being pepper-sprayed. The Kremlin
denounces rising radicalism and says $9,000 fines for any one
attending rallies that “cause harm to people or property.” A
stiff fine given the average Russian yearly salary amounts to less.
Several leading activists called before an Investigative Committee on
an alleged criminal case, an attempt to deprive the event of its
headline speakers. NY
Times
June 11, 2012 : Berrigan, Packard : Priests Belong with the 99%
Growing impatience. Quebec Support.
Occupy Re-brand? Father Daniel Berrigan urges street protest and
emphasizes community. Bishop George Packard faces judge today.
When the mainstream media needs Occupy-related content, they sort and sift through a) the meaning of Occupy and 2) lay wagers / speculate about its demise. However when key Salon Occupy Blogger and Brooklyn denizen Natasha Lennard asks whether its time to “retire the Occupy brand,” we take notice.
Lennard, who penned the famous piece “Why I left the mainstream media,” and has endured the slings and arrows fired by blowhards Briebart, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and Beck, says the term “Occupy” is not going away, but may end up being recast as a tactic for a movement, as opposed to being its label. Salon.com
June 8, 2012 : Continental Congress 2.0 is July 4th, Occupy Suit Advances
The legal machine grinds on : OWS protesters arrested in last year's vast Brooklyn Bridge rally may go forward with their claims against the NYPD but U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff dismisses Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commish Ray Kelly from the suit. OWS is claiming NYPD conducts “false arrests” on made-up charges to clear the street and spare the inconvenience. With the general of “his own private army” excused from the proceedings, the ruling creates the curious case of the 99% suing the 99%,. Washington Post
