{"id":4483,"date":"2021-08-04T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:56:00","slug":"book-of-the-month-labour-history-and-3-new-campaigns-another-week-for-labourstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Book of the month, labour history, and 3 new campaigns: Another week for LabourStart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since last Wednesday we’ve had a very busy week …<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Chile:<\/strong> We’ve had full coverage of the strike at the world’s largest copper mine, and have publicised that fact across social media.<\/p>\n

Egypt:<\/strong> We’ll be exploring the possibility of new campaign with our friends at the CTUWS.<\/p>\n

\"\"Europe:<\/strong> We’ve continued running with the Fedex\/TNT campaign<\/strong><\/a> for at least another month, at the request of the ETF.<\/p>\n

Hungary:<\/strong> We expect to shortly launch a campaign in support of workers who’ve been forbidden to strike – at the request of the European Transport Workers’ Federation.<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan:<\/strong> We closed the campaign<\/strong><\/a> in all languages, but may need to do another as the issues have not been resolved.<\/p>\n

Malawi:<\/strong> We added a new correspondent from the journalists’ union.<\/p>\n

Romania:<\/strong> Our mailing list in Romanian grew by several hundred due to the campaign we’re running in support of Bucharest metro workers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sweden:<\/strong> We’ve responded favourably to the request for a campaign and are expecting something quite soon.<\/p>\n

Adding news:<\/strong> We’ve cleaned up the pages where correspondents add news, dropping a lot of extraneous material.<\/p>\n

\"\"Book of the month:<\/strong> We’ve started promoting a book of the month — on our home page, across social media and soon, in a mailing. The authors of ‘Dying for an iPhone<\/em>‘ are delighted.<\/p>\n

Campaigns:<\/strong> We’ve shared a piece Derek wrote — Ten Reasons Why Unions Should Use LabourStart for Online Campaigns<\/strong><\/a> — on our home page.<\/p>\n

Country news:<\/strong> Our country news page was not rendering correctly on small screens (like smartphones); this has now been fixed.<\/p>\n

Donations:<\/strong> We followed up with appeals to several global unions, and BWI committed to a donation again this year.<\/p>\n

Internationalisation:<\/strong> Our Hebrew home page<\/strong><\/a> had many problems, with far too much English and texts aligning on the wrong side of the page — all of this now fixed this week, as we move to other languages one by one.<\/p>\n

LabourStart Jobs:<\/strong> We continue to make progress on this — it’s now multilingual and we’ve two designs for logos, and have registered the domain name labourstartjobs.org. Still working on this.<\/p>\n

Today in Labour History:<\/strong> We had problems with character encoding which were screwing up the display of non-English texts — now fixed, as you can see on our home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since last Wednesday we’ve had a very busy week … Chile: We’ve had full coverage of the strike at the world’s largest copper mine, and have publicised that fact across social media. Egypt: We’ll be exploring the possibility of new campaign with our friends at the CTUWS. Europe: We’ve continued running with the Fedex\/TNT campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,38,8,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483"}],"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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}