I haven’t been able to update this blog for some 4 weeks and lots has happened in that time. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n
New campaigns:<\/strong> We launched three new campaigns – India: Over 500 workers jailed in dispute with Foxconn<\/a> (4,036 messages sent so far), Thailand: Migrant workers have the right to workers’ compensation<\/a> (1,703 messages), and Colombia: Free jailed university lecturer and trade unionist<\/a> (1,707 messages). We’ve closed down one campaign last Friday — PSI’s campaign in support of jailed workers in Turkey.<\/p>\n LabourStart.tv:<\/strong> The domain registrar closed our account in late September — we’re now making efforts to get it reopened. Meanwhile, I’ve changed the link on our front page to point to http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/tv which works.<\/p>\n Labour and Technology podcasts:<\/strong> I’ve done two of these in the last month – Spammers and online communities: The challenge for trade unions<\/a> (50 listeners) and Activist apps<\/a> (258 listeners).<\/p>\n Labour photo of the year:<\/strong> Derek and I have agreed to begin work on this in another couple of weeks.<\/p>\n UnionBook:<\/strong> The old site has been completely shut down and unionbook.org and unionbook.org.uk now both point to the new site.<\/p>\n Upcoming conferences:<\/strong> I have been invited to speak at a conference of the International Metalworkers Federation in Geneva next week — it’s called “IMF global trade union networks in TNC’s as a tool to organising and promoting solidarity”. I’ve also been invited to Istanbul to speak at a conference on trade unions new media on 27 November.<\/p>\n 2011 LabourStart global solidarity conference:<\/strong> Andrew has made some progress on this and we’ll be talking about it and beginning planning within the next few days.<\/p>\n Labour’s online bookstore:<\/strong> We’re ready to use the new version of UCS’s software, and this should be live in a day or two. We continue to promote about one book per month. \u00a0Authors and publishers continue to contact us regularly asking us to promote books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t been able to update this blog for some 4 weeks and lots has happened in that time. Here are some highlights: New campaigns: We launched three new campaigns – India: Over 500 workers jailed in dispute with Foxconn (4,036 messages sent so far), Thailand: Migrant workers have the right to workers’ compensation (1,703 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3,4,13,16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}