Unions ‘ambushed’ at international labour conference in Geneva – what we can do
News broke last night that employers were going to block all discussion of workers’ rights violations for the first time ever at the International Labour Conference which is held every year in Geneva. Here is what LabourStart is doing about it:
- Last night, news stories were posted to the website – given a top global priority.
- Emails were exchanged with figures in a couple of the global union federations about the possibility of a campaign.
- Links to statements by the ITUC and 3 GUFs were posted by me to UnionBook, and automatically to Twitter and my Facebook status.
- LabourStart’s own Twitter feed gets 4 postings, one after the other, to our 6,437 followers. Re-tweeting begins immediately, with the British TUC doing the first.
- On Facebook, links were posted to the LabourStart page (4,516 likes).
- I also changed theFacebook banner graphic to now look like this.
- Marc Belanger has produced an excellent broadcast for Radio Labour devoted solely to this – I’m now giving that some extra publicity as well.
More soon …
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ITUC and GUF page links on this being tweeted on the Canadian feeds, an article for Our Times magazine based on Marc’s material and the ITUC site branded as a LabourStart piece.
Only the Belgian FGTB and CSC union sites have run articles (twitted). ITUC have put up a translation with yesterday’s date, June 5 (also twitted). As usual, have to leave up to a week for the other GUFs to post backdated translations of their articles. Not surprisingly, have seen no press reports on this in French.
IE have posted this afternoon and dated it from yesterday.