Jun
01
2023
0

Ads, Arabic, Cambodia, Campaigns, Fundraising, Global Solidarity Conference followup, 17,109 news stories – another quiet week at LabourStart

Advertising: We had ad campaigns on both Microsoft and Facebook but with disappointing results, so both have been suspended.  We need to have a re-think about how we promote our Belarus campaign more effectively.

Arabic: We’ve migrated our Arabic language mailing list from Mailjet to a different provider, as Mailjet handled right-to-left languages quite poorly.  And we did our first Arabic language mailing for a long time — in support of the Belarus campaign.  Thank you Assaf for the translation!

Cambodia: We shared Eric Lee’s article about the jailing of a woman trade union leader — but so far we have not been asked to help with a campaign (we did reach out).  The Australian Council of Trade Unions already has an online campaign going.  The article was also posted by the Svensson Foundation in Norway.

Campaigns – Belarus: The campaign is now in Arabic.  The campaign has now also been translated into Polish, but we are awaiting the translation of the mass mailing as well.

Campaigns – Georgia: The Wolt campaign is now in Polish.  Waiting for the mass mailing text to be translated.

Fundraising: The last translated fundraising mailings have now gone out — to our Portuguese, Hungarian and Polish lists.  So far, the mailing went out in 12 languages, but unfortunately it has not yet been translated into German.

Global Solidarity Conference: The Georgian Trade Union Confederation released an excellent video which we’ve shared widely. We also wrote to all the conference participants asking those who spoke in plenaries or workshops to share their texts for a possible book.  (If we don’t publish a book, we will find a way to share the texts online.)

News: As we reported today across social media, LabourStart shared 17,109 news stories in the first five months of 2023 — that’s an average of 3,421 per month, or over 113 per day.  Thank you to all our volunteer correspondents!

Jun
01
2023
0

LabourStart in Numbers: 1 June 2023

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of March (NB: WE HAVE MISSED TWO MONTHLY REPORTS).  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 83714-83432

French: 7586-7546

German: 5957-5930

Spanish: 5550-5538

Turkish: 4412

Korean: 3320

Italian: 3110-3100

Russian: 2702-2690

Norwegian: 2193-2180

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1534-1527

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  293-288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 901

Creole:  11

Czech: 61-60

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 188-186

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  475-472

Georgian:  156-141

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  295-293

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  183-180

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 970-953

Portuguese: 1291-1290

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  669

LabourStart Translators:  91

Africa Caucus:  63

 

FLICKR:

Members:  839-838

Photos:  10211-10067

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  127-124

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.  Authority for the LabourStart Brasil page has been devolved to a volunteer in Brazil.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13836-13764

Global Labour News and Information: 8968-8944

LabourStart UK likes:  unavailable-2137

LabourStart Francophone: 607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: unavailable-500

LabourStart Brasil:  unavailable-552

LabourStart Turkce:  unavailable-2116

LabourStart TV likes: unavailable-443

LabourStart TV follows:  unavailable-454

LabourStart Vostok:  unavailable-119

LabourStart Esperanto:  unavailable-18

LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2603-2600

Page: 263-249

 

TWITTER:

Since the last Numbers report the Portuguese, Spanish and Canada-EN accounts have been devolved to volunteers in Brazil, Spain and Canada.  As a result changes to tweet frequency and format have been introduced.  This may have had an effect on our numbers.

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.

We experienced some decline in accounts that usually experience slow growth.  This may be the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Mastodon).

Global English: 40470-40479

Canada English: 23357-23493

Global Portuguese: 10986-11206

Global Spanish: 10738-10645

Australia: 10588-10658

USA: 5206-5251

Canada French: 3372-3267

Russian: 47

Hebrew:  48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 335 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 22 Placeholder and not yet active.

 

 

Written by derek in: Mailing list,Social networks,Twitter |
May
18
2023
0

28 days later …

The LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference is now behind us.  There’s a summary of what happened here.

In addition, in the last four weeks …

  • Mailing lists: We’ve had problems with right-to-left languages using MailJet.  We’ve now tested Hebrew on a new service and it seems to work well.  We’ll migrate our Arabic and Farsi lists there soon.
  • Finances: The conference cost us considerably more than we were planning (unexpected costs for hiring the hall, interpretation equipment rental, etc) and we did a successful emergency fundraiser to cover those costs.
  • Advertising: To publicise our Belarus campaign we’ve started our first paid advertising campaign in a very long time.  We are initially using Microsoft, but have also applied to use Facebook again.  That campaign is now up to 6,420 but it could be much higher.
  • Georgia campaign: Just before the conference opened we launched a campaign in support of Wolt workers in Georgia.  Today it has 5,080 supporters.
  • Upcoming campaigns: We are expecting campaign proposals shortly from unions in Namibia and Israel.

 

 

 

Mar
03
2023
0

Global Solidarity Conference – just 8 weeks to go!

Our latest graphic advertisement for the conference, shared widely today on social media.

Global Solidarity Conference: This conference is continuing to attract new registrants and new ideas for content (workshops and plenary sessions). As of today, we have 142 people registered from 50 countries; of those 23 are from Georgia and 119 from abroad. We expect these numbers to grow siginificantly in the next few weeks. Eric will be in Georgia from 12 March for two weeks and will work closely with the Georgian Trade Union Confederation to ensure the conference’s success.

Poland IKEA campaign: This campaign had 6,242 supporters last week; this has grown to 6,704. We are still missing translations into some key languages, including German and French.

Donations: The Norwegian union Industri Energi has made another very generous donation to LabourStart.

Campaigns: With the agreement of the union in Canada (ACTRA), we have closed down the campaign there.

Mailing lists: Boosted by the Poland IKEA campaign, we added 319 new subscribers to our lists this week — with 209 of those going to the English list and the Polish list growing by 67.

Programming: We continue to make small improvements to the functioning of LabourStart. On the page showing which correspondents have posted news today, we used to show only the total number for this month — now it’s also showing the total for the whole year so far.  In the first two months of 2023, our volunteer correspondents posted over 6,500 news stories.

Written by admin in: 2023 conference,Campaigns,Mailing list |
Mar
01
2023
0

LabourStart in Numbers: 1 March 2023

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of last month.  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 83432-83088

French: 7546

German: 5930

Spanish: 5538-5534

Turkish: 4412

Korean: 3320

Italian: 3100-3095

Russian: 2690

Norwegian: 2180-2171

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1527-1502

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 901

Creole:  11

Czech: 60

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 186

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  472

Georgian:  141

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  293

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  180

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 953-842

Portuguese: 1290

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  669

LabourStart Translators:  91-93

Africa Caucus:  63

 

FLICKR:

Members:  838

Photos:  10067-10060

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  124-122

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13764-13723

Global Labour News and Information: 8944-8940

LabourStart UK likes:  2137

LabourStart Francophone: 607 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 500

LabourStart Brasil:  552-553

LabourStart Turkce:  2116

LabourStart TV likes: 443

LabourStart TV follows:  454

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Nepal:  7-6 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2600

Page: 249-247

 

TWITTER:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts, with the exception of the Canada-French account.

We experienced some decline in accounts that usually grow even without any interventon.  This may be the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Mastodon).

 

Global English: 40479-40338

Canada English: 23493-23517

Global Portuguese: 11206

Global Spanish: 10645-10633

Australia: 10658-10667

USA: 5251-5261

Canada French: 3267-3047

Russian: 47

Hebrew:  48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508-507 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 335 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 22 Placeholder and not yet active.

Written by derek in: Mailing list,Social networks,Twitter |
Feb
02
2023
0

LabourStart in Numbers: 1 February 2023

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of last month.  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 83088-83067

French: 7546

German: 5930-5842

Spanish: 5534

Turkish: 4412-4169

Korean: 3320

Italian: 3095

Russian: 2690

Norwegian: 2171-2161

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1502

 

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 901

Creole:  11

Czech: 60

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 186

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  472

Georgian:  141

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  293

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  180

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 842

Portuguese: 1290

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

 

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  669-668

LabourStart Translators:  93-91

Africa Caucus:  63

 

FLICKR:

Members:  838

Photos:  10060-10007

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  125-122

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

I was unable to access Facebook on the date of this report.

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2600-2603

Page: 247-242

 

TWITTER:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these  accounts.

Slow growth and losses, especially the USA account’s continuing decline, can be attributed to users’ response to Musk’s takeover of the site.

 

Global English: 40338-39076

Canada English: 23517-23251

Portuguese: 11206-11060

Global Spanish: 10633-10468

Australia: 10667-10584

USA: 5261-5267

Canada French: 3047-3046

Russian: 47

Hebrew:  48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 508-507 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 335 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 22 Placeholder and not yet active.

 

 

Written by derek in: Mailing list,Social networks,Twitter |
Jan
01
2023
0

LabourStart in Numbers: 1 January 2023

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of last month.  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 83067-82457

French: 7546-7523

German: 5842

Spanish: 5534-5505

Turkish: 4169

Korean: 3320

Italian: 3095

Russian: 2690

Norwegian: 2161

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1502

 

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 901

Creole:  11

Czech: 60

Danish: 93

Esperanto: 186-182

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  472

Georgian:  141

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  293

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  180

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 842

Portuguese: 1290

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  668-666

LabourStart Translators:  91

Africa Caucus:  63

 

FLICKR:

Members:  838-839

Photos:  10007-9980

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  122-121

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13723-13717

LabourStart.org page follows: 14678

Global Labour News and Information: 8940-8956

LabourStart UK likes:  page unavailable

LabourStart UK follows:  2171

LabourStart Francophone: 607-590 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 500-496

LabourStart Brasil:  553-552

LabourStart Turkce:  2116

LabourStart TV likes: 443-447

LabourStart TV follows:  454

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Nepal:  6 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2603

Page: 242-226

 

TWITTER:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these  accounts with the exception of the Global English account which received occasional attention.

Slow growth and losses, especially the USA account’s continuing decline, can be attributed to users’ response to Musk’s takeover of the site.

Global English: 39076

Canada English: 23251-22962

Portuguese: 11060-11002

Global Spanish: 10468-10319

Australia: 10584-10581

USA: 5267-5300

Canada French: 3046-3061

Russian: 47

Hebrew:  48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 507 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 335 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 22 Placeholder and not yet active.

Dec
30
2022
0

Last post from 2022

The final week of 2022 was destined to be a relatively quiet one as many union offices shut down for the holiday.

Nevertheless, we did a few things at LabourStart …

  • We sent out an end-of-year mailing to all our correspondents. This encouraged them to contact us if they’re having difficulty logging in to post news, to help recruit new correspondents and to publicise our news page more widely.
  • Our mailing lists grew this week as we added 52 more subscribers from the new campaign supporters.
  • We did more work to publicise our Belarus campaign across social media. That campaign now has 7,938 supporters — a gain of 50 in the last week. We also shared widely the ITUC statement condemning the sentences handed down to the jailed leaders of the trade union movement in that country. (Unfortunately the ITUC has not yet translated the statement, so it’s only in English.)
  • We continued work fixing LabourStart’s back-end. This week that included dealing with a bug in the caption for our photo-of-the-day feature, as well as problems with character encoding on our home page for some Spanish-language stories. We continued work creating new and fixed RSS feeds for a number of countries. Unfortunately, not all of these yet function correctly, but we’re continuing the work.
  • We continued this week with discussions with our partners in Georgia in the run-up to our upcoming Global Solidarity Conference at the end of April.

In 2023 we’re looking forward to working harder and smarter to defend workers’ rights and rebuild union power all over the world. Thanks to all of you for all that you do — and happy new year!

Dec
01
2022
0

LabourStart in Numbers: 1 December 2022

There was no report for 1 November so the prior totals are all those current on 1 October.

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the first day of last month.  Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since last month.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

 

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 82457

French: 7523-7490

German: 5842-5796

Spanish: 5505

Turkish: 4169

Korean: 3320-3311

Italian: 3095-3091

Russian: 2690-2686

Norwegian: 2161-2142

Romanian:  1771

Dutch: 1502-1492

The others:

Arabic:  821

Belarusian:  288

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 901-899

Creole:  11

Czech: 60

Danish: 93-92

Esperanto: 182-180

Farsi:  207

Finnish:  472-469

Georgian:  141-135

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  293-292

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  180-179

Indonesian:  460

Japanese: 398

Lithuanian:  63

Malaysian: 21

Polish: 842

Portuguese: 1290-1287

Punjabi:  2

Sinhalese: 1

Slovakian: 15

Swedish: 950-947

Tagalog: 183-159

Thai:  152

Ukrainian: 493-487

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive and Interns:  12

LabourStart Correspondents:  666-665

LabourStart Translators:  91-87

Africa Caucus:  63

 

FLICKR:

Members:  839-837

Photos:  9980-9899

 

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  121-125

 

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  13717-13709

LabourStart.org page follows: 14678-14668

Global Labour News and Information: 8956-9027

LabourStart UK likes:  page unavailable

LabourStart UK follows:  2171

LabourStart Francophone: 590 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 496

LabourStart Brasil:  552-508

LabourStart Turkce:  2116-2126

LabourStart TV likes: 447-441

LabourStart TV follows:  454

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Nepal:  6 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

 

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group: 2603-2588

Page: 226-216

 

TWITTER:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these  accounts.  Some accounts’ slow growth and losses, especially the USA account’s decline, can be attributed to users’ response to Musk’s takeover of the site.

Global English: 39076-38225

Canada English: 22962-22601

Portuguese: 11002-10687

Global Spanish: 10319-10064

Australia: 10581-9965

USA: 5300-5435

Canada French: 3061-3114

Russian: 47-46

Hebrew:  48 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 507-508 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 335 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341-350 (last tweet 2015)

French: 224-227 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 22 Placeholder and not yet active.

 

 

Nov
24
2022
0

Belarus, Turkey campaigns go live

I’m a bit late with this update – sorry.

Our new Belarus campaign went live on 12 November, appears in 15 languages and currently has 6,906 supporters.

The Marlboro campaign (Turkey) finally went live to all our lists in early November. It too appears in 15 languages and has 5,646 supporters.

The Philippines campaign had just 2,875 supporters last month; it’s now up to 4,495.

We posted our first campaign ever in Greek.

Our mailing lists are growing. In November we added 753 new subscribers, with hundreds of new subscribers to both our English and Turkish lists.

Following the crisis in Twitter, we created a LabourStart account on Mastodon, the free, open source alternative. Our account is called @labourstart@union.place and as of this morning we have 70 followers.

We discovered a problem if one person did multiple translations of a campaign; this has now been fixed.

In late October in Kvareli, Georgia Eric spoke to an audience of 50 young Georgian activists about the trade union movement at an event funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Eric also met with the Georgian Trade Union Confederation and three NGOs in Tbilisi to discuss our upcoming Global Solidarity Conference, which is currently scheduled for 28 April 2023.  He also visited two universities that might host the event.

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