Vote for Labor Photo of the Year at LabourStart

by James Parks, Oct 19, 2008

This photo of University of California service workers at a rally outside the office of the university’s president is one of the finalists for LabourStart’s Photo of the Year.

LabourStart, the global news source for working people, is sponsoring its annual Labor Photo of the Year contest and you can vote to decide the winner.

Labor activists, who are the reporters and photographers for LabourStart, submitted thousands of photos and a distinguished three-judge panel selected a group of five finalists. Four of the five photos show workers protesting their working conditions: tax collectors in Egypt, railway workers in Switzerland, public-sector employees in England and service workers in California (see photo above). Another shot shows the solitary figure of a Bangladesh worker sweating in the hot sun, displaying the dignity of work in the most difficult of conditions. Click here to view and vote for your favorite photo. Deadline for voting is Oct. 31.   

The three judge panel includes photojournalist and author David Bacon, Gretchen Donart, a communications organizer in Seattle and Mac Urata, secretary of the Inland Transport Sections of the International Transport Workers’ Federation and a leading labor photographer. 

Based in London, LabourStart features daily labor news links in more than 20 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 700 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union, and alternative news sources by a network of over 500 volunteer correspondents based on every continent. 

LabourStart has been involved in online campaigning for several years, but ratcheted up efforts in July 2002 through the ActNOW campaigning system. Tens of thousands of trade unionists have participated in its various online campaigns and more than 50,000 are currently subscribed to LabourStart’s mailing list.

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