Dear fellow workers and friends,
We’ve reached our 2000
communications, 2000 newsletters sent to our growing
list of subscribers. We started out as an electronic
newsletter, selecting one or more articles each day and
sending them to our mailing list.
We didn’t give it a specific name, we
simply started signing it
Sirel,
short for Rel-UITA News Service, in Spanish.
Just a few months later, we
officially baptized our open communication channel with
the name “Sirel”.
We changed the format a few months
ago and we no longer send the full article, only the
daily headlines, distinguishing our production from any
news items reposted from other web pages, along with a
photograph selected for the day.
This is what we now call La
Rel-Hoy*, and it responds to a change in the concept
of communication. Now you can choose which articles you
wish to read without having to go through our website’s
home page first. So we’ve given you a shortcut to our
contents and we’ve increased your ability to choose what
you want to read, besides showing you an image
especially selected to express something in particular,
to communicate an idea, to add its own story, feeling
and visual appeal.
We’ve produced 2000 numbers of what
we called Sirel and is now La Rel-Hoy*. But whatever the
name, we’ve reached out to you 2000 times through
cyberspace to communicate something, to report on
important news and events, to remind you that you are
not alone in your struggles, your doubts, your victories
and your setbacks.
But it’s more than just 2000: since
we inaugurated this web page we’ve published nearly
12,500 articles, with more than 23,000 photographs.
As its name indicates, the aim of the
Rel-UITA News Service is to offer you -our
affiliates and friends- a communication service where
you can make your demands and struggles known to a wider
audience, where you can publish many news that are not
covered by mainstream media because they’re not
considered news, but which are often truly vital to the
labor movement.
Fully aware that the continuation of
Sirel
depends on you, on how much you identify with our
Service, we can say that we’re pleased with what we do
and how we do it, but that we’re not satisfied.
Our aim is to continue improving our
service, striving to become more efficient and
effective, and faster when we need to be faster, more
wide-reaching and diverse in our scope, gradually
incorporating all the possibilities offered by the
Internet, like audio and video, live coverage of
activities and events, and so many other things…
Lastly, a reference to the image that
illustrates this small celebration: This picture really
captures the spirit of the IUF’s Latin American Regional
Office, Rel-UITA, an organization made up of many
men and women aligned under a common goal and with a
common meaning, each fulfilling a role and serving the
collective whole.
This face communicates joy, hope, the
quiet conviction that we have a future to look forward
to, but that even though we’ve made great progress,
there’s still a lot of work to do. And that that’s
something good.
We are La Rel. It’s our
future. Our path, together.
From Spanish: ‘La Rel – TODAY’
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