{"id":1290,"date":"2010-08-16T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2010-08-16T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T05:29:11","slug":"georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just returned from a 14-day visit to Georgia which while a vacation also gave me an opportunity to meet with Georgian trade unionists.<\/p>\n

I had three meetings in the Tbilisi headquarters of the 250,000 member Georgian Trade Union Confederation<\/a> (GTUC). \u00a0The first two were with leading figures of the union and lasted some four hours. \u00a0We discussed among other things the GTUC designating a correspondent; the launch of LabourStart in the Georgian language; the translation of campaigns into Georgian; the launch of a Georgian language mailing lists; and the possible launch of campaigns on behalf of the GTUC where appropriate. \u00a0The third and final meeting was with the executive of the newly formed journalists union where I made a presentation and took questions. \u00a0The local representative of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center took part in the last of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just returned from a 14-day visit to Georgia which while a vacation also gave me an opportunity to meet with Georgian trade unionists. I had three meetings in the Tbilisi headquarters of the 250,000 member Georgian Trade Union Confederation (GTUC). \u00a0The first two were with leading figures of the union and lasted some four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}