{"id":4843,"date":"2024-09-06T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:34:01","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-24-8-6-9-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 24.8 – 6.9.24"},"content":{"rendered":"

We missed last week’s update because I was getting married.\u00a0 We will probably miss next week’s too, as I’ll be on my honeymoon.\u00a0 But for now, here’s a short update of the highlights from the last two weeks:<\/p>\n

New campaign:<\/em> We launched a major new campaign in support of garment workers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu<\/a>.\u00a0 After less than two days online, the campaign had over 3,000 supporters<\/strong> which is very fast growth for us.\u00a0 (The fact that it is no longer August and union offices have re-opened may have helped.)\u00a0 The campaign appears in eight languages — includind Indonesian and Serbian — with more in the pipeline.\u00a0 We are expecting this campaign to also appear in Tamil and are awaiting translation; this will be our first campaign in that language.\u00a0 We’re also hoping to get a podcast interview done for this campaign next week and are waiting to hear back from our partners.\u00a0 We currently have 6<\/strong> active campaigns online.<\/p>\n

Translators:<\/em> For the first time, we had an online meetup of our Translators.\u00a0 About 12<\/strong> came, nearly all of them active translators, and of those there were three translators for German, which had been until recently a problematic language for us (no consistent translation).\u00a0 It was a very good meeting and it will not be the last time we meet as a group.<\/p>\n

Interns:<\/em> We also reached out this week to the 16<\/strong> individuals who we have identified so far (there may be a few more) who have been LabourStart interns since 2012.\u00a0 A couple have already responded positively and this is a very welcome development.<\/p>\n

Finances:<\/em> Finally, this week we were able to report on a worsening financial situation for LabourStart, and we reached out to our union partners as well as the more than 700<\/strong> people who regularly donate. \u00a0 (Our donors’ mailing list is something very new for us.)\u00a0 Even though we have not yet reached out to our public mailing lists about this, this week we raised \u00a32,430<\/strong> and received pledges totalling another \u00a31,688<\/strong>, so well over \u00a34,000 in just 7 days.\u00a0 But that level of donations has to continue for a little while in order to restore some stablity and to ensure that we meet our spending commitments — which was not the case in early September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We missed last week’s update because I was getting married.\u00a0 We will probably miss next week’s too, as I’ll be on my honeymoon.\u00a0 But for now, here’s a short update of the highlights from the last two weeks: New campaign: We launched a major new campaign in support of garment workers in the Indian state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843"}],"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=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}