Inside LabourStart

Algeria campaign: Our newest campaign, launched on 25 February, now has 3,785 supporters and appears in 14 languages.  Please share this widely.

New campaigns:  We have possible new campaigns coming up from Taiwan (migrant workers) and Canada (artificial intelligence).  Stay tuned!

Campaign followup: We were asked by EPSU to do a special mailing to people who supported a campaign from a couple of years ago — and were able to do this.

News: Our volunteer correspondents have posted 2,203 news stories so far in March, averaging more than 110 per day.

T-shirts: As promised, on 11 March we launched another May Day t-shirt with the slogan ‘Workers rights are human rights’. We’ve sold several dozen of these but must sell many more.  Make sure to order yours before 31 March, which is when the campaign ends.

Mailing lists:  Our lists continue to grow.  We added 247 new subscribers yesterday and 165 of those were for our Turkish list.

Our latest campaign.

New campaign: We launched a new campaign together with PSI and IUF in support of a jailed Algerian trade unionist. Translations are pouring in and the campaign has 2,641 supporters — this will grow.

Internationalization: We continue to reach out to our supporters and subscribers trying to maximise the number of languages our campaigns and news appear in. This week, we wrote to our Vietnamese list. Recently followed up with our very large Romanian list, but with no luck so far. We reached out to our Dutch list and received a number of new volunteer translators as a result.  Each week, we pick a new language to revitalise.

International Women’s Day: Thanks to the work of our active correspondents, we ran a very large number of articles marking IWD around the world, promoting this effort across social media.

Donations: The Canadian union BCGEU has once again given us a very generous donation. PSI has also made a very generous pledge.

Campaign page: We made a number of small changes to improve the display of our campaigns and will continue to do so.

FNV campaign: We closed down this campaign after more than three months online; we have not yet heard back from the union.