Inside LabourStart

Podcasts: We’ve resumed our podcasts after a gap of about a month; two new interviews were recorded, one of which has now been posted. That interview, with Judith Kirton-Darling of IndustriAll Europe, is already our second most-popular podcast of the last three months after just one day online. We are waiting to hear back from three trade unionists who we invited for interviews.

Mailing lists: To cut our costs we have been looking into alternatives to the very expensive MailChimp. We will be testing using Mailjet again, at least for the English list.

Campaigns: We are likely to shortly resume campaigns following an email conversation with the International Federation of Journalists. We also offered campaigns to IUF, the Education International and IndustriAll Europe and are awaiting their response.

LabourStart Jobs: Canadian jobs continue to dominate this page, as very few correspondents have been posting any. We re-sent the mailing to all correspondents about this, which first went out in February.

Today in Labour History: For some time now we have had issues with updating records here — this is now well on the way to being fixed.

T-shirts: We have begun work on getting another batch of shirts printed and sold by a unionised place in the USA at a much lower cost than our previous efforts.

Books: A review of sales of books we print using Amazon KDP (including ebooks) shows that we sold about 6,500 of these in the last 12 years, earning over £3,000 for LabourStart. We have three new books in the pipeline and will ramp up efforts to get them all published this year. Our best-selling title is Solidarity: Selected Essays by Dan Gallin, which sold 1,045 copies.

Labour films: We are helping out a British trade unionist who has made a short film about workers on strike in the UK.