{"id":343,"date":"2009-04-07T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T05:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-04-07T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T05:49:37","slug":"some-quick-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Some quick updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve asked to close down the Russian campaign after 4 months and 2,415 supporters.<\/li>\n<li>We are about to launch a new campaign in support of Turkish workers.\u00a0 Both campaigns came from the International Metalworkers Federation.<\/li>\n<li>Campaign counter now works on all languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work has begun on localizing the entry of news links &#8211; we&#8217;re testing this on French first.\u00a0 The aim is to have all the input screens work in the local language so we can recruit correspondents who don&#8217;t know any English at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book sales:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve sold 53 copies of the Global Unions, Global Business book, which is not bad.<\/li>\n<li>The Union Books group has 71 members, making it one of the largest groups on UnionBook.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve sold $986.55 worth of books at UCS in the first week of April.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re in negotiations with the bookstore of one of the largest unions in Europe, Ver.di, in Berlin and might be able to begin selling German-language union books to German trade union members.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re also talking to an Australian university press about helping to sell one of its titles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Newswires:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did some more work on creating a Unicode version of these for sites which have switched over to Unicode. So far, French and German are working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be concert in Sheffield on 2 May the proceeds of which will be donated to LabourStart &#8211; more details soon.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re also finishing up the deal with No Sweat Apparel to produce a union-made UnionBook t-shirt.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re following up with possible donations to LabourStart from Unite (UK) and CUPE (Canada).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: We&#8217;ve asked to close down the Russian campaign after 4 months and 2,415 supporters. We are about to launch a new campaign in support of Turkish workers.\u00a0 Both campaigns came from the International Metalworkers Federation. Campaign counter now works on all languages. News: Work has begun on localizing the entry of news links &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,6,10,16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}