The UWS Mission
Union Web Services (UWS) provides high quality web site design, database implementation, maintenance services and content development to the labor movement.
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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 1, 2012 : Quebec Picks Up US Support; Introducing Occupy Rap Candidate
You know your movement or protest is making headway when the world's financial blogs take notice and chastise you for “not taking responsibility” being “leaderless,” and acting out “lawlessness.” Such is the panic the Quebec street protests provoke in blogger Larry Elkin, who gets worked up over the 100,000 who took to the streets May 22nd to celebrate their 100th day of protests.
May 31, 2012 : Chevron Activism, Arizona Prosecutor Stands Up for Occupy
Shareholder activism is a growing tactic for the 99% percent who have been Occupying board rooms and annual meetings. The latest company hit is Chevron, where several resolutions are filed at the company's annual board meeting, including one which attempts to separate the CEO from the board. Other cite the company's “risky business practices,” several of which are outlined by triplepundit.com
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May 30, 2012 : Occupy Pushes Wage Rise, Introducing Lt. Dan, Taylor Michie
Occupy Albany shows
up at the Capitol office of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to
push for a rise in the minimum wage, calling it shameful that 78% of
New Yorkers say they support it but Skelos – who claims “you
shouldn't govern by polls” - refuses to bring it to a vote. Occupy
was told they had chosen the wrong day to confront Skelos, allegedly
on Long Island at the time of the protest. They promised to be back
when the reps are in session and deliver more action(s) on the issue.
Legislativegazette.com
May 29, 2012 : Quebec Rocks On, Occupy the PGA, Assange Interviews OWS
Cities :
Occupy Maine returns to the public sphere, doing some “guerrilla gardening” at a currently abandoned public park, Congress Square Plaza, that may be slated for private development. After the yard work, the group holds an open air General Assembly meeting, with passerby stopping to listen and chime in during the discussion. A local hotel wants to build a ballroom on the property. The forecaster.net
May 25, 2012 : Writer Tells Black Bloc : Cut it Out, Oakland Stays Tense
Across the pond some con-tro-versy
brewing over whether it was St. Paul's Cathedral or the Corporation
of London who authorized police to clear the steps of Christians
praying during the eviction of Occupy London on February 28. The
Canon Pastor of St. Paul's, Michael Colclough, had maintained the
city initiated the move, but the cops who did the removing now say
that's not the case.Ekklesia.co.uk
Add Occupy's “Freedom Fairy' to the list of protesters nation-wide who have had their cases tossed by local judges. Marni Halasa was allegedly impeding pedestrian traffic and was ticketed by NYPD. Halasa claimed she wanted the case to go further so she could publicly defend her First Amendment rights. Video taken by Live Streamer Tim Pool demonstrated that the officer who issued the summons lied in court. Occupy won two other cases this week, in addition to filing a destruction of property suit on behalf of the “People's Library.” Thenation.com
