{"id":4796,"date":"2024-05-17T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2024-05-17T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:09:16","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-10-5-24-17-5-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4796","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 10.5.24 \u2013 17.5.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Podcasts:<\/strong> We released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2313632\/15072375\">our interview with Esther Lynch<\/a>, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), this week. It fairly quickly picked up over <strong>100<\/strong> downloads. The previous week&#8217;s interview, with Khaing Zar, now has over <strong>220<\/strong> downloads. We have one interview ready to go, and are trying to finalise interviews with trade unionists in Argentina, the US and Europe. We now have a prominent link to the podcasts on all our home pages, in all languages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/images\/podcast.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenya campaign:<\/strong> We&#8217;re slowly getting close to <strong>3,000<\/strong> supporters in what we hope will be the final days of this campaign, as the strike appears to be over. The union has asked us to keep it going a bit longer. The campaign is in <strong>15<\/strong> languages, and the ones with the largest numbers of supporters are (in order) English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian and Dutch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New campaigns:<\/strong> We continue to reach out to unions that might need our help. This week, this included IF Metall in Sweden, where the Tesla strike continues, the independent trade unions of Belarus, and the Georgian Trade Union Confederation offering our help in supporting the pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Our volunteer correspondents posted <strong>1,879<\/strong> stories to LabourStart in the first <strong>16<\/strong> days of May, an average of more than <strong>117<\/strong> per day, a slight decrease compared to the previous week. This month, <strong>36<\/strong> of our correspondents have been active &#8211; we need to grow that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasts: We released our interview with Esther Lynch, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), this week. It fairly quickly picked up over 100 downloads. The previous week&#8217;s interview, with Khaing Zar, now has over 220 downloads. We have one interview ready to go, and are trying to finalise interviews with trade unionists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796"}],"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=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}