Inside LabourStart

Afghanistan: We don’t often get news stories from here, but IndustriALL had something to report, so we gave it publicity both on our home page and on social media.

Australia: We added one more correspondent this week.

Colombia: IndustriALL had a major story about continuing violence; we shared it very widely.

Finland: Our current campaigns are now in Finnish and we’ve done our first mailings to the Finnish list in a very long time.

Iran: We shared widely a story about North American teamsters supporting their brothers and sisters in Iran.

Spain: Members of the LabourStart Executive met in Barcelona, at the regional headquarters of the CCOO union. They met with officials from both CCOO and UGT.

Thailand: We added a new correspondent.

Turkey: We launched a major new campaign last week in support of workers at Istanbul’s new airport, at the request of their national trade union centre, DISK. After less than three days online, the campaign has over 5,500 supporters and appears in 10 languages, with more on the way.

UK: We added another new correspondent. The McStrike at McDonald’s and other restaurants is given wide promotion on our site and on social media.

USA: We share Unite Here’s Marriott campaign as LS top story, and on social media. We also shared the IUF’s story and other stories about this strike widely on social media. We added one new correspondent from the USA this week.

Zimbabwe: We shared the ITUC’s story about anti-union repression widely on our site and on social media.

Google+: Google has announced plans to shut down its social network, which failed to challenge Facebook’s dominance successfully, and we’ve deleted links to our dormant page there from all pages on our site. If, however, you still spot one of these links, please let us know.