Inside LabourStart

It’s hard to believe that only a month ago, we were worried that soon we’d have no new campaigns on LabourStart, as we were down to just one. All that has now changed, and currently are running no fewer than nine (9) campaigns at once.

Here’s a snapshot of how our campaigns are doing – the number in brackets is where stood 16 days ago, when I last reported to you:

1. France: Rail unions fight against privatisation – 7,124 [7,051]
2. USA: Time for Wendt to negotiate with the union – 6,698 [6,563]
3. Turkey: After nearly a year on the picket lines, it’s time for DPDHL to negotiate with the union – 6,680 [5,373]
4. Korea: Oracle workers on strike – 5,722 [3,503]
5. XPO: Time to talk about your behaviour – 5,452 [4,730]
6. Australia: Exxon Mobil – time for a fair deal for your workers – 5,063 [134]
7. Norway: Sekkingstad and Sund, stop union busting! – 3,966 [-]
8. Shell – Stop cheating contract workers! – 3,065 [-]
9. Canada: Solidarity With Women Striking for a Living Wage! – 1,740 [-]

Canada: At the request of Unifor, we launched a campaign in English and French, targetted only at Canadians.

Georgia: Eric spent a week in Tbilisi, speaking at a conference, and had a chance to meet with three local trade union leaders.

Global: At the request of IndustriALL we launched a time-limited global campaign on support of their campaign at Shell. The campaign will only run in English and only for a few days.

Norway: We launched a major new campaign, with the support of the IUF and the local union NNN.

USA: The terrible Supreme Court “Janus” decision – we have comprehensive coverage on the site, and give special publicity to statements from the ITUC and the GUFs.

Campaigns: We were alerted to a bug in how we had been displaying campaigns. It turns out that while the page is secure (with https), if we include photos without the https the lock icon disappears. This has now been fixed and noted for the future.

Donations: Three Norwegian unions make generous donations to LabourStart. A branch of a major British union also donates £100.

Events calendar: We continue adding events regularly to our calendar, from the USA, UK and elsewhere.

Mailing lists: We publicise our mailing list signup form, which is GDPR compliant (for the English list only at the moment) on social media. We add 203 new subscribers to our lists; 129 are English and 35 are Norwegian, due to the new campaign.