Davide and Goliath
Friday, June 27th, 2008Worrying news out of Italy for us labor-geeks. Davide Barillari, a rep with IBM Italy, and one of the prime movers behind the international web-based linking and virtual world protests of the last year, is concerned his union may be trying to sideline his attempts to evangelise for the transition to a 2.0 organisation, by removing him from international responsibilities through a snap works council election.
He feels so strongly about this that he’s set up a blog (”WE trust in Davide“) and an online petition to give his side of the story. He thinks he’s probably been trying to move the union too far too fast – not to mention irking his employer – and this is the reaction to it. (more…)
