On Earth, a galaxy alliance was formed... Birth of the first global super-union, says The Guardian:
Amicus, the UK's largest private sector union, has signed agreements with the German engineering union IG-Metall and two of the largest labour organisations in the US, the United Steelworkers and the International Association of Machinists, to prevent companies playing off their workforces in different countries against each other.
About time, too. Without transnational solidarity in unions, the goals of developed-country unions are in line with global capitalist tendencies. In the States, many unions are essentially lobbyists demanding that jobs don't go offshore. If unions are to live up to the tradition from which they sprang, they need to get politically involved in anything affecting workers anywhere - which is to say, everything. American unions had the power to prevent the Iraq invasion, but lacked the solidarity with Iraqi workers necessary to act.
Join a union, and tell your friends to do the same.
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