{"id":1402,"date":"2010-12-04T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2010-12-04T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T08:25:01","slug":"saturday-morning-quick-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Saturday morning quick updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Last week we published our first news story in Tamil.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve been in touch with our comrades in Tbilisi and have been assured that our Georgian language edition will go live next week.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re expecting the translation into Hindi to be ready in the next few days.<\/li>\n<li>Our front page in Turkish now includes graphical links to all the country&#8217;s national trade union centers as well as two pro-labour NGOs we&#8217;ve been working with &#8211; and they&#8217;ve all been informed of this.\u00a0 One of the centers (DISK) has discussed ways to cooperate with us.\u00a0 Meanwhile, a very large number of Turkish trade unionists have signed up to use UnionBook.<\/li>\n<li>The ITF has called for a global day of action in support of Turkey&#8217;s TUMTIS union which is locked in dispute with UPS &#8211; we may need to launch a big online campaign in another week or two.<\/li>\n<li>We have a new newswire &#8211; USA labour news stories in Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>We stopped submissions to our Labour Photo of the Year competition and the judges are currently preparing a shortlist.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve begun work in earnest on our iPhone\/iPad app.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve asked correspondents to help our comrades in Egypt (at CTUWS) who are looking for books to translate into Arabic &#8211; they&#8217;ve begun with one that was a LabourStart book of the week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we published our first news story in Tamil. We&#8217;ve been in touch with our comrades in Tbilisi and have been assured that our Georgian language edition will go live next week. We&#8217;re expecting the translation into Hindi to be ready in the next few days. Our front page in Turkish now includes graphical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,4,14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}