Imagine, if you will, a secret meeting of the directors of an un-named evil corporation. As they sit around their conference table, plotting and scheming, one of the directors comments on the growing problem of…

According to reports coming out of Tehran, security forces last weekend began arresting hundreds of striking bus workers employed by the state-owned Vahed bus company. The majority of the union leadership is already in jail,…

When friends of mine from New York City visit me in London, they often refer to our city-wide underground rail system as “the subway”. I explain to them that here in England, we have subways…

For the ninth year in a row, LabourStart is once again organizing the Labour Website of the Year competition. The history of that competition reads like a history of trade union use of the Internet….

The launch of LabourStart TV (at http://www.labourstart.tv) may mark the beginning of new era in union communications. I say that knowing that it sounds like hyperbole, and grossly exaggerates what we are doing. But let…

Last month, I attended the founding convention in St. Louis of the Change to Win federation — the alliance of unions which have broken away from the AFL-CIO. I wrote at length about the convention…

Seven years ago, I was talking about the Internet to leaders of one of Britain’s largest unions. I suggested that we consider sending out a mass mailing — by post — to inform the union’s…

Jakob Nielsen is a name that will be familiar to those of you who design web pages. Nielsen is the world’s leading expert on website usability. Thanks to his efforts, a lot of websites are…

When LabourStart began back in 1998, news was one of its three main features (the others were a directory of union websites and links to online campaigns run by unions). One of the three columns…

Two of the recent campaigns we’ve run on the LabourStart website are what one might consider success stories. And yet the results — so far — could not be more different. One of the campaigns…