Book of the month, labour history, and 3 new campaigns: Another week for LabourStart
Since last Wednesday we’ve had a very busy week …
Chile: We’ve had full coverage of the strike at the world’s largest copper mine, and have publicised that fact across social media.
Egypt: We’ll be exploring the possibility of new campaign with our friends at the CTUWS.
Europe: We’ve continued running with the Fedex/TNT campaign for at least another month, at the request of the ETF.
Hungary: We expect to shortly launch a campaign in support of workers who’ve been forbidden to strike – at the request of the European Transport Workers’ Federation.
Kazakhstan: We closed the campaign in all languages, but may need to do another as the issues have not been resolved.
Malawi: We added a new correspondent from the journalists’ union.
Romania: Our mailing list in Romanian grew by several hundred due to the campaign we’re running in support of Bucharest metro workers.
Sweden: We’ve responded favourably to the request for a campaign and are expecting something quite soon.
Adding news: We’ve cleaned up the pages where correspondents add news, dropping a lot of extraneous material.
Book of the month: We’ve started promoting a book of the month — on our home page, across social media and soon, in a mailing. The authors of ‘Dying for an iPhone‘ are delighted.
Campaigns: We’ve shared a piece Derek wrote — Ten Reasons Why Unions Should Use LabourStart for Online Campaigns — on our home page.
Country news: Our country news page was not rendering correctly on small screens (like smartphones); this has now been fixed.
Donations: We followed up with appeals to several global unions, and BWI committed to a donation again this year.
Internationalisation: Our Hebrew home page had many problems, with far too much English and texts aligning on the wrong side of the page — all of this now fixed this week, as we move to other languages one by one.
LabourStart Jobs: We continue to make progress on this — it’s now multilingual and we’ve two designs for logos, and have registered the domain name labourstartjobs.org. Still working on this.
Today in Labour History: We had problems with character encoding which were screwing up the display of non-English texts — now fixed, as you can see on our home page.
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