{"id":1565,"date":"2011-04-18T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T08:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T08:27:52","slug":"unions-and-facebook-pages-a-snapshot-of-where-we-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"Unions and Facebook Pages: A snapshot of where we stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

LabourStart only recently launched a Facebook Page –<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The page went live 18 days ago.<\/p>\n

This comes after having had a Facebook Group for several years.<\/p>\n

Pages have certain advantages – and they seem to go viral faster because updates appear on your own news feeds.<\/p>\n

We were admittedly quite late to discover this and I’ve decided have a look around and see how many fans the various union Facebook pages currently have and when they were last updated.<\/p>\n

Here’s a selection from the global unions (including the date last updated) — these are the ones with active Facebook pages:<\/p>\n

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  1. UNI Global Union – 2,298 – 17 April<\/li>\n
  2. PSI – 1,903 – 18 April<\/li>\n
  3. International Trade Union Confederation – 1,640 – 16 April<\/li>\n
  4. LabourStart – 787 – 16 April<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. IUF – 662 – 16 April<\/li>\n
  6. IMF – 306 – 15 April<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And these are the inactive ones:<\/p>\n

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    1. ICEM – 209 – 4 March<\/li>\n
    2. IFJ – 90 – never updated<\/li>\n
    3. BWI – 27 – 12 April<\/li>\n
    4. Education International – 30 – 14 April<\/li>\n
    5. ITGLWF – no page<\/li>\n
    6. ITF – no page<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As for national trade union centers in the English-speaking world, here’s a selection:<\/p>\n

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      1. USA: AFL-CIO 25,182<\/li>\n
      2. UK: TUC 1,821<\/li>\n
      3. USA: Change to Win 1,412<\/li>\n
      4. Ireland: Irish Congress of Trade Unions 1,333<\/li>\n
      5. Canada: CLC 491<\/li>\n
      6. South Africa: COSATU 84<\/li>\n
      7. Australia: ACTU 32<\/li>\n
      8. New Zealand: CTU 31 [see comments below for more details]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        LabourStart only recently launched a Facebook Page – http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org The page went live 18 days ago. This comes after having had a Facebook Group for several years. Pages have certain advantages – and they seem to go viral faster because updates appear on your own news feeds. We were admittedly quite late to discover this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"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=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}