Why become a correspondent
Two participants at our recent conference in Washington asked for a short text they could circulate making the case for people becoming LabourStart correspondents. Here’s what I’ve written today — feel free to use as is, or modify, and circulate.
Why become a LabourStart correspondent
LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, publishes links to some 90,000 union news stories every year.
Those links are added to LabourStart’s database by a network of nearly 700 volunteer correspondents who monitor union websites as well as mainstream news sources and identify union news stories.
In addition to appearing on LabourStart’s website (including the brand new US Edition at http://www.laborstart.us), many of those stories appear on union websites around the world, as LabourStart syndicates its news. Over 200 union websites in the USA take the LabourStart news service, as do 560 other unions around the globe.
To ensure that news from your union — at national, regional or even local level — makes it to LabourStart, you should consider becoming a volunteer correspondent.
It’s easy to sign up – just fill in the form at http://www.labourstart.org/newcorrespondents.shtml
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