What follows is a brief summary of highlights followed by the usual long list of numbers.
SUMMARY:
XTwitter feeds continue to decline. Most or all of that can be attributed to our followers abandoning the platform for Bluesky, where our numbers continue to rise despite no concerted effort being made to grow the accounts.
News stories posted per day dropped last month. This is an annual event as many unions in the global north reduce services and activities during the traditional Christmas-New Year’s holiday period.
The recent surge in campaign requests accounts for the increases in our mailing lists.
Our other numbers remain fairly stable.
THE NUMBERS:
The first number next to each item is the current total as of today; the second number is the total as of the last report. Where one number is provided it means that there has been no change since our last report.
Lists or accounts that have shrunk are in italics. Lists or accounts which experienced growth are in bold.
STORIES POSTED TO OUR NEWS SITE IN THE LAST MONTH:
3224-3520 (117 per day).
Annual: 38098 was the total for 2025.
MAILING LISTS:
The top 10:
English: 87036-86401
French: 7187-7170
Spanish: 5651-5579
German: 5575
Turkish: 4685-4508
Korean: 3197
Italian: 2845-2835
Russian: 2682
Norwegian: 2036-2025
Romanian: 1730
Dutch: 1587-1437
The others:
Arabic: 768
Azerbaijani: 56
Belarusian: 299
Bulgarian: 17
Chinese: 971-970
Creole: 11
Czech: 58
Danish: 79
Esperanto: 191-189
Farsi: 164
Finnish: 439
Georgian: 181-176
Greek: 54
Hebrew: 262-261
Hindi: 80
Hungarian: 174
Indonesian: 385
Japanese: 388
Lithuanian: 62
Malaysian: 20
Polish: 964
Portuguese: 1276
Punjabi: 2
Serbian: 97
Sinhalese: 1
Slovak: 15
Swedish: 909
Tagalog: 183
Thai: 142
Ukrainian: 493
Vietnamese: 21
Internal:
Executive: 12
Interns and Past Interns: 16
LabourStart ACTIVE Correspondents: 628
LabourStart INACTIVE Correspondents: 853
LabourStart Translators: 109
Africa Caucus: 63
Media Contacts: 69
Donors: 961
BLUESKY:
No efforts were made to increase the number of followers for either account.
Global: 17557-17307
Canada English-language: 456-438
FLICKR:
Members: 837
Photos: 10395-10403
TELEGRAM:
LabourStart channel: 131
FACEBOOK PAGES/GROUPS:
No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.
LabourStart.org page likes: 14k, details unavailable
Global Labour News and Information: 9220-9175
LabourStart UK likes: 2k-2.1k, details unavailable
LabourStart Francophone: 620 (last post February 2021)
LabourStart-de: 489
LabourStart Brasil: 552
LabourStart Turkce: 2k, details unavailable
LabourStart TV followers: 456-461
LabourStart Vostok: 119
LabourStart Italia: 68
LabourStart Esperanto: 18
LabourStart Canada-English: 229-217
LabourStart Nepal: 7 (last post April 2017)
LabourStart Israel: CLOSED (last post 2018)
LINKEDIN:
No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers.
Group: 2636-2645
Page: 503-490
PODCASTS:
LabourStart is a member of the US-based Labor Radio / Podcast Network.
Rather than list each podcast and the numbers of times they have been downloaded we will report the three (3) podcasts that have been downloaded the most times to date.
- 664downloads: Interview with Mark Hancock, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees re. the union’s recently-adopted “Montreal Declaration” which was drafted in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats against Canada.
- 504 downloads: Interview with Paul Finch, President of the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU).
- 475 downloads: USA: Interview with Shawna Bader-Blau from the Solidarity Center
X (TWITTER as-was):
No concerted effort was made in the past month to increase our numbers for these accounts. If we wish to maintain our footprint we will have to start doing so again or the erosion of our numbers will continue. Whether that is possible is another question given the current flight of users from the platform.
We experienced decline in all accounts except the Australian, which grew slightly. Prior to the exodus to Bluesky all would have usually experienced slow growth without any effort on our part. This is almost certainly the result of trade unionists closing their Twitter accounts and moving to other platforms (such as Bluesky or Mastodon).
Global English: 35546-35851
Canada English: 20327-20479
Global Portuguese: 9698-9757
Global Spanish: 10109-10214
Australia: 9207-9297
USA: 4565-4584
Canada French: 3051-3058
Russian: 50
Hebrew: 50 (last tweet 02-2021)
Italian: 472 (last tweet 11-2021)
Swedish: 329 (last tweet 2016)
Indonesia: 341 (last tweet 2015)
French: 205 (last tweet 2018)
German: 120 (last tweet 2018)
Japanese: 21 (last tweet 2012)
Dutch: 12 (last tweet April 2012)
Arabic: 7 (last tweet May 2012)
South Asia (English): 28 Placeholder and not yet active.
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