{"id":2955,"date":"2013-05-29T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2013-05-29T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:04:21","slug":"the-week-in-review-22-29-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"The week in review – 22-29 May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> We launched two new campaigns this week and closed down one.<\/p>\n

Our campaign in support of General Electric’s Erie, Pennsyslvania workers (organized by the UE), has already gotten over 7,500 messages sent in 9 languages with more to come.<\/p>\n

The UK-only campaign we launched in support of outsourced workers at the University of London has gotten just under 1,200 messages.<\/p>\n

In addition, we closed down the Turkey campaign after 3 months — a campaign which generated 12,700 messages making it one of the largest we’ve ever run. According to the ITUC, “KESK does consider it [our campaign] to be one of the elements in a whole joint effort which eventually led to the release of several dozens of trade unionists, even if 90 of them remain in jail to date.”<\/p>\n

We now have a version of our campaigns that works really well on phones and tablets and expect to go live with it sometime today. (Read more here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We discovered a problem on our campaigns page — it seemed that quite a large number of people were clicking on the ‘share on Facebook’ link but not actually sending off messages. It may be that the page design was flawed. This has now been fixed (read more here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We helped the TUC with a special mailing to our UK list about their online campaign to pressure the Gap and Debenhams to sign up to the Bangladesh Accord.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong><\/em> We’ve made some fixes to our various pages, including these:<\/p>\n

A country page (e.g., the UK) that is supposed to show one language (e.g., English) will now only show campaigns in that language.<\/p>\n

On the French Canadian edition, we’ve now fixed some translation problems Andy reported.<\/p>\n

We’ve made some steps forward on the Turkish and other editions getting them ready for launch using the new format for all languages.<\/p>\n

We fixed a glitch that was sorting some news stories on the country pages in the wrong order, as Roy reported.<\/p>\n

We also dealt with the problem of a state\/province appearing on the wrong country page, discovered by Derek.<\/p>\n

And finally, we made the photo of the day and the campaign photo appear on the front page with the same width for each one, so the page won’t appear to be lop-sided.<\/p>\n

Berlin 2014:<\/strong><\/em> We’ve been in touch with the ITUC this week about coordinating our efforts.<\/p>\n

Events:<\/strong><\/em> There have been some improvements to the Events module now displayed on the front page of country pages in English. (See here for example.)<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re not showing old events anymore.<\/p>\n

We have a link to show more events if there are any. (This page is being improved to look nicer.)<\/p>\n

And we’re currently working on a link to submit events which will appear together with the events.<\/p>\n

Publicity:<\/strong><\/em> I had articles in Stronger Unions<\/a> (UK) and Our Times<\/a> (Canada), both on labour themes. I’ve also been in touch with Equal Times (ITUC) and Neues Deutschland about articles on labour issues.<\/p>\n

We’re running an ad campaign on Facebook now — here are the numbers so far: Ad seen by 37,747<\/strong> people in the UK and Germany; 264<\/strong> of them have liked our page<\/a>, bringing the total number of likes up to 6,964<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong> <\/em>We’ve sold 251<\/strong> copies of the Global Labour Movement book so far, plus 18<\/strong> Kindle editions for a total of 269<\/strong>. This is a slower sale than our previous book, which sold more than 400 copies during the first month. We hope that bulk purchases from unions can help.<\/p>\n

Fundraising:<\/strong> <\/em>We just received a very generous donation of \u00a35,000 from the ITF, and C$500 from Canadian labour lawyers.<\/p>\n

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