Inside LabourStart

We seem to have missed a week with updates – sorry about that.

ITUC: The arrest of the newly-elected ITUC General Secretary Luca Visentini last Friday in Brussels has rocked the trade union world. Next week the ITUC General Council will decide on the next steps; meanwhile, Visentini has stepped aside. We have provided very extensive coverage in many languages, both on our website and across social media, and will continue to do so.

Mastodon: Growth of our account has slowed. Two weeks ago, just before our webinar, we had 144 followers. Today that’s up to 184. Still, we’re getting lots of great followup to our webinar, including features on Radio Labour and the Union Cities radio show from Washington D.C.

2023 Global Solidarity Conference: We have a call set up for next with our friends in Georgia, and we hope to be able to announce more details of the event soon.

Programming: We continue to make tweaks every day to LabourStart’s software; we are currently working hard to fix our newswires which worked very well for a time but have now broken in some places. We hope to announce good news in the next several days about this. Also, after being informed by a new correspondent in Korea, we made the login for correspondents more secure.

Myanmar: We closed the campaign at the request of BWI. Though it appeared in a record-breaking 25 languages and had the support of nearly all the global unions, it was a fairly small campaign for us.

Belarus: This remains our largest current campaign and is just under 8,000 supporters. We gave the campaign a recent boost and hope to see an increase in the number of supporters.

Backlog: We achieved “inbox 0” again last week, and there is no backlog of campaigns or translations at the moment.