{"id":4637,"date":"2022-08-01T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:22:58","slug":"weekly-update-global-conference-iran-news-database-correspondents-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"Weekly update: Global conference, Iran, News database, Correspondents, Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conference 2023:<\/strong> We have begun work planning our next Global Solidarity Conference &#8212; which is long overdue &#8212; in Tbilisi.\u00a0 The Georgian Trade Union Confederation has named its members of the steering committee and we have invited members of the LabourStart Executive to participate as well.\u00a0 We hope to have the first meeting of the joint committee very soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran:<\/strong> We have raised workers&#8217; rights cases in Iran with three global union federations &#8212; IndustriALL, the ITF and Education International.\u00a0 EI has requested to be included as a sponsor of our current campaign; we have asked about whether they want a separate campaign for a teacher activist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News database:<\/strong> The work repairing this continues as we consider moving the whole database to a different web hosting company.\u00a0 (Support from our current hosts has been non-existent &#8212; and they caused the problem in the first place.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>New correspondents:<\/strong> We added three new correspondents last week from Canada (Iran), Germany and Hong Kong (UK).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We had been invited to prepare a campaign in support of a workers&#8217; rights activist in Kenya, but the company caved and agreed to the demands before a campaign could be launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference 2023: We have begun work planning our next Global Solidarity Conference &#8212; which is long overdue &#8212; in Tbilisi.\u00a0 The Georgian Trade Union Confederation has named its members of the steering committee and we have invited members of the LabourStart Executive to participate as well.\u00a0 We hope to have the first meeting of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,3,54,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637"}],"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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}