Inside LabourStart

Campaigns: Our two new campaigns have taken off. The campaign in support of Malaysian workers making products for Apple has 4,465 supporters. Our campaign backing Turkish teachers had 3,537 supporters. Both can reach 5,000 supporters if we all push them to members of our unions.

Translators: Each week we’ve reached out to a different mailing list for a different language and each time, we’ve managed to recruit at least on new correspondent or translator to help revive LabourStart’s presence in that language. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve recruited new members of teams for Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Japanese and now — Korean.

Correspondents: In addition, we’ve recruited new correspondents in Germany and Nigeria.

Mailing lists: We’re testing a new signup form on our home page for people to join our mailing lists. Nearly everyone who does, does so by supporting one of our campaigns, but we’ve been asked to offer this option too. This week, we added 335 new subscribers to our lists, with large groups for the English and Turkish lists.

Donations: We received generous donations from BCGFEU (Canada) and IUF.

T-shirts: We’re getting ready to launch another t-shirt fundraising campaign, probably timed so people will have the shirts for May Day. We’ve just confirmed that the t-shirts are union-made. More details soon.

Small fixes: There had been a problem on our home page with the link for states and provinces; this is now fixed.