This document proposes the creation of GNUnion, a distributed and organized network designed to empower workers through several collaborative projects. GNUnion would consist of projects like SaysUs to anonymously report workplace issues; LabourLeaks to investigate documents exposing rights violations; UnionUpgrade to support independent unions; and WikiStrike to coordinate direct action. It aims to help precarious workers self-organize using peer-to-peer tools and hack existing systems that exploit worker data and knowledge for emancipation from wage labor. The network is in development and seeking collaborators.

1. GNUnion v 0.1 beta
distributed and organized-
network design, inspired by
GNU and IWW and based
on floss-like collaborative
autonomous projects
- SaysUs
- LabourLeaks
- UnionUpgrade
-ValueChainHacking
- WikiStrike

2. Union form today..
•abandoned the‘Class' struggle
•compromise the working people
• decline in membership while
the working population grew
•means something less then 1% of workers
• is in a terminal crisis and is paralysed
What would new social and networked
emancipatory union look like and act?

3. “The time is past due for new forms of association
that can steer the world away from its destruction
The greatest hacks of our time may be forms of
organising free collective expression, so that
abstraction serves the people” [Wark]
from “Workers of the world unite!” [Marx & Engels, 1848]
to “Hackers of the world, GNUnite!” [Soderberg & Dafermos]
and “Sysadmins of the world, unite!” [Assange]

5. Building the floss p2p tools to
help to self-organize, and empower
- GNUnion concept is inspired by GNU and IWW
For the emancipation from waged slavery,
one big meshwork – (emancipatory ecology) design
based on modularly adjunct functions:
hacking the supy-demand and
-UnionUpgrade (solidarity with independent unions)
- ProductionChainHacking (recovery of workers’
knowledge)
- LabourLeaks (wikileaks type of impact)
- WikiStrike (new forms of direct action)

6. Organizing the un-organizable precarious masses ?
(collectivization through free and
p2p self-expression and self-organisation)
FINDING MISSION
Job search websites, private and public
Employment/waged slavery dealers:
Monsterboard, Glassdoor,…their social networks
HACKING MISSION
Useful tools [like Universal Automation]
Mass campaigns and mobilisations OWS, 15M

9. The Way Out of the Matrix- SaysUs
from anonymous complaint to coordinated action
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Anonymous submitter expression of
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grievances about exploitation, bullying,
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violations of rights, crimes & misdermeanors
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(can include whistleblowing) by:
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employer, government, corporation,
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school, church, product or
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service provider, ...
-Utilize a rating system, collect relevant
data, protect anonyminity, give user choice
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Providing access to each other and
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to tools, expertise, and direct advice
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Legal support networks
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Solidarity networks
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Activism resources and networks
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Online tools and resources
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Sound, video, radio ...
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Self-organizing and Action support
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On-site exchange, networking and deliberation
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Support for further self-empowerment
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Recognize best practices of institutions
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Self-training, how-to, DIY, DIWO....
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10. LabourLeaks.org
Exposing wrongdoings in the workplace
Initially to scan and analyse leaked documents
released by Wikileaks, as well as other groups
like Anonymous, LiveLeaks. We be looking for
large scale violations against producer,
designer, users and consumer rights; such as
stolen data, planned obsolescence, illegal and
dangerous material use, capture and misuse of
user-costumer data including selling the data to
companies, production related threats to
workers and public health. To feed in global
actions or support ongoing union actions.
In Collaboration: https://www.labourleaks.org/
WorkingGroup:
https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/322/labourle
aks

11. UnionUpgrading
GNUnion will help all other forms of unions
at all organizational levels (base-membership-shop
floor level-organization, management) to realize necessary
organizational and networked transformations to become
erempowered organized networks, strongly connected to the
grassroots and society. We provide unions with
resources, links, ties, actions, exchanges, social media
skill-sharing and self-education campaigns.
Workgroup: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/439/unionupgrading

12. Hack the Global Production-Commodity Network
Using global chain mapping tools by
workers
[Mapeo Method] to create a network of
user-
worker-designer communities that can
recover
workers and consumers’ incorporated data
and knowledge [by the management
systems
like Kaizen and Quality Chambers] through
the entire production-commodity network, in
order
to hack the worker-society control
mechanisms.
Workgroup
https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/329/glo
bal-commodity-production-network-
mapping

13. Status of the project
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Developing the concepts
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Building web spaces and collaboration tools
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CoopFunding / P2PSolidFunding
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Presenting status update
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Searching for collaborating projects
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Review ours sites, and give us feedback:
gnunion.wordpress.com (@OneBigMeshwork)
says-us.net (@SaysUs)
labourleaks.org (@LabourLeaks)

14. Spaces for p2p linking
the emancipatory ecologies:
2014
3-6 September Leipzig DeGrowth
24-25 September Brussels AlterSummit
26-27 September Brussels Blockupy
October.? Hamburg ‘Art of Being Many‘ >
Blockupy + commune of Europe
October Monsanto and TTIP protests…
2015
Agora99
WSF Tunis
CCC…