{"id":3629,"date":"2014-11-04T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T10:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2014-11-06T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:49:55","slug":"new-canadian-edition-of-our-guide-to-global-labour-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"New Canadian Edition of Our Guide to Global Labour Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I met with the International Development Working Group of the Canadian Labour Congress.\u00a0 The senior staff doing international work from all the major unions (and a few smaller ones) form the Working Group.<\/p>\n<p>There was unanimous agreement to move forward with producing, early in the new year, a &#8216;Canadianized&#8217; version of the the book.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep you posted as things develop but it seems to me that once a readability edit is done of the existing GUF and other global institutions sections and a couple of missing GUFs are added, all that will be needed to produce a series of national versions of the book are some pieces solicited from unions and central labour bodies.<\/p>\n<p>My hope for the Canadian edition is that each union will commit to buy a certain number of copies for their internal use.<\/p>\n<p>As a (useful) aside, I have been able to locate a unionized printer in Toronto that offers a &#8216;print-on-demand&#8217; service with products certified as union-made.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Blackadder &#8211; Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I met with the International Development Working Group of the Canadian Labour Congress.\u00a0 The senior staff doing international work from all the major unions (and a few smaller ones) form the Working Group. There was unanimous agreement to move forward with producing, early in the new year, a &#8216;Canadianized&#8217; version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}