Likened by some to a plague of locusts, private equity funds have emerged as major owners of companies in the IUF and other manufacturing and service sectors. The top global buyout funds now control more overseas assets, and employ more workers, than the traditionally ranked leading TNCs. Trillions of dollars in recent years have gone into acquiring, restructuring and disposing of the companies, often with a catastrophic impact on employment and working conditions. With 2007 now being talked about as the year of the hundred billion dollar "deal", leveraged buyouts cast a long shadow over our sectors and the global economy as a whole.

Unions internationally are now responding and fighting back. The IUF has opened a new web site - Private Equity Buyout Watch - to strengthen our collective response. On the site, you'll find news of private equity developments and acquisitions in the IUF sectors, reports on union campaigns, organizing and bargaining strategies in response to leveraged buyouts, and updates on key developments in the campaign to contain and roll back private equity through political and regulatory tools.

The Workplace Bullying Site which you are now reading is a non profit site working to provide a legal resource to those working against bullying or harassment of any kind in the workplace. It has not been updated in some time however so you should not rely on it! It is quite possible and even very likely that the law has been updated since the information in this site was written. Please seek advice from your trade union or a qualified solicitor instead. If you have household insurance you will probably find that the proteciton of your job in this way is covered by your household insurance in any event!

The Mission of the California Healthy Workplace Advocates Is to Raise Public Awareness and Compel our State to Correct and Prevent Abusive Work Environments Through Legislation.

The WBI is the sole North American nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of Workplace Bullying through education, research and technical assistance to lawmakers. BullyBusters is the affiliated activity through which we coordinate nationally the various grassroots state inititiatives to introduce and pass the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill.

Labor Union Resources is designed to provide help to U.S. Workers in their efforts at organizing themselves and their co-workers into labor unions.  It is also a resource for Union Leaders to assist in their operations, organizing, and bargaining efforts.

The purpose of LaborTech is to bring together labor video, computer and media activists in the US and from around the world to build and develop labor communication technology and media. The first conference was held in 1990 and they have been held throughout the United States as well as Canada and Russia. Labor Media conferences are also held in Seoul. We believe that a critical task for labor is building a labor communication media movement that can tell our stories and break the corporate information blockade in every corner of the world.

It's time the truth got out.  Anti-union organizations and for-profit 'unionbusting' consultants have greatly contributed to workers experiencing enormous obstacles when trying to form unions.  The rise of these groups over the last few decades, their multi-million dollar budgets, and their escalating attacks are no coincidence:  it's the result of a decades-long plan from right-wing ideologues bent on dismantling labor organizations responsible for advancing the social and economic interests of America's workers.