{"id":3924,"date":"2016-09-08T14:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:17:46","slug":"unionbook-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3924","title":{"rendered":"UnionBook &#8211; the end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted this message on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionbook.org\/\">UnionBook website<\/a> and sent a very similar message to all 5,943 users by email:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The company which hosts this service has just DOUBLED their prices, effective immediately. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This means that LabourStart now needs to pay nearly $1,200 a year for a service which was costing us $600 a year until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because of this, and because there appear to be very few active users of UnionBook, we are thinking of closing down the service. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you or your union or organization are prepared to donate $1,200, we can continue for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Alternately, if we see a sudden huge show of interest in the site, we will reconsider. \u00a0(That doesn&#8217;t mean five people like it &#8212; it means enough people to justify spending that kind of money.)<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the short notice, but we just heard this and have only days to decide. \u00a0Sorry for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Eric Lee, LabourStart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted this message on the UnionBook website and sent a very similar message to all 5,943 users by email: The company which hosts this service has just DOUBLED their prices, effective immediately. \u00a0 This means that LabourStart now needs to pay nearly $1,200 a year for a service which was costing us $600 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924"}],"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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}