{"id":2007,"date":"2011-11-25T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2011-11-25T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:51:27","slug":"trade-unions-in-the-democratic-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Toward Berlin 2014: Raising our profile in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to Gottingen, Germany yesterday to give a talk at a conference with that title. \u00a0My talk is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=521\">here<\/a>. \u00a0It was a great opportunity to begin building bridges with the German trade union movement, as the event was organized by their foundation (the Hans Boeckler Stiftung) and I was on a panel with two German trade unionists, one from the national center (DGB), the other from the ILO. \u00a0All this is very important in the run-up to the LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference due to be held in May 2014 in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>We need to do a lot of work to raise LabourStart&#8217;s profile in Germany in the next 30 months. \u00a0Here is where we stand today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing list: <\/strong>1,271 names (up from about 800 a year ago)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correspondents:<\/strong> we have at least 11 correspondents in Germany &#8211; though they are not particularly active. \u00a0(We&#8217;ve had over 3,000 news stories about Germany posted on LabourStart &#8211; but mostly by correspondents from outside the country &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/activecorrespondentsbycountry.pl?country=Germany\">here<\/a>. )<\/p>\n<p>We should aim to grow these numbers over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to Gottingen, Germany yesterday to give a talk at a conference with that title. \u00a0My talk is here. \u00a0It was a great opportunity to begin building bridges with the German trade union movement, as the event was organized by their foundation (the Hans Boeckler Stiftung) and I was on a panel with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}