Inside LabourStart

What follows is a brief summary of highlights followed by the usual long list of numbers.

SUMMARY:

XTitter feeds continue to decline.  Most or all of that can be attributed to our followers abandoning the platform for Bluesky, where our numbers continue to rise despite no concerted effort being made to grow the accounts.

News stories posted per day dropped last month.  This is an annual event as many unions in the global north reduce services and activities during the traditional Christmas-New Year’s holiday period.

The recent surge in campaign requests accounts for the increases in our mailing lists.

Our other numbers remain fairly stable.

THE NUMBERS:

The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the last report. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report.

Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics.  Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.

STORIES POSTED TO OUR NEWS SITE IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS:

February: 3013 (107 per day).

March: 3306 (106 per day)

April: 3219 (107 per day)

MAILING LISTS:

The top 10:

English: 87036-86401

 French: 7187-7170

 Spanish: 5651-5579

German: 5575

Turkish: 4685-4508

Korean: 3197

Italian: 2845-2835

 Russian: 2682

Norwegian: 2036-2025

Romanian:  1730

Dutch: 1587-1437

The others:

Arabic:  768

Azerbaijani:  56

Belarusian:  299

Bulgarian: 17

Chinese: 971-970

Creole:  11

Czech: 58

Danish: 79

Esperanto: 191-189

Farsi:  164

Finnish:  439

Georgian:  181-176

Greek: 54

Hebrew:  262-261

Hindi:  80

Hungarian:  174

Indonesian:  385

Japanese: 388

Lithuanian:  62

Malaysian: 20

Polish: 964

Portuguese: 1276

Punjabi:  2

Serbian:  97

Sinhalese: 1

Slovak: 15

Swedish: 909

Tagalog: 183

Thai:  142

Ukrainian: 493

Vietnamese:  21

Internal:

Executive:  12

Interns and Past Interns:  16

LabourStart ACTIVE Correspondents: 628

LabourStart INACTIVE Correspondents:  853

LabourStart Translators:  109

Africa Caucus:  63

Media Contacts: 69

Donors:  961

BLUESKY:

No efforts were made to increase the number of followers for either account.

Global:  17557-17307

 Canada English-language:  456-438

FLICKR:

Members:  837

Photos:  10395-10403

TELEGRAM:

LabourStart channel:  131

FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

LabourStart.org page likes:  14k, details unavailable

Global Labour News and Information: 9220-9175

LabourStart UK likes:  2k-2.1k, details unavailable

 LabourStart Francophone: 620 (last post February 2021)

LabourStart-de: 489

LabourStart Brasil:  552

LabourStart Turkce:  2k, details unavailable

LabourStart TV followers: 456-461

LabourStart Vostok:  119

LabourStart Italia:  68

LabourStart Esperanto:  18

LabourStart Canada-English: 229-217

 LabourStart Nepal:  7 (last post April 2017)

LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)

LINKEDIN:

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.

Group 2636-2645

 Page: 503-490

PODCASTS:

LabourStart is a member of the US-based Labor Radio / Podcast Network.

Rather than list each podcast and the numbers of times they have been downloaded we will report the five (5) podcasts that have been downloaded the most times to date.

1. 676 downloads: Interview with Mark Hancock, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees re. the union’s recently-adopted “Montreal Declaration” which was drafted in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats against Canada.
2. 526 downloads: Interview with Paul Finch, President of the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU) in Canada.
3. 494 downloads: USA: Interview with Shawna Bader-Blau from the Solidarity Center.
4. 452 downloads: Gen-Secs of two global union federations — Ambet Yuson from Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and David Edwards from the Education International (EI) re. being blocked from entering Palestine.
5. 449 downloads: Interview with Carlos Ching-Hung Wang, the president of the China Steel Express Union (Taiwan).

X (TWITTER as-was):

No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts.  If we wish to maintain our footprint we will have to start doing so again or the erosion of our numbers will continue.  Whether that is possible is another question given the current flight of users from the platform.

We experienced decline in all accounts except the Australian, which grew slightly.  Prior to the exodus to Bluesky all would have usually experienced slow growth without any effort on our part.  This is almost certainly the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Bluesky or Mastodon).

Global English: 35546-35851

Canada English: 20327-20479

Global Portuguese: 9698-9757

Global Spanish: 10109-10214

 Australia: 9207-9297

USA: 4565-4584

Canada French: 3051-3058

Russian: 50

Hebrew:  50 (last tweet 02-2021)

Italian: 472 (last tweet 11-2021)

Swedish: 329 (last tweet 2016)

Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)

French: 205 (last tweet 2018)

German: 120 (last tweet 2018)

Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)

Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)

Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)

South Asia (English): 28 Placeholder and not yet active.