Zurich, Switzerland: The world's first trade union for the New Economy has been founded: "//syndikat". It's a trade union for freelancers and employees in the IT sector -- web publishers, consulting and advertising professionals. For a start, there are 200 members, and the goal is to have 10,000 members until 2003. (60,000 people work in the Swiss IT sector.) The new trade union has organizatational and financial support from the industry&construction trade union, and wants to lobby for fair wages in the IT sector.
Website: http://www.syndikat.ch (in German and French)
