We come to the rescue of Turkish unions – and revive an important part of LabourStart
I had an email message yesterday from our comrades in Turkey reporting on the deaths of hundreds of miners in Soma, which they posted to their union website in English. I immediately made it a top global labour news story on LabourStart — and then learned from them that their website had been hacked and their statement was no longer available.
With a general strike looming in Turkey, I asked them to send me the text of their statement — and then I built (from scratch) a new version of our Labour News Network which you can see here:
http://labournewsnetwork.wordpress.com/
This allowed our readers around the world to see the Turkish unions’ statement, even though their own website was down.
The Labour News Network is something we tried some years back as a way to offer unions a way to post content to LabourStart even if they have no website. It could be particularly useful for reports from the field — e.g., in future worker-correspondents could post reports, including photos and videos, directly from the field.
This is something we can discuss in Berlin and afterwards …
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With more and more news sources restricting access to paid users, it would be good to have a multilingual independant trade union “news agency” where all sorts of union members could post news on their actions. But this news also needs translating to languages where union news is already less available in the meanstream sources.