Inside LabourStart

A few minutes ago the global English-language Twitter account passed the 10,000 followers mark.

We’ve run online actions on behalf of the Canadian wing of the United Steelworkers on a couple of occasions. Here’s their media release on the current campaign.

And here’s a follow-up.

We ran a campaign for about a week on behalf of SEIU members at a chain of funeral homes in Toronto. The campaign was Canada-only, so not many of you will have noticed it. Here’s a thank-you recieved on Frioday, along with a request to close the campaign:

Thank you to our supporters!!!!

SCI (Delmoro Funeral Home) employees and members of SEIU would like to send a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you that supported us in such a difficult process, because of you, THE SUPPORTERS you made it easier knowing we had the following of such a great bunch of people. It’s nice to know that there are still people that care. We would have never made it through this whole ordeal without you and for that WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SEIU makes me proud to be a member!!!!

Sincerely

Ama Gallucci
and the members of SEIU!!!!!

Special thanks to Andy for the translation work on the campaign.

Eric will be travelling with very limited Internet access from Thursday, 25 July through Sunday, 11 August, and again from Thursday 22 August through Tuesday 27 August.

For all LabourStart matters, please write to eddmustill@labourstart.org.

All requests for new campaigns will be received by him.

This banner now appears on the top right column on LabourStart’s global home page in English.

Why?

I’ll go into much greater detail when I tell you about our next book, but basically we’ve always supported open source software, and in the past have helped promote alternative software to the labour movement and so this fits into that long history.

Firefox is part of the broader non-profit, free Mozilla project and is very worthy of our support.

As part of my general de-Googling of my life, I thought I’d look into alternatives to Google Analytics — not that we’ve been using that all that much.

Clicky got some good reviews so I’m experimenting with its use on our site.  After a day or two, I’ll tell you what it tells us — and how it compares to what 1&1 Internet’s stats program tells us.

At the moment, it’s just fun to watch …

Look at the difference – DuckDuckGo and Google – search for “LabourStart”.

I thought comrades might be interested in reading this piece, written for Canada’s independent labour magazine Our Times.

… if the weather is good (like today), you can join me for a walk along the Lee Valley.  Here’s a sample, just 10 minutes walk from the office:

See here.