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Stop Labor Council’s web pushDate: 17 January 2004
If you don't want to see Labor Council crowing again that they've won LabourStart's international trade union website competition - again - you'd better get out and vote for their major opponent the LHMU. The LHMU website is the only other Australian union site which is into triple figure votes in this, the 7th annual Labour Website of the Year competition .
See below for instructions on how to vote LHMUThe John Robertson-Peter Lawis bandwagon is streaming ahead of all comers - including the big powerhouse union websites in the USA, UK and Europe. It is not quite seven days since the voting started ( voting goes through till January 31) but it seems the NSW Labor Council is stuffing the electronic ballot box, with more than 200 votes recorded since Monday. Only a Norwegian trade union portal is beating them at the moment with 270 votes in one week - and well in the running is a fire brigade union website from the UK.
Australian union websites in the competitionA whole range of Australian trade union websites have nominated - the QCU, the Victorian and national Meaties union websites are competing against each other, Apesma. Apheda, several ASU branch websites, the ETU, the Finance Sector Union, the HSU, the MUA, the NSW Teachers Fed, the NTEU, the Queensland Independent Education Union and the Queensland Nurses and the TWU.As well, somehow, Green Left Weekly and the Young Labor Left have snuck in their websites as nominees for the best trade union site across the globe. All of these Aussie websites are struggling to record more than a handful of votes.
LHMU one of the top tenMeanwhile the LHMU site has just hit the ton.... But at the moment we are being left in the wake of the traditional Labor Council number crunching voting style.Last year the LHMU web site was the only other Australian website in the top ten - with 6,477 votes cast for nearly 330 different websites. The competition was first held in late 1997 and is a unique event which highlights the growing use of the Internet by the world's trade unions -- and the growing sophistication of trade union websites. This year LabourStart expects there will be nearly 500 sites nominated by supporters,. In the first five days of voting more than 300 websites - many of them are write-in nominations from one-eyed enthusiasts - have so far been nominated. And as it is the slow summer silly season in Australia, when everyone is still asleep or lying in the sand on a beach, it is remarkable that any Australian union website is able to compete against the Northern Hemisphere labour movement websites.
Plaintive plea from an old troublemakerBut it is happening. So here is my plaintive plea ---- if you have a sense of history and tradition ( or you are just an old troublemaker like me ) you'll join me in booing and hissing if NSW Labor Council are once more able to muster the numbers out of Australia.Give the LHMU website your vote by clicking here. OR check out some of the other competitors websites - or just nominate your own union website - by going here.
Keep smiling' - the silly season lasts only a few more weeks!!!!!!
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