{"id":542,"date":"2009-08-14T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=542"},"modified":"2009-08-14T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T07:35:36","slug":"labourstart-conference-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart conference 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, LabourStart will be holding a small, invitation-only conference in Washington DC at the headquarters of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\">AFL-CIO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will take place over the course of three days and will involve participants from the USA. Canada, Trinidad &amp; Tobago, Australia, India, Finland, Switzerland and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be discussing a broad range of subjects including LabourStart&#8217;s news and campaigns, blogging, social networks (including UnionBook), podcasting, labour film festivals, labour book sales, union jobs boards, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping to blog about the conference as it happens here, and welcome all LabourStart correspondents to follow the blog and <strong>post your comments<\/strong>.\u00a0 We promise to read out some of the comments at the event, as if you were there, so this is a wonderful opportunity for you to be involved &#8212; even if you can&#8217;t be in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, LabourStart will be holding a small, invitation-only conference in Washington DC at the headquarters of the AFL-CIO. The conference will take place over the course of three days and will involve participants from the USA. Canada, Trinidad &amp; Tobago, Australia, India, Finland, Switzerland and the UK. We&#8217;ll be discussing a broad range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}