{"id":547,"date":"2009-08-17T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=547"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:34:29","slug":"afl-cio-president-john-sweeney-addresses-labourstart-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"AFL-CIO President John Sweeney addresses LabourStart conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tula Connell introduced President Sweeney.\u00a0 President Sweeney discussed the role LabourStart has provided for online labor news for the past ten years.\u00a0 The labor movement hopes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, hopes to pass health care legislation.\u00a0 LabourStart has helped the labor movement to provide new models to reach out to trade unionists and the American labor movement hopes to use the internet and these new technologies to reach out to new members and to spread the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tula Connell introduced President Sweeney.\u00a0 President Sweeney discussed the role LabourStart has provided for online labor news for the past ten years.\u00a0 The labor movement hopes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, hopes to pass health care legislation.\u00a0 LabourStart has helped the labor movement to provide new models to reach out to trade unionists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}