The LabourStart Logo Competition

The LabourStart Logo Competition

LabourStart has had the same logo for 21 years (see above), and now we think it may be time to freshen things up a bit.

For that reason we're launching a new logo competition.

This competition is open to everyone.

Here is how it is going to work:

Submitting your logos

First, some technical details:

• Image size: Please submit a logo that is 400 pixels wide and 200 pixels high. The logo must include the text 'LabourStart' (like the current logo).
• Format: We will accept the following formats only: GIF, JPG, and PNG.
• In addition, the winner of the competition should be prepared to send us one high-resolution version of the logo that we can use on printed promotional materials such as banners and t-shirts.
• Please note that in submitting your logo to LabourStart, you are giving us the full rights to use the image. This must be an image you created, and for which you own the rights.

How to submit:

• Please submit your logo -- just one logo per person -- using WeTransfer.
• Make sure to include your correct email address.
• In the Message box there, include your full name and country.
• The deadline to submit your logo is midnight GMT on 31 October 2019.

What happens next

• The members of the LabourStart Executive will review all the submissions during the course of November.
• Designers whose logos made the shortlist will be notified by email.
• LabourStart will release the shortlist by the beginning of December, at which point a public vote will take place online.
• The winner will be notified by 31 December 2019.

Spread the word!

• Please share this widely. The more people submit logos, the better the designs on our shortlist will be.
• And thank you very much!

World Day for Decent Work. Make the Thunderclap work

To help raise awareness of the problem of precarious work, IndustriALL Global Union has launched a Thunderclap for the World Day for Decent Work on 7 October.

A Thunder-what?

I'm guessing you've never heard of Thunderclap, so here's the official explanation:

"Thunderclap is the first-ever crowdspeaking platform that helps people be heard by saying something together. It allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, so it rises above the noise of your social networks. By boosting the signal at the same time, Thunderclap helps a single person create action and change like never before."

Is that clear?  Maybe not.  Thunderclap allows us to allow send out the same message on the same day and at the same time, automatically, to our friends and followers on social networks including Facebook and Twitter.

IndustriALL Global Union wants trade unionists and trade unions to sign up to their Thunderclap message on precarious work.  The message is due to go out on 7 October, the World Day for Decent Work.

Their message reads:

"STOP Precarious Work! Defend your rights to a secure job. Join the global action on 7 October".

You can support this campaign by clicking here:



( Don't see a link? Click on this: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16472-stop-precarious-work )

If you've never done this sort of thing before, you'll see that you need to be logged into Facebook, Twitter  or Tumblr (ideally, all three).  And you'll need to give the Thunderclap app permission to send out the IndustriALL message to your friends and followers at a specified day and time.  

IndustriALL needs at least 250 of us to agree to go along with this.  Otherwise, the Thunderclap won't happen.

Among those who've already signed up are the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trades Union Congress (UK), and LabourStart.  

I've signed up and I hope you will too.  Thank you.


Eric Lee

Third Annual LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference

In another 38 days -- on Monday, 26 November 2012 -- we'll open the 3rd Annual LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference in Sydney.

The previous conferences, held in Canada and Turkey, were resounding successes.

They provided an opportunity for trade unionists from many different countries to meet and discuss the things that really matter.

We're confident that this year's conference in Sydney will be an unmissable event.

The conference will be held at the New South Wales Teachers Federation conference centre - 23-33 Mary Street, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010 Sydney