Oct
10
2011
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Oct
07
2011
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Norwegian union announces $86,000 international prize for promotion of union rights

Full details are here. We’ve been assured that people or organizations who have been nominated in previous years are allowed to be nominated again.

Written by admin in: Fund-raising |
Oct
04
2011
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Tuesday afternoon updates

It’s been a busy day …

  • All recent supporters of our campaigns have now been added to our mailing lists on MailChimp – we’re seeing signficant growth for the German list, which indicates that our campaigns are now being promoted there by at least one union.
  • The mass mailing regarding our Egypt campaign has gone out for translation and we’ve gotten translations back already in at least two languages.
  • I’ve done further work on our Wikipedia entry, including trying to create an entry for UnionBook but am encountering some resistance there.
  • I’ve written to comrades in Georgia about getting a Georgian language version of our campaigns up – particularly the current Georgian one.  Am awaiting their reply.
  • Mac Urata at the ITF has agreed to help us get a Japanese version of the campaigns up and running.
  • On UnionBook, I’ve managed to sort comments in Groups in reverse date order – something which people have asked for.
  • I’ve begun the process of creating a secure directory (URLs would begin with https://) on our site – this is needed if we use Facebook for some pages, which has been done for our French version.
  • It’s been suggested that we could get an article about LabourStart published in a left-wing Esperanto magazine; I’ve asked one of our correspondents who speaks the language to take care of this.
  • Using a service called Conduit Mobile I’ve been doing further work on a small, simple UnionBook app for mobile devices.
  • I did extensive work on our newswires today, including getting the French RSS feed to work properly, reviewing the ActNOW RSS feed in French and Norwegian (now fixed), the Health and Safety wire in French (seems OK), and tweaking our new French language newswire for North Africa.  In addition I completed work on migrating all the regional newswires over to our new database – finally.
Oct
03
2011
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New campaign launched

At the request of the ITUC, via the British TUC, we’ve just launched this campaign in support of the passing of a labour law in Egypt.

Written by admin in: Campaigns |
Oct
03
2011
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D-46: Conference preparations moving ahead …

Just some quick updates on our upcoming Global Solidarity Conference in Istanbul.

  • We received some three dozen requests for financial support – about half of them were incomplete.  I’ve written to all those who didn’t complete the form giving them another opportunity to do so.  The form itself is now closed.  I’ve shared a spreadsheet with details with our committee in Turkey and with several senior LabourStart correspondents.  We aim to reach a decision by the end of this week.
  • The Solidarity Center is committed to bringing about a dozen representatives of the new independent trade unions in the Middle East and North Africa.  We should have details this week.  We’re arranging for a Monday meeting, post-conference, for them – in the Taksim Square area.
  • ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow is preparing a video welcome to our conference.  We aim to have it subtitled in Turkish.
  • We’ve reached agreement on a list of workshops which we’ll publish at the end of this week. We also have an agreed timetable and more-or-less have settled on who will be the plenary speakers.
  • We’re still looking into arranging transportation from the conference hotel (in Taksim square) to the conference venue (Petrol Is); this may be done free of charge by the municipality.  If not, we’ll pay for a bus.
  • We now have three bids from different companies regarding interpretation – the first time we’ve ever had to do this at a LabourStart conference.  We’ll need to consider these and reach a decision shortly.
  • The organizing committee in Turkey is proposing a labour history walk around the Taksim square area on Friday before the conference opens, and a possible concert on Saturday evening.  Details to follow.
  • If you have not yet registered to attend, and not yet registered for the hotel, please do so now.
Written by admin in: 2011 conference |
Oct
01
2011
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LabourStart in Numbers

Here are the totals with the last month in brackets (gains of more than 100 are in bold and green):
Mailing lists (with over 100 members)
English: 65,139 [64,165]
French: 3,199 [3,116]
Norwegian: 2,318 [2,343]
Spanish: 2,021 [1,588]
German: 908 [806]
Turkish: 700 [693]
Russian: 597 [518]
Italian: 539 [539]
Polish: 302 [302]
Portuguese: 252 [252]
Chinese: 249 [249]
Dutch: 231 [229]
Swedish: 190 [202]
Finnish: 179 [179]
Danish: 117 [133]
Social networks
UnionBook 2.0 – members: 4,498 [4,291]
Facebook –
Members of LabourStart group: 4,714 [4,399]
Like LabourStart.org page (English): 2,705 [2,550]
Like LabourStart page (French): 79 [65]
Twitter –
English – followers: 4,541 [4,360]
French – followers: 78 [74]
Union group on Flickr: 652 [649]
LinkedIn – LabourStart group: 464 [448]
Website
Correspondents: 916 [900]
Unique visits to the site this month : 503,250 [483,791]
Peak day: 21,625 – 5.9.11
Page views this month: 1,120,845 [1,114,999]

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