Dr. Arthur B. Shostak

LabourStart
http://www.labourstart.org

Labour NewsWire is a new service announced this week by LabourStart.
Now, webmasters for trade union websites, can include continuously updated
trade union news on their sites by adding only a single line of code which
they can copy and paste from the LabourStart home page
(http://www.labourstart.org/lnw.shtml ).

It couldn't be simpler. All you have to do is copy and paste one line of
code from the LabourStart website and your union's home page will always
contain fresh news headlines -- either global headlines or news from your
own country.

The code for Labour NewsWire is a sophisticated bit of Perl script
including both JavaScript and Netscape's RDF format. It was prepared by
WebArchitects, based in Sheffield -- our thanks to Bruno and Chris!

Modules have been written for nine countries and working examples of the
code in practice are already on display at several websites:

trud.org - website of the Russian labour movement:
http://www.trud.org/index_7.htm

Congress of South African Trade Unions: www.cosatu.org.za/news.html

Rob's Labour Links (Canada):
http://www.netcore.ca/~rspring/

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