Teach your children

[Omaha Steve]

It's never too soon to start teaching your kids about trade unions — and one good way to do so is through children's books that cast unions in a positive light. There aren't a lot of these, which is why we're delighted to have come across a new historical novel by Mary Cronk Farrell, "Fire in the Hole". It's suitable for readers aged 8 and above and I encourage all LabourStart readers to purchase copies for your own kids. To learn more about this book and to order your copies, click here:

http://tinyurl.com/yey5m9c

The deadline for submitting photos to the Labour Photo of the Year competition is rapidly approaching -- midnight GMT on Wednesday.

So far, 97 photos have been submitted. (You can see them here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1171179@N25/ )

It's very important that we encourage all our contacts, friends, co-workers and fellow union members to submit their photos of unions
in action. Obviously you're also invited to submit your own photos too.

On 1 October our panel of distinguished judges (all of them union photographers) will begin selecting the shortlist and after that,
we'll invite our 60,000 email subscribers and others to vote.

Time is short. Please spread the word -- visit http://www.labourstart.org/lpoty/ to learn more.

Send any questions about this competition to Derek Blackadder - [e-mail]

Thanks.

Eric Lee