Yesterday, we covered three bills in Congress championed by the National Retail Federation that would require online marketplaces to keep extensive records on merchants and, on behalf of the government, secretly investigate those suspected of selling stolen goods. Trying to shore up support, a representative for the NRF compared online merchants to drug addicts who could help but steal to support their eBay habit.
Teamsters Union and Service Employees International Union Leave Labor Federation
Two unions have dropped out of the labor federation to form their own group, the Change to Win Coalition. These two unions are the Teamsters Union and the Service Employees International Union.
Two Unions Leave Labor Federation, Two More May Join Them
The Teamsters Union and the Service Employees International Union have withdrawn from the labor federation to form their own group, the Change to Win Coalition.
Four Unions Boycott AFL-CIO Convention, May Leave Federation
Four major unions are boycotting the AFL-CIO’s constitutional convention beginning in Chicago today. They are expected to leave the labor federation, and are supposed to announce their plans today.
AOL Launches Enterprise Federation Program To Connect Corporate Users
America Online, Inc., the world’s leading interactive services company, today announced that it has launched the AOL Enterprise Federation Partner (EFP) program to help communities of at-work instant messaging users connect and communicate in real time.
Identity Federation: The Backbone of On Demand
When we understand that the key principle of On Demand is ‘straight through processing’, where business processes can execute in their entirety across multiple systems in multiple companies instanteously, in ‘real-time’, we can clearly see that the keystone to On Demand is Identity Federation. It provides the platform to achieve this through engendering a singular semantic architecture that can be used to consistently describe and therefore integrate workflow.