Inside LabourStart

Podcasts: We have revived our podcasts.  We released three podcasts in August so far and expect to do several more — we have been in touch with trade union leaders in Africa and Asia, arranging interviews.  All our podcasts are here.

Campaigns: Our Taiwan campaign has 3,022 supporters and appears in 13 languages.  We are hoping to grow this, especially in the Chinese and Tagalog versions.  We have already heard that the employer has been receiving our messages and is complaining to the union about this.  Good.

Climate crisis: We are getting more involved in this, including planning to do some work around COP31 and the People’s Climate Summit in Turkey in November.  In the run-up to that, we have begun tagging news stories on LabourStart as being relevant to the climate crisis and will soon be able to show a page, updated regularly, of these stories.  More details coming soon.

Canadian news page: The French version had a problem with outputting province names in French — this has now been fixed.

Global solidarity conference: We continue to discuss this with potential partners in three countries.  Nothing has been finalised yet.

News: Our volunteer correspondents posted 984 in the first 14 days of August.  This is a time when many unions take a holiday and union websites often feature very little news — so getting an average of over 70 stories a day is excellent work by our volunteers.