{"id":5002,"date":"2025-10-17T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:16:26","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-10-17-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5002","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 10 \u2013 17 October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5727-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5727-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5727-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5727.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lesotho campaign:<\/strong> We went live this week with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5727\">our new campaign in support of workers at Quantum Apparel<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 After less than 24 hours online, the campaign had <strong>1,317<\/strong> supporters and translations have already started coming in &#8212; with French and Chinese first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correspondents:<\/strong> We picked up three new correspondents this week from Bangladesh, Malaysia and Pakistan.\u00a0 We wrote to all our new correspondents who have not yet posted news, offering help, as we do every three months or so.\u00a0 The good news is the majority of new correspondents are posting news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Korea:<\/strong> We reached out to our Korean language mailing list to try to recruit helpers to translate our campaigns and mailings, and to post news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interns:<\/strong> The Global Labour University has reached out to us to take on another intern in 2026 and we are likely to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats:<\/strong> Finally, we checked how many visitors our main website has had since the beginning of the year (this does not include visitors to the campaigns site, which is hosted separately).\u00a0 The total is a healthy <strong>579,245<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesotho campaign: We went live this week with our new campaign in support of workers at Quantum Apparel.\u00a0 After less than 24 hours online, the campaign had 1,317 supporters and translations have already started coming in &#8212; with French and Chinese first. Correspondents: We picked up three new correspondents this week from Bangladesh, Malaysia and [&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\/5002"}],"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=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}