{"id":4950,"date":"2025-05-09T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:23:41","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-2-9-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4950","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart &#8211; 2 &#8211; 9 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Interns:<\/strong> We have now completed interviewing all 6 candidate interns from the Cornell ILR school; we will select 2 of them for fall internships next week.\u00a0 Thanks to Penny and Derek for helping to interview all the candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We reached out to our partners on the 4 active campaigns asking for updates that we can share. We&#8217;ve gotten two positive responses so far. This is important and we don&#8217;t always do this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem with reaching LabourStart from Google in the USA:<\/strong> Two intern candidates pointed this out, possibly after searching Google for &#8220;LaborStart&#8221;. We think we identified the problem and have fixed it, but if anyone still has difficulty, please let us know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong> Our lists grew by 44 this week, with the largest number for the Azerbaijani list. But most of those are people already on our Turkish list, so we probably shouldn&#8217;t have them on both lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada:<\/strong> We had a good meeting with the International Solidarity committee of the BCGEU.\u00a0 Thanks to Derek and Pat for playing an active part in this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USA:<\/strong> We reached out to the UFW offering help with a campaign, but have not yet heard back. The Solidarity Center did get back to us with a response to our offer to help them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interns: We have now completed interviewing all 6 candidate interns from the Cornell ILR school; we will select 2 of them for fall internships next week.\u00a0 Thanks to Penny and Derek for helping to interview all the candidates. Campaigns: We reached out to our partners on the 4 active campaigns asking for updates that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950"}],"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=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}