Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
In this week's mailing:
* Labour website of the year - 10th annual competition
* Pakistan: Urgent appeal from Coca-Cola workers
* Russia: GM backs down
* Radio LabourStart - the podcast
* A guide to union films
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LABOUR WEBSITE OF THE YEAR - 10TH ANNUAL COMPETITION
What's the best union website in the world? Is it your union's?
For the 10th year in a row, LabourStart is sponsoring the Labour Website of the Year competition and every trade union website is eligible. Last year, nearly 7,000 of you voted; this year we expect an even larger turnout.
To cast your vote, go here:
http://www.labourstart.org/lwsoty/index2007.html
And make sure to spread the word in your union!
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PAKISTAN: URGENT APPEAL FROM COCA-COLA WORKERS
The IUF is calling for a massive world-wide protest against Coca-Cola's vicious attacks on trade union rights in Pakistan. For full details, and to send off your message, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/v8ywc
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RUSSIA: GM BACKS DOWN
Another LabourStart campaign draws to a successful conclusion as the independent union of workers in Russia's GM-AVTOVAZ tells us that the company management is now beginning discussions of the situation with its European employees forum. The union is asking us to suspend the campaign for now, but we will resume it if the company does not respect workers' rights. All our remaining active campaigns in all languages can be found here:
http://www.labourstart.org/actnow.shtml
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RADIO LABOURSTART - THE PODCAST
Radio LabourStart has been relaunched in a new and more accessible format. You can now listen to labour radio broadcasts on your PC or MP3 player (such as an Apple iPod) in three different ways:
1. Go to http://radio.labourstart.org and follow the instructions to listen to our podcast, or
2. Go to the same page and just click on any of the broadcasts to beginning listening, or
3. Hear any of these stories just by clicking on them when you spot them in LabourStart's main news pages
We'll be expanding Radio LabourStart over the next few days and weeks, so if your union had produced audio content in MP3 format, let us know.
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A GUIDE TO UNION FILMS
With the holiday season behind us, it's now time to get the gifts we really want -- which is why we're resuming LabourStart's book of the week feature. By buying books from our unionized partners, you are helping to support LabourStart's work in in 2007.
This week our featured title is "Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff," a guide to films about labour. It's by Tom Zaniello who is himself a guide to films about labour -- and this book is the expanded edition that includes not only the films you know (e.g., "Norma Rae") but the ones you don't. If you love films, you must own this book. Click here for more details and to order copies for yourself and your fellow trade unionists:
http://www.labourstart.org/bookoftheweek/
Thanks -- and now, go vote for the website of the year!
Eric Lee
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