14.8.97: With some 185,000 workers out, the Teamsters' strike against UPS is attracting global attention. So's their website, which is this week's Labour Website of the Week.This week's Labour Website of the Week is a new public sector union site from the Philippines.
9.4.98: With Australia's war on the waterfront heating up, what better site to win the 65th Labour Website of the Week than the "War on the Wharfies" website? Detailed links and news reports are also to be found, of course, on LabourStart, which is also giving extensive coverage to today's national day of protest by Russian trade unionists.
4.4.98: Labour's Online Bookstore gets updated, including ten new books for 1998 (with some discounted at 20% and 30%), an online forum to discuss labour books, and a new announcements list for the store, which you are invited to join.
2.4.98: May Day is 29 days away, but we're celebrating early: the winner of this week's Labour Website of the Week is an excellent May Day page.
26.3.98: What's been keeping us busy these past 2 weeks has been LabourStart -- but we've also found the time today to select another superb example of how trade unionists are using the Web in this week's Labour Website of the Week -- and to produce a new edition of Global Labournet.
13.3.98: We launch Labour Start: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
12.3.98: Today's Labour Website of the Week goes to the Danish Social Democratic Party, which won the elections yesterday in that country.
11.3.98: We announce the stopping of weekly LabourChats. Click here for details.
8.3.98: A page of Eric Lee's Writings on Labour and the Net is added, going back to the very first articles in 1993.
5.3.98: For some nice pictures of pineapples and bananas, as well as to find out who won the Labour Website of the Week today, click here.
26.2.98: We publish a new edition of Global Labournet, focussing on how trade unions cover -- or do not cover -- labour rights issues on their websites. We also pick the 60th labour website of the week -- a cartoon site!
20.2.98: The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) begins broadcasting content on The Labour Channel.
19.2.98: We select another Labour Website of the Week -- this time the embattled Maritime Union of Australia.
13.2.98: Major update to the Directory of Online Labour Conferences and Communities, including not only additional mailing lists and web forums, but links to sources of free chatrooms, mailing lists, and web forums. Let us know if you use these!
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5.2.98: We pick the 57th Labour Website of the Week -- this time honoring the 31 Critchley strikers, whose struggle now enters its second year.
29.1.98: The Liverpool dockers' dispute is over. We commemorate the event by awarding the Labour Website of the Week to three new pages just put up by Labournet in the UK.
22.1.98: A new edition of Global Labournet is published. Also, we select the 55th Labour Website of the Week -- this time, the websites of two superb labour television programs in North America.
21.1.98: The Labour Channel now also broadcasts using Netscape Netcaster -- meaning that you can now subscribe to the channel using the three major browsers supporting "push" content -- Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and PointCast Networks. If you previously subscribed using PointCast, please see the important announcement on this page.
19.1.98: The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), representing 125,000,000 workers in 141 countries and territories, begins broadcasting content on The Labour Channel.
18.1.98: We re-launch The Labour Channel using both PointCast and Microsoft Active Channels.
16.1.98: We begin broadcasting Labour News from South Korea using Microsoft Active Channels. You must be using Microsoft Internet Explorer to subscribe to this channel.
15.1.98: We name the 54th Labour Website of the Week.
10.1.98: We publish on the web the ICFTU's first statement on the Korean crisis, issued on 8.1.98.
9.1.98:
30.12.97: For our Hebrew readers -- a Hebrew language interface to the Labour Movement and the Internet website.
25.12.97: A holiday season present: 3 winners of the Labour Website of the Week.
18.12.97: It's election day in South Korea, and the leader of the militant independent labour movement is a candidate for President. Guess who's today's Labour Website of the Week?
17.12.97: A new feature at Labour's Online Bookstore -- a list of best selling titles we've sold there in our first year online.
11.12.97: We announce the first Labour Website of the Year.
4.12.97: We not only announce the 49th Labour Website of the Week, but call on visitors to this site to cast their ballots for the Labour Website of the Year, to be announced next week.
In addition, we launch our own internal search engine to review the more than 60 web pages in this site -- you can see it on our home page.
29.11.97: 10 more titles are added to the "New Books" page of Labour's Online Bookstore -- all of them brand-new, December 1997 releases.
27.11.97: The 48th Labour Website of the Week is an incipient global labour radio and television network. Check it out.
23.11.97: The Labour Webmasters' Forum moves -- the new address is: http://www.labournet.org.uk/lnforum/. Important: Do not attempt to post answers to messages from before 23.11.97. This will attempt to send your text to the old server. The Forum is being hosted by Labournet -- thanks to Chris Bailey, Chris Croome and Paul Thomas!
20.11.97: We announce the winner of the 47th Labour Website of the Week.
We also add 25 new titles to Labour's Online Bookstore. These include two US labour history titles with reductions of 30% off cover price, nine more titles coming from around the world, focussing on labour in China, India, Egypt, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The remaining titles include a couple of highly unusual ones -- a book about workers' rights for children, and a guide to being a successful trade union official -- for policemen.
19.11.97: The Solidarity With Korea's Labour Movement page now includes a daily news section.
18.11.97: We publish a new edition of Global Labournet, featuring a reply by PGP founder Phil Zimmermann.
16.11.97: We launch the Solidarity With Korea's Labour Movement website.
13.11.97: We have been online for one year!
6.11.97: The 46th Labour Website of the Week is selected.
31.10.97: A new edition of Global Labournet appears, focussing on a new threat to trade unions in the digital age.
29.10.97: The 45th Labour Website of the Week is selected. Also, we announce a new time for the weekly global LabourChat.
26.10.97: We add a new feature to Global Labournet -- you can now receive a reminder by email every time the newsletter changes (meaning, when a new issue comes out). As Global Labournet appears from time to time, and not according to a timetable, this is pretty good idea.
24.10.97: A brand new and important issue of Global Labournet is published.
22.10.97: The 44th Labour Website of the Week is selected -- and it's a double winner from the USA.
15.10.97: We launch a new feature: the Directory of Online Labour Conferences and Communities. And we name a new Labour Website of the Week too -- a day early.
13.10.97: The Nepalese national trade union center GEFONT begins broadcasting its website on the Labour Channel.
9.10.97: The 42nd labour website of the week is selected -- our first from Scotland.
6.10.97: We launch LabourChat.
25.9.97: A busy day!
18.9.97: Sometimes even a labour movement in defeat deserves the Labour Website of the Week award. This week, it goes to the Norwegian Labour Party.
15.9.97: We launch the The Labour Webmasters' Forum. This is the place for trade unionists from all over the world to meet and talk about the new technology that has so many of us excited -- the Internet and the World Wide Web. Feel free to jump right in and join the discussion.
Important: this new web forum is for trade union webmasters only. If you maintain a web site, design graphics or write text for one, or are a trade union official with responsibility for the site, you're invited to join the group. If you just want to talk about the labour movement, go to alt.society.labor-unions.
14.9.97: The 20-million member International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers Unions (ICEM) joins the Labour Channel.
10.9.97: A day earlier than usual, we pick the Labour Website of the Week -- this time from a European trade union with members in two countries.
We also break up the ever-growing list of previous winners into two pages -- one for the first 26 labour websites of the week and the other for the winners since June 1997.
The South African Congress of Trade Unions begins broadcasting on the Labour Channel.
We also add the Global Labour Directory of Directories main page to the Labour Channel.
9.9.97: We add a new feature to the Global Labour Directory of Directories -- the date the listed sites were last updated. Some of these are as fresh as this morning, others date back to the stone age (well, June and July 1997 to be more precise.)
8.9.97: A new mega-list is added to the Global Labour Directory of Directories -- and it lands in second place! Meanwhile, we add reviews of the lists of links at several international trade secretariats (the ones which didn't make our list) -- click here.
4.9.97: Yahoo adds not only the Global Labour Directory of Directories to its mega-site, but three of the directories we listed as well -- and a Yahoo staffer tells us that Yahoo learned about those directories from this site.
We update the Links page at Labour's Online Bookstore. (There are now 18 sites in 6 countries linking directly to the store. If you want your site to be listed here too, add a link to the store and let us know.)
We name the 38th Labour Website of the Week -- our first in Greece.
3.9.97: We add an online form (written in JavaScript) to allow trade union webmasters to submit their site (with more information) to the leading labour directories online. According to one trade union source, more sites were submitted in the first 24 hours that the Directory of Directories was online than in the previous 3 months!
1.9.97: It's Labour Day in the United States and Canada -- what better time to launch the Global Labour Directory of Directories? This is the place to begin looking for trade union websites, as well as to submit your new site to the top directories.
And another Labour Day present: a new batch of September titles in Labour's Online Bookstore!
28.8.97: A new edition of Global Labournet goes online, this time focussing on conferences on three continents dealing with the labour movement and the Internet.
Also, we pick the 37th Labour Website of the Week.
21.8.97: The 36th Labour Website of the Week may be a "ghost site". See why we picked it anyway.
14.8.97: With some 185,000 workers out, the Teamsters' strike against UPS is attracting global attention. So's their website, which is this week's Labour Website of the Week.
7.8.97: Visit this week's Labour Website of the Week and show your solidarity with 281 workers at a plant in Germany about to be closed by Time Warner.
2.8.97: The August issue of Global Labournet goes online.
Addition of 3 more reviews of the book, The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism, from left and labour publications in the U.K. and Ireland.
31.7,.97: We select our 33rd Labour Website of the Week -- our second site from Latin America.
17.7.97: The 32nd Labour Website of the Week is named -- the first from Japan.
10.7.97: We name the 31st Labour Website of the Week, the International Federation of Journalists, based in Brussels.
10.7.97: The 7 million member Trades Union Congress in the UK joins the Labour Channel.
9.7.97: The July edition of Global Labournet goes online.
26.6.97: Surprise! The home page of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions is full of English language material. Check out this week's winner of the Labour Website of the Week.
21.6.97: The Cyber Picket Line, run by Steve Davies in Wales, joins the Labour Channel.
A new edition of Global Labournet goes online, our second this week!
20.6.97: The International Transport Workers' Federation, based in London, joins the Labour Channel.
19.6.97: The 29th Labour Website of the Week is announced.
17.6.97: Global Labournet's June 1997 issue is now online.
12.6.97: Union Summer has been selected as the 28th Labour Website of the Week, the seventh US site to win the award so far.
More features added to The Labour Channel on PointCast Network.
10.6.97: We add sixteen new books to Labour's Online Bookstore.
6.6.97: 
We launch the Labour Channel on PointCast Network -- the first use of the new "push" technology by the labour movement. Click here for details.
5.6.97: We select the 27th Labour Website of the Week -- another African trade union. In addition, new links are added to Labour's Online Bookstore -- and we also recommend some new books there.
29.5.97: The 26th Labour Website of the Week is from Africa. Click here to see who it is.
22.5.97: We pick the 25th Labour Website of the Week.
15.5.97: The 24th Labour Website of the Week is named.
8.5.97: Global Labournet reports on the "cyber picket line" -- a new superlist of trade unions on the Web. And we pick the 23rd Labour Website of the Week -- our third from Canada.
30.4.97: A day early -- because tomorrow, May Day is a holiday -- we announce the 22nd Labour Website of the Week. Appropriately enough, it's the British Labour Party's election site.
24.4.97: The 21st Labour Website of the Week is announced.
22.4.97: Global Labournet is updated with news of a new international trade union organization, the Global Labour Institute.
21.4.97: No update to the "What's New" page doesn't mean no updates to the site! Since 3 April we've picked two more labour web sites of the week, a new edition of Global Labournet, and added several new reviews to the growing collection of reviews of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism.
3.4.97: Site redesigned. The 18th Labour Web Site of the Week is announced. See also the new issue of Global Labournet, online today.
28.3.97: Another review -- the fourth -- is posted to the site; it comes from the PTC, a major British trade union. All four reviews have come from UK-based unions and left groups. If anyone knows of reviews published in other countries, please pass them on. Thanks.
27.3.97: Another review of Eric Lee's book -- from Britain's Labour Left Briefing -- is posted to the site. Also, we pick the 17th Labour Web Site of the Week.
20.3.97: We pick the 16th Labour Web Site of the Week -- the first one with an animated GIF image as its logo! Also -- addition of another review of Eric Lee's book. (The review which appeared in the Israeli daily Ma'ariv will soon appear here too!)
19.3.97: We add a link to the brand new Pluto Press website -- a wonderful source of books for trade unionists.
13.3.97: We're back after nearly a month abroad with changes throughout the site. For example:
13.2.97: The fourteenth Labour Web Site of the Week is selected -- and it's the first one whose launch was celebrated by a Prime Minister!
11.2.97: More changes to Labour's Online Bookstore -- including a new Recommended title at a 20% discount!
9.2.97: An exciting new development of interest to every trade union webmaster -- read about it first on our News page.
6.2.97: The thirteenth Labour Web Site of the Week is named.
2.2.97: A number of changes, mostly cosmetic, to Labour's Online Bookstore.
1.2.97: The formal opening of Labour's Online Bookstore.
30.1.97: The twelfth Labour Web Site of the Week is selected -- and it's the international trade union organisation once headed up by Charles Levinson, who I called "the Jules Verne of Labour Telematics." Levinson passed away last week -- read my cyber epitaph here.
26.1.97: Changes to the site as Pluto Press titles and others are moved to Labour's Online Bookstore. Copies of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism are still ordered directly from the publisher -- click here.
23.1.97: The eleventh Labour Web Site of the Week is named -- and it's a unique example of the new internationalism in practice.
16.1.97: Hundreds of labour books at discounted prices -- now available from Labour's Online Bookstore, at this site.
16.1.97: The tenth Labour Web Site of the Week -- an example of how individual trade unionists can use the Web to promote the values and ideals of our movement.
15.1.97: Five suggestions of online things you can do (without getting up out of your chair) in support of the Korean strikers.
9.1.97: The ninth Labour Web Site of the Week -- this time from Asia, from the heart of a massive trade union struggle. Also, a tip to keep your hyperlinks alive -- on the News page.
4.1.97: A progessive supersite on the Internet with an emphasis on sound, and a global trade union seminar about labour use of the Internet -- where else but on the News page of this site?
2.1.97: The eighth Labour Web Site of the Week -- including QuickTime videos, animated GIF images, and trade union mugs and balloons for sale.
1.1.97: New! Full text reviews of the book, The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism. Check out the first one -- published in a global trade union magazine.
1.1.97: Want some control over how your site is indexed? Check out today's news page for one suggestion.
26.12.96: The seventh Labour Web Site of the Week -- with examples of a local USENET newsgroup for trade unionists, online form for joining unions, and an email-based discussion list. And news about the growing trade union use of the World Wide Web in Latin America -- and the problems of making a list.
20.12.96: Another attack on a labour web site -- this time the British Labour Party. For details, visit the news, updates and corrections page.
19.12.96: The sixth Labour Web Site of the Week is announced, and it's a perfect example of what a campaigning site on the global labournet should look like.
18.12.96: When we compiled our list of "Selected Labour Web Sites" there was only one in Germany -- today there are at least 14. Check out the news, updates and corrections page.
12.12.96: The fifth Labour Web Site of the Week -- this time, from Africa.
11.12.96: Needed: a trade union Web site superlist. Visit see the news, updates and corrections page. Also: a proposal for a Labour Webmaster discussion list. Let's hear what you have to say.
9.12.96: This site moves to Solinet -- the Solidarity Network, sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Note our new URL: http://www.labourstart.org/.
8.12.96: Update on the Web site of the trade union which launched the very first online labour network back in the early 1980s -- on the news, updates and corrections page.
5.12.96: The fourth Labour Web Site of the Week -- and our first from the United States.
3.12.96: Trade unions begin to use Web-based discussion groups -- see the news, updates and corrections page.
3.12.96: Addition of five more recent Pluto Press titles of special interest to trade unionists -- which can be ordered from this site.
3.12.96: Addition of a list of Pluto Press distributors around the world -- making it easier to order the book offline.
29.11.96: A study of trade union use of the Internet -- available from the British labour supersite, Labournet. Details in the news, updates and corrections page.
28.11.96: A new Labour Web Site of the Week -- this time, from Australia.
28.11.96: Fix done to the online order form which wasn't working properly (a bug in our server at Geocities).
27.11.96: USENET newsgroups -- trade union use of them was once confined to alt.society.labor-unions. No more! For the latest, check out the news, updates and corrections page.
25.11.96: A whole magazine devoted to the subject of labour online? Check out our news, updates and corrections page.
23.11.96: Update regarding International Labour Organisation website.
21.11.96: A new address for US labour supersite; another Labour Web Site of the Week chosen.
19.11.96: An end to proprietary online labour networks? Check out the "News, Updates and Corrections" page.
17.11.96: More news about cyber-warfare directed against labour web sites.
15.11.96: Dangerous development: hackers attack labour web site and mailing list in Europe and North America. Click here for details.
14.11.96: We name our first Labour Web Site of the Week
13.11.96: This site goes online.