 Partnership for Quality
 One of the undoubted union success stories of the last few years has been that of New Zealand's Public Services Association (PSA). With an innovative strategy built on establishing genuine partnership from the workplace up, they have brought workers and consumers together in a push for improvements in the quality of jobs, management practices and public services. The process has reversed years of declining membership, and they have become the country's largest and fastest growing union. For more on this story, click here 
Workplace democracy gone mad
 Anyone who doubts the potential of workplace democracy should read about SEMCO, the Brazilian industrial equipment company. It is a wild and awe-inspiring story, and it shows how far a determined mix of organization and partnership can take us. In the words of CEO Ricardo Semler, "I hope our story will cause other companies to reconsider themselves and their employees... to concentrate on building organisations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges : to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning." For more on this story, click here
(L+M) - SEIU's new relativity
 In the international labour movement US union the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is notorious for its laser focus on organizing. What fewer people realise is that this runs parallel with a drive for industrial partnership. And in an age where capital and production is being globalised, the SEIU is also helping build a new model of networked internationalism. This will be a developing story, and we're going to enjoy following it, because whatever it is that they're doing, it's working! For more on this story, click here
"Relational organizing" at Harvard
 The story of the unionisation of Harvard's clerical and technical workers is an inspiring one on many levels - as much because of the way it was done as the great results that were achieved. The story of the HCTWU (part of AFSCME) may also point to a solution to a critical problem facing unions today: the "representation gap". Why do so many more workers SAY they want to join a union than ever do? Click here for a possible answer.
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