As I was travelling, there were few updates to this blog during this period.\u00a0 So here are some highlights:<\/p>\n
Campaigns:<\/strong> In my absence, we launched a new campaign in support of public sector workers in Peru.\u00a0 Edd has followed up with translators for missing languages in our earlier campaigns.\u00a0 We have a new Canadian campaign<\/a> as well, and have closed down the funeral home campaign there.\u00a0 We helped Amnesty promote their new campaign protesting death threats against Colombian trade unionists.\u00a0 We’ve received permission from DISK to close down the Turkey campaign — our largest ever — but are aware that there will almost certainly be the need for followup campaigns.<\/p>\n Books:<\/strong> CreateSpace is still dithering, not paying us the royalties owed.\u00a0 I’ve shipped 60 copies of our global labour movement book to the International Domestic Workers Network who will be distributing them to delegates to their international congress in Montevideo in October.\u00a0 Jeremy Green and I are working intensively on our third LabourStart book and hope to have a draft ready in the next week or two.\u00a0 All our books now appear on our new publications page<\/a> on LabourStart.<\/p>\n Calendar:<\/strong> Edd and I are in the final stages of preparation for the 2014 LabourStart Calendar which we hope to sell lots of copies of.<\/p>\n Internationalization:<\/strong> Our Italian news page has come to life again thanks to new correspondents.\u00a0\u00a0 We’ve sent out a special appeal to our Hindi language list to get more people involved.<\/p>\n Upcoming events:<\/strong> I’ve been asked to speak at a Unison Wales event on campaigning in October — this will be my third visit to Unison Wales in the last year or so.\u00a0 That same week, I’ll be speaking at a European Trade Union Institute event in Brussels.\u00a0 In November, we have the Kiev event, mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n Global Solidarity Conference 2014 – Berlin:<\/strong> The committee will be meeting there this week.\u00a0 We’re awaiting a phone call from the ITUC regarding the final dates and then we’ll send these out in a ‘save the date’ message.\u00a0 I’ll go to Berlin probably in September for a first meeting with the committee and to see venues.<\/p>\n Donations:<\/strong> We’ve received a substantial donation from the IUF, as well as donations from unions in the UK, India, Canada and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was travelling, there were few updates to this blog during this period.\u00a0 So here are some highlights: Campaigns: In my absence, we launched a new campaign in support of public sector workers in Peru.\u00a0 Edd has followed up with translators for missing languages in our earlier campaigns.\u00a0 We have a new Canadian campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,38,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081"}],"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=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}